Terry Rush, Instrumental Music
Christians SPEAK that which was written FOR OUR LEARNING. That's a Direct Command, numerous examples TAUGHT free of charge called PARASITES. God is WORD in the same class as SPIRIT, LIGHT, LIFE. Spirit means that God put His WORDS into the MOUTH of Jesus. When Jesus spoke ONLY what God inspired Him to speak, the WORD as the FORM of God was made Audible. When Jesus left His Word in the hands of APOSTLES-ONLY, Jesus could say:
John 6:62 What and if ye shall see the SON OF MAN ascend up where he was before?
John 6:63 It is the SPIRIT that quickeneth;
the flesh profiteth nothing: [self-speaking which marks one as the Son of the Devil]
the WORDS that I SPEAK unto you,
they are SPIRIT, and they are life.
John 6:64 But there are some of you that believe not.
For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not,
and who should betray him.
John 6:65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you,
that no man can come unto me,
except it were given unto him of my Father.
John 6:44 No man can come to me,TERRY RUSH AND THOSE WHO HAVE INVENT A NEW WAY OF CHANGING SCRIPTURE TO FIT THE CULTURE DENY THAT.
except the Father which hath sent me draw him:
and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:45 It is written in the prophets,
And they shall be all taught of God. [Not Terry Rush or other NON believers]
Every man therefore that hath HEARD,
and hath learned of the Father,
COMETH unto me.
Acts 2:41 Then they that gladly RECEIVED his WORD were baptized:
and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
Acts 2:47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people.
And the Lord added to the CHURCH daily such as "were being" saved.
JESUS COMMANDED THAT CONVERTS BE TAUGHT AND OBSERVE WHAT HE TAUGHT. He Taught and perfected the PROPHETS and the PROPHETS are not on the THEOLOGIANS aganda and being IGNORANT lash out at those who can READ BLACK text on BROWN Paper.
JESUS SPOKE AND NEVER SANG OR PLAYED AN INSTRUMENT THE WORD, LOGOS OR REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE. Not available--for ever--to those who love their opinions more than God the WORD is:
Logos computation, reckoning 2. statement of a theory, argument, ouk emeu alla tou l. akousantas prob. in Heraclit.50; logon ēde noēma amphis alētheiēs discourse and reflection on reality,
IV. inward debate of the soul, reflection, deliberation
Regulative and formative forces, derived from the intelligible and operative in the sensible universe,
Opposite to epithumia
A. desire, yearning, longing after a thing, desire of or for it, Theaomai :--gaze at, behold, mostly with a sense of wonder, 3. view as spectators
Opposite Pathos A. that which happens to a person or thing, incident, accident, Moralizing Rhetoric
Opposite Poiein to excite passion, Arist.Rh.1418a12; V. Rhet., emotional style or treatment,
Opposite Enthousi-astikos , ē, on, A. inspired, “phusis” Pl.Ti.71e; esp. by music,
Prose, OPPOSITE -poięsis, Id.R.390a;
OPPOSITE -poiętikę, D.H.Comp.6; OPPOSITE poięmata, onomatopoeic word
OPPOSITE emmetra Modus 2. The measure of tones, measure, rhythm, melody, harmony, time; in poetry, measure, metre, mode:Mūsĭcus a, um, adj., = mousikos.
X. the Word or Wisdom of God, personified as his agent in creation and world-government,
Jesus SPOKE (only) what God put into His MOUTH (the meaning of SPIRIT without METRON or musical meter. There is noting tuneful up to and after John Calvin who allowed some Psalms to be REWRITTEN and set to a simple melody for unison singing.
Theologians are doomed to call God a liar or INCOMPETENT. If God had wanted any kind of music in the tuneful sense He was INTELLIGIBLE But denied by C. Leonard Allen.
mousikos kai melōn poētēs” 2. generally, votary of the Muses, The Muses were the LOCUSTS unleashed with Apollon their "musical worship leaders." The Greek and Latin literature identifies them as dirty adulteresses
Paul and everyone commanded TEACH the Word or "that which is written for our learning." The Psalms were not written for our SINGING but to make us LITERATE. ODE (enchantment or Sorcery) or PSALLO (making war or perverted love) are IN the Heart so that I cannot hear your lostness which would DISABLE my Learning.
http://www.piney.com/DocHesTheog.html
[25] the Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis: “Shepherds of the wilderness,
wretched things of shame, mere bellies,
we know how to speak many false things as though they were true;
but we know, when we will, to utter true things.”
...and they bade me sing of the race of the blessed gods that are eternally,
but ever to sing of themselves both first and last.
pharma^kon 3. enchanted potion, philtre: hence, charm, spell, Od.4.220 sq., Ar.Pl.302, [Circe, Church, Corinth mother of harlots] Theoc.2.15
The singers [Muses], instrument players and craftsmen as sorcerers in Revelation 18.
Terry Rush has an agenda to promote instrumental music. These are rough notes as a rebuttal to a forum promoting Terry Rush as a guide into the future: we will add more rebuttal in time. I will add links to the Greek and Latin literature which you can read or ignore. To begin, let me challenge you to find any "religious practice" in the ancient world which did not function as witchcraft to get people aroused to believe a lie and be damned. Furthermore, I challlenge you to find any history which does not MARK gender confused males performing religious music. Therefore, to impose music contrary to all known evidence is using the "law of silence" which gives the individual the right to speak where God has been silent; and to make that opinion into a law which you should not reject for fear of being branded. Here is Terry's views which represents those of many at the preacher level. I have emphasized some of it and will discuss it but not before some general background missising at the preacher level.
The Disciples/Christian Church first proposed that 'psallo' MEANS to make music with an instrument when it never means more than pluck with your fingers and NEVER with a plectrum. In fact, if you used this folly and make melody with anything but a fingered string you VIOLATE their direct command and are a divisive sinner.
There are many instances where the fall into the use of instruments told God to stop speaking to them. This is a sin without redemption.
- They also claimed that God COMMANDED instrumental music in worship in the Old Telstament. Now, they say that if you do NOT then you are disobedient.
- There is no evidence that God commanded any kind of "musical" device at any time or place even when He abandoned them to worship the starry host because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai which was a terminal sin.
- If God did not command musical instruments then The Holy Spirit of Christ in Jeremiah 23 says that you blaspheme the Holy Spirit.
No one can read the Old Testament without understand that David radically changed the roles of the Levites from servants into linen-wearing musicians: God did not do that. Christ in Ezekiel insists that David's demoting the Zadok priesthood was when the Levites Went Astray.
See How David was chosen to carry out the captivity and death sentence imposed at Mount Sinai and began when the elders fired God and demanded a "senior pastor" to let them worship like the nations.
3.01.11 See the latest Tulsa Workshop 2011: Terry Rush quotes Edward Fudge who rejoices that the "bait and switch" to a UNITY forum with the NACC. We have linked to Exodus 32 and Deuteronomy which proves that MUSICAL IDOLATRY at Mount Sinai was the PATTERNISM for people who so insult the nature of a Spirit God that they are WRITTEN OUT of His book of life.3.11.11 Logos versus Mythos: Word versus Music Logos (modern) is rational of the word and STRAIGHT: Mythos and Sophia (postmodern) are irrational and Gender-Confused. Mythos Nomoi (traditional law)
(a) Eros is approved, and its excesses condoned, when directed towards superior youths approaching manhood.Those who willingly infiltrate and impose musical instruments into a peaceable church justify the deliberate sowing of discord based on false teachings of all of the "instrument" passages also preach that GRACE will cover them.
(b) It appears to be condemned, in so far as parents forbid their boys to hold converse with “erastae.” The explanation of this ambiguous attitude must be sought in the principle laid down above, that the moral quality of an act depends upon the conditions of its performance.
GRACE is Kharizo 2. gratify or indulge a humour or passion, 3. in erotic sense, grant favours to a man,
give up as a favour by dropping a law aimed at him,
Grace Centered Magazine: 3.06.11. This forum has a Church of Christ thread dedicated to abusing those who do not deliberately reject the clear teaching of the Word and recorded history. A common lie is that the Church Fathers had nothing bad to say about the use of instruments based on Scripture. We have refuted that to prove that NO ONE used instruments in the churches but refute the Jews who did because they had been abandoned to Canaanite Baalism or the worship of the starry host.
See Jay Guin Review for the list of New Wineskins papers.
1.04.11
Christ the Spirit spoke through the Prophets
Jesus of Nazareth made these prophecies more perfect
Jesus said "my WORDS are Spirit and Life."
To speak out of your own imagination while pretending to speak for Christ is defined as blasphemy.
Revised 1.02.2010
Terry Rush: Our people are so tied up in knots trying to sort through the church lingo that many have all but given up on sharing the good news with their neighbor because they can't keep the story straight.
All know God is against man-made doctrine, yet we've accepted with open arms this Trojan horse. Enormous strain develops in trying to assure ourselves that much of our doctrine did not come from man but from God Himself.
As far as evangelistic effectiveness is concerned, we live in fundamental neutral. How can we remember how it goes
when the Word really isn't there to show our neighbor?
Dogma is the Greek Autonomia or Self made laws: 3. dogmatism it includes POETRY poi-etikos or poetic license. AW.A. freedom to use its own laws, independence,
DOGMATIC IN CHURCH means self-composed sermons almost never teaching "that which has been taught" or self-composed silly ditties violating the command to use "that which is written" Paul defines as Scripture
Dogma is: Poi-etikos 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: [Grace] In erotic sense, grant favors, to a man, comedy, gratify or indulge a humor of passion. Give up as a favor by dropping a law aimed at him,
Autonomia is used with: theor-etikos A.able to perceive, 2. of the mind, contemplative, speculative, Philosophy i. e. one who speculates on truth and reality, 2. of arguments, sciences, etc., scientific, philosophic, Has the meaning of Voluntarius I. willing, of his or its own free-will, voluntary.
Terry Rush: 1. Our hermeneutic is made up: Man created it to claim the texts he wanted and to somehow dismiss those he doesn't. Hermeneutic is not a biblical term and was never taught by God.
Peter in 2 Peter 1 outlaws private interpretation which means "further expounding." That is because the Bible as our left "memory" was inspired by eye and ear witnesses and because in 2 Peter 2 it is the MARK of a false teacher. Jesus called the MEN of that time CHILDREN who piped hoping to get others to sing and dance the perverted, new wineskin initiation of Dionysus or Orpheus.
Hermaęneuô [hermęneus]Terry Rush: The "Direct Command", "Example", and "Necessary Inference" passages seem to have melted.
I. to interpret foreign tongues,
II. to interpret, put into words, give utterance to, Thuc., etc.
2. to explain,
Hermęs Hermes, the Lat. Mercurius, son of Maia and Zeus; messenger of the gods (diaktoros); giver of good luck (eriounios, akakęta ); god of all secret dealings, cunning, and stratagem (dolios); bearing a golden rod (chrusorrapis ); conductor of defunct spirits (psuchopompos, pompaios ); tutelary god of all arts, of traffic, markets, roads (agoraios, empolaios, hodios, enodios ), and of heralds. His bust, mounted on a four-cornered pillar, was used to mark boundaries. --Proverb., koinos Hermęs shares in your luck! [And your body] Theophr.: cf. hermaion.
Diglôssos , Att. di-ttos , on, speaking two languages,, diglôssos, ho, interpreter,
II. double-tongued, deceitful, LXXSi.5.9, al.
Hupophętęs , ou, ho, ( [phęmi] ) suggester, interpreter, expounder, esp. of the divine will or judgement, e.g. priest who declares an oracle, Il.16.235; Mousaôn [Rev 18:22] hupophętai, i.e. poets,
Mousa , The nine muses, music, song playing the lyre or harp, liberal arts, accomplishments
Sophocles, Trachiniae
for you the sound of the sweet-voiced flute
will soon arise, and not with a cry
of grating agony, but
with the lyrical tones of sacred song!
For the child of Alcména, Zeus's son,
is speeding his way toward home, and bringing
trophies of might and valor.
Pi.N.3.28; Pindar, Nemean 3.[22] which that hero and god set up as famous witnesses to the furthest limits of seafaring. He subdued the monstrous beasts in the sea, and tracked to the very end the streams of the shallows, [25] where he reached the goal that sent him back home again, and he made the land known. My spirit, towards what foreign headland are you turning my voyage? I bid you to summon the Muse in honor of Aeacus and his race; consummate justice attends the precept, “praise the noble.” [30] And no man should prefer to desire what is alien. Search at home; you have won a suitable adornment for singing something sweet. Among old examples of excellence is king Peleus, who rejoiced when he cut a matchless spear, and who alone, without an army, captured Iolcus,
Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1298
SPARTANS
SPARTANS.
Piper, gie us the music for a new sang.
Leaving again lovely lofty Taygetus
Hither O Spartan Muse, hither to greet us,
And wi' our choric voice to raise
To Amyclean Apollo praise, [Abaddon, Apollyon]
And Tyndareus' gallant sons whose days
Alang Eurotas' banks merrily pass,
An' Athene o' the House o' Brass.
Now the dance begin;
Dance, making swirl your fringe o' woolly skin,
While we join voices
To hymn dear Sparta that rejoices
I' a beautifu' sang,
An' loves to see
Dancers tangled beautifully;
For the girls i' tumbled ranks
Alang Eurotas' banks
Like wanton fillies thrang,
Frolicking there
An' like Bacchantes shaking the wild air
To comb a giddy laughter through the hair,
Bacchantes that clench thyrsi as they sweep
To the ecstatic leap.
An' Helen, Child o' Leda, come
Thou holy, nimble, gracefu' Queen,
Lead thou the dance, gather thy joyous tresses up i' bands
An' play like a fawn. To madden them, clap thy hands,
And sing praise to the warrior goddess templed i' our lands,
Her o' the House o' Brass.
Look at it. Necessary Inference? That's what man does to get his way when the Bible won't back it. One can claim, "Well, at least it's inferred."
Terry Rush has asked for and been granted Strong Delusions. He believes His own false teaching and, being OF the World, cannot HEAR the Word in the PAGES because He has not requested A holy Spirit or A good conscience.
You might be interested that God, all historic scholars and founders of denominations PERMITTED God to command, example and inferences. A believer cannot INFER the use of music when God has EXCLUDED it.
Terry Rush: 2. Our stance on instrumental music is wrong: Man created this doctrine which makes it a toughy if we are going to share the true doctrine with our neighbors.
Instrumental music was not an issue in the first century church because it wasn't an issue with God. Instuments of worship are not new. They were abundantly available back in Jesus and Paul's day.
If you can read BLACK text on BROWN Paper you can hear a universal demand to put down the performers BEFORE you can hold ekklesia or School of the Bible.
Terry missed the old testament. After the fall from grace because of musical idolatry, Christ ordained the Qahal, synagogue or Church in the wilderness.
It was INCLUSIVE of Rest, Reading and Rehearsing the Word of God.
It was EXCLUSIVE of vocal or instrumental rejoicing.
See how the Church or Synagogue existed in its pre-kingdom period to quarantine the godly from music and elevated forms of speech.
Terry Rush:Did they not pick up on this potential threat and address it....at least once?
As a matter of fact it was prophecied and attempted that Judas would musically try to triumph over Jesus to put Him to silence. See how the Dead Sea Version of Psalm 41 makes it clear that instruments are weapons used even against God.
So, do you not think it odd that such an element is present at the time of the N.T. writings, yet they never discussed it? Were they afraid to? Didn't they have some crossover issues from the old covenant to the new? It could be this was not an issue then and they didn't expect to be now.
JEWS WHO HAD NOT BEEN ABANDONED ATTENDED SYNAGOGUE. There is not a single Command, Example or Remote Inference that anyone every assembled on their day or REST to be lead in singing with our wiithout instruments.
One of the many Terry Rush Converts
Jay.Guin.1.Corinthians.10.5.Falling.Away
1Cor. 10:5 But with many of them God was not well pleased:
for they were overthrown in the wilderness.1Cor. 10:6 Now these things were our examples,
to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
tup-oō , A.form by impress, receive a form, be modelled,
III. ordain, decree,
IV. execute in due form,
epistol-ē , hē, (epistellō) A.anything sent by a messenger, message, order, commission, whether verbal or in writing ex epistolēs by command, like grammata,Tup-os u^, ho, (tuptō) IX. prescribed form, model to be imitated, 2. general instruction, b. rule of life, religion,1Cor. 10:7 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.
Probably simple simon understood that THEY didn't attend any sacrifical slaughter where music was to "make the lambs dumb before the slaughter." They attended synagogue and from a life of hearing PREACHING which meant READING the Word each rest day, they would understand that musical noises were outlawed.See Jay Guin's use of the PATTERN in dancing in worship.paizō , 2. esp. dance, “paisate” Od.8.251; “dōma peristenakhizeto possin andrōn paizontōn” 23.147, cf. Hes.Sc.277; “p. te kai khoreuein” Ar.Ra.409, cf. 390; “enoplia khalkōtheis epaizen” Pi.O.13.86:—Pass., alla pepaistai metriōs hēmin, of the chorus, Ar. Th.1227.
Their rising up AGAINST god and dancing included:
4. play on a musical instrument, h.Ap.206: c. acc., “Pan ho kalamophthogga paizōn” Ar.Ra.230; dance and sing, Pi. O.1.16.They worshipped the Stary Host and that is why God turned them over to worship the HOST of heaven including Abaddon or Apollon leader of the MUSES.
Paul wrote Romans 1 to define the MARK and CAUSE of sexual perversion stimulated by music.
6. hunt, pursue game, “p. kat' alsos” S. El.567.
Ludo —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: “talia fumosi luduntur mense Decembri,” Ov. Tr. 2, 491: “quod tenerae cantent, lusit tua musa, puellae,” id. Am. 3, 1, 27: “coloni Versibus incomptis ludunt,” Verg. G. 2, 386: “carmina pastorum,” id. ib. 4, 565; Suet. Ner. 3: “si quid vacui sub umbra Lusimus tecum,” Hor. C. 1, 22, 2.—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.—
Furthermore, they knew that religious music was the arena of the prostitute or sodomite as clergy in the pagan religions. Jesus cast out the musical minstrels "like dung" and consigned the pipers, singers and instrument players to the marketplace along with the other pollutants.
See the Agora or Marketplace.
Terry Rush: 3. Authority of Silence of the Scriptures is surely created by man. It seems very important to some as this guides their doctrinal stances.
Where does the Word address it? I believe argumentative Christians
made this one up to get their way when they couldn't get it any other.
Those who stick by their guns on this one abandon it quickly
when it comes to justifying the millions they spend on church buildings....of which the Word is silent
That's true but God was not silent about musical instruments as a mark of all of the enemies of Christ or the Logos or Word. Beginning with Lucifer as the singing and harp-playinng prostitute in the garden of Eden, up to the Babylon mother of harlots (Rev 17) who used the lusted after FRUITS (same ones Amos warned about) as speakers, singers and instrument players, they are called SORCERERS (Rev 18).
The SILENCE patternism was invented by the Disciples: because God hath not commanded THOU SHALT NOT USE INSTRUMENTS they had the liberty to IMPOSE instruments and YOU did not have the right to resist.
We would expect those views to come from a musical worship merchant but that preachers can float upward without having the Biblical or historical background should cause us to worry. But, not if we have read either the Bible or church history. Perhaps those defending legalistic machine worship are tied up in knots because they have been outed. For instance, representing universal history of religious music:
WAS GOD IN CHRIST DUMBER THAN THE COMMON GRADE HUCKSTER?
Aristotle on Politics 1339a and ALL of recorded history agrees:
Hence our predecessors included music in education not as a necessity (for there is nothing necessary about, nor as useful (in the way in which reading and writing are useful for business and for household management and for acquiring learning and for many pursuits of civil life (for we do not see either of these things produced as a result of music);
it remains therefore that it is useful as a pastime in leisure, which is evidently the purpose for which people actually introduce it, for they rank it as a form of pastime that they think proper for free men.
1. for amusement and relaxation, as one indulges in sleep and deep drinking (for these in themselves are not serious pursuits but merely pleasant, and 'relax our care,' as Euripides says;
2. or whether we ought rather to think that music tends in some degree to virtueowing to which people actually class music with them and (sleep and deep drinking) employ all of these things,
..........sleep, deep drinking and music, in the same way,
......... and they also place dancing in the same class); (Aristotle isn't kind)
(music being capable of producing a certain quality of character
just as gymnastics are capable of producing a certain quality of body,
music accustoming men to be able to rejoice rightly);
3. or that it contributes something to intellectual entertainment and culture
(for this must be set down as a third alternative among those mentioned).
Now it is not difficult to see that one must not make amusement the object of the education of the young;
for amusement does not go with learning--learning is a painful process."And we may consider the conception that we have about the gods:
Zeus does not sing and harp to the poets himself.
But professional musicians we speak of as vulgar people, and indeed
we think it not manly to perform music, except when drunk or for fun.And the usual contempt for the audience (congregation).
For I have to pay the closest attention to them;
Terry Rush says of all non-instrumental Churches of Christ:
since, if I set them crying, I shall laugh myself because of the money I take,
but if they laugh, I myself shall cry because of the money I lose.
That's kinda true: the Disciples of Christ first claimed the Law of Silence to PERMIT adding something not commaned and known to sow discord.
- We cannot keep our story straight and use up all of our energy.
- Our hermeneutic is made up.
- Our stance on instrumental music is wrong.
- Authority or Silence of Scriptures is surely created by man.
You don't need to be legalistis to just obey the direct commands of Christ who is NEVER silen.
If Scripture no longer has any authority then assuredly we should quit paying people for claiming to be "gospel preachers." It is a fact that those who have denied that there is any evidence for against instruments at the same time claim that in this "postmodern" age there is no such thing as truth. Therefore, this review which answers all of the sowers of discord is based on the thesis that the Bible is the only resource to justify being A Church of Christ.
See Ronnie Norman First Colony Church: The SHEPHERDING MOVEMENT from Promise Keepers etal.
No one in history thought that melody or the Greek Psallo had any musical meaning but was used as late as 1878 by the Disciples of Christ.
ALL of the proof-texts used by the NACC agents using psallo to authorize diverting peaceable churches identify older males plucking the harp in order to seduce a young man whose hairs had been "plucked" and been emasculated.
The primary meaning of psallo connects to warfare and Apollo or the Apollyon of Revelation who uses the Muses (prostitutes) as his musical worship team. The second major connection is to MARK those who dallied in the marketplace where Jesus consigned the pipers, singers and dancer. The polluted rope twitched them so they would be MARKED when they were forced to the ekklesia for verbal instruction only. Click for the polluted message of psallo.
Only in an metaphorical sense is Psallo used of "shooting fortth hymns."
The latest ploy--100 years later after the Churches of Christ refused to be counted as part of the "organ and society party" a new effort is based on the claim that "God commanded instrumental praise and we should not be disobedient." This is within the context that simple singing is NOT WRONG.
It is probably true that no one on the discording preacher level knows that Israel fell from Grace because of Musical idolatry and the monarchy, king, temple and sacrificial system is explained by Stephen as "God turned them over to worship the starry host." We know that the fatal blow was when the tribal elders fired God and demanded a central king "like the nations." God understood that to mean "so we can worship like the nations." That is why He gave them kings in His anger and took the away in His anger.
The next First Principle is that throughout the Old Testament and confirmed in the new is that the Spirit OF Christ spoke through the prophets. The prophets -- and therefore the Christ of God -- were hostile to the kingly-priestly religion and most of those prophets utterly repudiate any kind of music as the work of "hypocrites" in the employ of a national sacrificial system quite identical to that of Babylon and Egypt.
The problem is derived from a new attempt to bond the Old and New Testament as equal in authority for faith and practice. If so, the best place to begin is to listen to a tiny sample of the universal condemnation of the monarchy as "an experiment in the idolatry of nationhood" which God warned woud impose slavery and destruction.
EDWARD FUDGE'S COMMENTS
Because Edward Fudge promotes the false dogma of "musical worship" in the templeand under the Monarchy, any clearing up of the almost total "knowledge base" at the preacher levea, we quote giving false assurance to an honest seeker. Here is why I have chosen Terry Rush's review to do some background which was missed in Acts 7 when Stephen got killed for telling the clergy that it was BECAUSE of musical idolatry that God turned them over to worship the starry hosts.
"For many of us, however, unaccompanied singing is a tradition, not a matter of scriptural requirement. The earliest Jewish believers in Jesus continued to worship in the Temple (Acts 2:46; 3:1), where instruments were used. The New Testament endorses the singing of Psalms (Eph. 5:19), which call for instruments of all sorts and kinds (Psalm 92:1-4; 150:3-5). The very word translated "Psalm" originally meant a song sung with a stringed instrument. It later included an unaccompanied song, but it kept its original meaning as well. Revelation, though symbolic, pictures harps in heavenly worship (Rev. 14:2-3).
It is a historical fact that singing as an ACT was added and caused discord as late as ad 373. This was added because the Syriac Bishop wanted to impose his own "psalms" on the church. McClintock and Strong says that the musical precentor was "the first heresy largely pervading the church." Therefore, the question is how musical can you get without violating the direct commands to speak the Word of God with one mind and one mouth.
As far as I can confirm from David Lipscomb's statement: "No one in history prior to 1878 ever tried to prove that psallo had any musical worship connection to the church." The Disciples became a MUSICAL sect and became the EXCEPTION to the rule. Something consistent with direct commands and historical precident can hardly be slandered off as "just our tradition." Not even Jesus could enter into the covered spaces of the temple.
2411. hieron, hee-er-on´; neuter of 2413; a sacred place, i.e. the entire precincts (whereas 3485 denotes the central sanctuary itself) of the Temple (at Jerusalem or elsewhere): -- temple.Edward will find no historical scholarship which does not connect all musical practices to the paganism to which God abandoned the ELITE of Israel because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. Indeed, at the preaching level which has rejected "teaching the word as it has been taught" there is no reason to expect that they would know the facts. For that reason it is extremely dangerous to listen to people twist the Scriptures ENDORSING the deliberate sowing of Discord. Click to read about the Fall from Grace at Mount Sinai.
The Sacrificial system had officially ended shortly after the Return and the synagogue organized as the Church in the Wilderness continued and the temple became a pagan worship center. The temple was HEROD'S temple and the clergy were hired hands mostly Edomites of the Shaggy Goats Daniel warned about.
Jesus never entered into the temple which would have gotten Him executes. No Levitical singer cound enter into the Temple without getting murdered. The Holy Place as a type of the body or Church of Christ was OFF LIMITS to singers and instrument players.
Paul used the word SPEAK in relationship to the PSALMS and SPEAK was defined as the "opposite of poetry or music." The Psalms were not metrical and you could NOT sing them tunefully if your life depended on it. Only 50 of the Psalms were MIZMORS available to the common people and NONE of these speak of an instrument.
No one PLAYS harps in Revelation: all of the SOUNDS LIKE speak of warning and panic created by warfare.
And I heard a voice from heavenALL OF THESE ARE THE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF CHURCH BECOMING A THEATER FOR ENTERTAINMENT WHICH IS MAKING WAR AGAINST GOD:
..........like the sound of many waters and
..........like the sound of loud thunder; the voice I heard was
..........like the sound of harpers playing on their harps Revelation 14:2RSV
When you HEAR these warning SOUNDS where they are also AUDIBLE it is a final warning IF you are literally and spiritually still alive:
And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven,
Saying [not singing] with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him;
..........having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth,
..........and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, Rev 14:6
..........for the hour of his judgment is come:
..........and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea,
..........and the fountains of waters. Rev 14:7
1Cor. 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbalSounding: 2278. echeo, ay-kheh´-o; from 2279; to make a loud noise, i.e. reverberate: roar, sound.
2279. echos, ay´-khos; of uncertain affinity; a loud or confused noise (“echo”), i.e. roar; figuratively, a rumor: -- fame, sound.
Brass: 5475. chalkos, khal-kos´; perhaps from 5465 through the idea of hollowing out as a vessel (this metal being chiefly used for that purpose); copper (the substance, or some implement or coin made of it): -- brass, money.The SERIVCE of the Levitical musicians meant "hard bondage" with the same meaing as Abaddon or Apollyon in Revelation. They made WAR and would never be permitted to perform in the Qahal, synagogue or "church in the wilderness."Echeion ( [ęchos] ) drum, gong, .; tambourine, as head-dress, Herm.Trism.in Rev.Phil.32.254; used for stage-thunder, Sch.Ar. Nu.292; as sounding-boards in the theatre, Vitr.5.5.2.
II. in the lyre, = chalkôma, apptly. a metallic sounding-plate, Hsch.; so of the palate, Gal.UP7.5.
Organon, 3. musical instrument, Simon.31, f.l. in A.Fr.57.1 ; ho men di' organôn ekęlei anthrôpous, of Marsyas, Pl.Smp.215c ; aneu organôn psilois logois. poluchorda ; met' ôidęs kai tinôn organôn Phld.Mus.p.98K. ; of the pipe
2. Adj. ęcheion organon sounding instrument, Ph.1.588, cj.ib.444,510.
Jubal "handled" these instruments meaning "without authority."Erganon 1 [*ergô] I. an organ, instrument, tool, for making or doing a thing, --of a person, hapantôn aei kakôn org. Soph.2. an organ of sense, Plat. 3. a musical instrument, II. a work, product,
Ergon [Ergô] I.work, 1. in Il. mostly of deeds of war, polemęďa erga, 3. ard piece of work, a hard task, Il.: also, a shocking deed or act
Orgi-azô , A. celebrate orgia, E.Ba.415 (lyr.), etc.: c. acc., o. teletęn Pl.Phdr.250c ; hiera Id.Lg.910c; thusias, pompas, choreias Plu.Num.8 : c. dat., pay ritual service to a god or goddess, tautęi Str.10.3.12 :--so in Med., orgiazesthai daimosi, orgia Mousôn
Alalazo 2. generally, cry, shout aloud, Pi.l.c., E.El.855; esp. in orgiastic rites, A.Fr.57; of Bacchus and Bacchae, E.Ba.593 sound loudly, psalmos d'alalazei A.Fr.57 ; kumbalon alalazon1 Ep.Cor.13.1
Mk 5:38 And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly
Nahum 3:[4]WEB because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.
The Latin maleficia is maleficium 1. Fraud, deception, adulteration 4 A hired mourner: The "prćficć" were the women who chanted the "nćnia" .
Praeficae Women who were hired to act as mourners at Roman funerals (Plaut. Truc.ii. 6 Truc., 14). They went before the corpse, with their heads bared, their locks disheveled, uttering cries of lamentation and chanting dirges (neniae)
It is fitting that the end time religion is the same as the beginning with false teachers bringing you under bondage with clergy musicians.
It is fulfilment of prophecy that when people reject the Word of God they are sent a strong delusion and cannot see the repudiation of music trying to worship a Spirit God from the "singing and harp playing prostitute" in the garden of Eden to the mother of harlots (Rev 17) who USES "lusted after fruits" as rhetoricians, singers and instrument players whom John called sorcerers.
Israel fell fatally from Grace because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai.
- As a Covenant of Grace God gave The Book of the Covenant to govern the nation.
- 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 Levi and not specificially ordained could COME NEAR the Tabernacle without sinning.
Because the false teachers REST on the curse of the Law and the Monarchy, the elders, preachers and artistic performers would die if they ventured in or near the area of animal slaughter.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. [never IN]
Furthermore, 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 sanctury or they would be executed. The patternism is that if a musician enters into the body of Christ as fulfilment of the Holy Place he / she / it is worthy of death.
H8334 sharath 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.Nadab and Abihu violates several commandments.
All of the non-Levites were called STRANGERS: therefore, if you were not of the tribe of Levi with the assignment to serve you could not even minister to the priests outside of the Temple-proper. Therefore, no member of the "church" could come near the Tabernacle and none of the "ministers" could ENTER it.
"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 [hard, legalistic bondage] of the tabernacle:
and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.The sacrificial system was NEVER the spiritual worship but part of the WRATH DISPELLING curse imposed because of Musical idolatry.
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's 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
That also removes any modern cleric from imposing the tithe.
H5656 ‛abodah ‛abodoh ab-o-daw', ab-o-daw' From H5647 ; work of any kind:--act, bondage, + bondservant, effect, labour, ministering (-try),
H5647 ‛abad 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 MEANING OF PARASITES MARKED BY THE PROPHETS BY THE SPIRITOF CHRIST
Because God had abandoned Israel to "worship the starry hosts" we understand that the Levites became a burden and not a blessing to the nation.
Parasītus (parasitos, “table companion”). A word which among the Greeks denoted originally the priest's assistant, who, like the priest, received his support from the offerings made to the temple, in return for certain services. These services included the collection and care of supplies of corn due to the temple, assistance at certain sacrifices, and the preparation of the banquets connected with[p. 1175] certain festivals. The assistants of civil officials, who were maintained at the expense of the State, were also called parasites in many places. The word received another meaning in the Middle and New Greek comedy, where it means the hanger on, who plays the flatterer and buffoon, with a view to getting invited to dinner. The parasite was transferred as a standing character to the Roman imitations of Greek comedy, and figures largely in the plays of Plautus. Good examples of the stage parasite will be found in his Captivi Menaechmi Phormio of Terence. See Know, Die Parasiten bei den Griechen and in the (1876). and A.one who eats at the table of another, and repays him with flattery and buffoonery, parasite, Epich.36, Arar.16, etc.; name of plays by Antiph., Alex., and Diph.; peri Parasitou, title of work by Luc.: c. gen., kenęs p. trapezęs [MONEY CHANGING TABLE] AP11.346 (Autom.) : metaph., ichthusęn p. (v. opson) Luc.Lex.6. Parasitus Phoebi, a player
knikos , ę, on, ( [kuôn] ) dog-like, X.Cyr.5.2.17 (v.l. for huďkon); to k. kai thęriôdes tôn orexeôn Plu.2.133b ; k. spasmos unilateral facial paralysis, Cels.4.3.1, Gal.18(2).930; k. kaumata heat of the dogdays, Polyaen.2.30.3: metaph., ho anthrôpos k. currish, churlish, Vulgate 1 Sa 25.3 (?). Adv. -kôs, spômenoi Heliod. ap. Orib.48.38 tit.; in doglanguage, opp. boďkôs, etc., Porph.Abst.3.3
1Sam. 25:3 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.
5037. Nabal, naw-bawl´; the same as 5036; dolt; Nabal, an Israelite:Nabal.
5036. nabal, naw-bawl´; from 5034; stupid; wicked (especially impious): fool(-ish, -ish man, -ish woman), vile person.
5035. nebel, 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.II. Kunikos, ho, Cynic, as the followers of the philosopher Antisthenes were called, from the gymnasium ([Kunosarges] ) where he taught, D.L.6.13; or from their resemblance to dogs in several respects, Diog.Cyn. ap. eund.6.60, Metrod.16, Polystr.p.20 W., Elias in Cat.111.2, etc.; Kratęti tôi k. Men.117 ; k. hairesis, askęsis, philosophia, Ph.1.352, J.AJ6.13.6, Jul.Or.6.187a; parręsia k. Plu.2.69c ; to k. tęs parręsias Id.Brut. 34 . Adv. Comp. -ôteron Id.2.601e.
II. of priests who had their meals at the public expense, Clitodem.11, Polem.Hist.78
2. one who dines with a superior officer, Arist.Fr.551.The common people and the prophets knew the facts:
Ezek 22:27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves [YELLOW] ravening the prey, o shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
Zeph. 3:3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
XLII. Instead of herds of oxen, endeavor to assemble flocks of friends about your house.
XLII As a wolf resembles a dog, so much does a flatterer, an adulterer, a parasite, resemble a friend. Take heed, therefore, that instead of guardian dogs, you do not inadvertently admit ravening wolves.
[All musicians were also called PARASITES and not allowed to feed on polite society]
The Deipnosophists of Athenaeus of Naucratis Book XIII: Concerning Women
"Hear, ye Styacs, vendors of twaddle, hypocritical mouthers of words who alone by yourselves gobble up everything on the platters before a wise man can get a share, and then are caught doing the very opposite of what you solemnly chant;" oglers of boys you are, and in that alone emulating the founder of your philosophy, Zeno the Phoenician, who never resorted to a woman, but always to boy-favourites.
Bdellolarunx, leech-throat, name for a greedy parasite
Mark 13:14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:
Bdelugma (g946) bdel'-oog-mah; from 948; a detestation, i.e. (spec.) idolatry: - abomination.
And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lambs book of life. Rev 21:27
Bdeluktos (g947) bdel-ook-tos'; from 948; detestable, i.e. (spec.) idolatrous: - abominable.
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. Tit.1:16
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Re.21:8
Rev. 18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
Rev. 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries [pharmakeia] were all nations deceived.
It is like an addiction. In fact, the mechanism of sacred violence is similar to taking drugs. The Greek word, pharmakos, that we might best translate as "scapegoat" (because it designated one who was expelled from the community), is obviously related to the Greek word for "drug," pharmakon.
The idea is the same behind both. A drug is a poison that, given the right circumstance and precisely the right dosage, can also be a remedy. Sacred violence is a violence -- and violence is ordinarily poisonous to us -- that, given the right circumstance and precisely the right dosage, can also be a remedy against 'bad' mimetic violence.
Yet addiction builds as the system builds immunity to the drug. Addiction to sacred violence can escalate as the Gospel immunity to it builds within our systems. René Girard
See 2 Maccabees to understand the males made into prostitutes for the temple.
1 Macc 1: 47 - to build altars and sacred precincts and shrines for idols (Dionysus), to sacrifice swine and unclean animals,
48 - and to leave their sons uncircumcised. They were to make themselves abominable by everything unclean and profane,
54 - Now on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in the one hundred and forty-fifth year,
they erected a desolating sacrilege upon the altar of burnt offering.
They also built altars in the surrounding cities of Judah,Notice in verse 59 that this desolating sacrilege could be another altar placed upon the regular altar for burnt offerings.
Bdelug-mos A. abomination, LXX 1 Ki.25.31, Na.3.6.Of Dancing by the prophets of Jezebel:
"It was probably usual to welcome a king or general with music and dancing...The distinctly religious dance is more frequently mentioned. The clear instances of it in the Bible are the dance of the women of Israel at the Red Sea, headed by Miriam with her tambourine (Exodus 15:20); the dance of the Israelites round the golden calf (Exodus 32:19); the dance of the maidens of Shiloah at the annual feast (Judges 21:19 ff);the leaping or limping of the prophets of Baal round their altar on Carmel (1 Kings 18:26); and the dancing of David in front of the ark (2 Samuel 6:14-16) (Int. Std. Bible Ency., p. 1169-70)
Nahum 3:[4]WEB because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.
Kesheph (h3785) keh'-shef; from 3784; magic: - sorcery, witchcraft.
Kashaph (h3784) kaw-shaf'; a prim. root; prop. to whisper a spell, i. e. to inchant or practise magic: - sorcerer, (use) witch (-craft).
They were the SERPENTS: 5175. nachash, naw-khawsh´; from 5172; a snake (from its hiss):—serpent.
5172 Nachash, naw-khash´; a primitive root; properly, to hiss, i.e. whisper a (magic) spell; generally, to prognosticate:—x certainly, divine, enchanter, (use) x enchantment, learn by experience, x indeed, diligently observe.This word connects directly to copery bell metal and to the flute:
Rev. 18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
Rev. 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Rev. 18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.The Latin maleficia is maleficium 1. Fraud, deception, adulteration 4 A hired mourner: The "prćficć" were the women who chanted the "nćnia" .
Praeficae Women who were hired to act as mourners at Roman funerals (Plaut. Truc.ii. 6 Truc., 14). They went before the corpse, with their heads bared, their locks disheveled, uttering cries of lamentation and chanting dirges (neniae)
Nahum 3:5 Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame
Nahum 3:[6]WEB I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.
Nahum 3:[6]WEB et proiciam super te abominationes et contumeliis te adficiam et ponam te in exemplum
Paul in Acts 20 warned about the elders who were WOLVES: they are specificially identified by letting in the rhetoricians, singers and musicians which is noted as a LUST to be a hermaphroditeHeb 10:33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
G2301 theatrizo theh-at-rid'-zo From G2302 ; to expose as a spectacle:--make a gazing stock.
Gregory Nazianzen Mark of the pipers, singers and dancers Jesus cosigned to the marketplace.
For what they worship as true, they veil as mythical. But if these things are true, they ought not to be called myths, but to be proved not to be shameful; and if they are false, they ought not to be objects of wonder; nor ought people so inconsiderately to hold the most contrary opinions about the same thing, as if they were playing in the market-place with boys or really ill-disposed men, not engaged in discussion with men of sense, and worshippers of the Word, though despisers of this artificial plausibility..... Nor is our commemoration one of Dionysus, and the thigh that travailed with an incomplete birth, as before a head had travailed with another;13 nor of the hermaphrodite god, nor a chorus of the drunken and enervated host; nor of the folly of the Thebans which honours him; nor the thunderbolt of Semele which they adore. Nor is it the harlot mysteries of Aphrodite, [ZOE] who, as they themselves admit, was basely born and basely honoured; nor have we here Phalli and Ithyphalli,See how MEN Jesus compared to CHILDREN have turned "school of the Bible" to a polluted marketplace.
The sacrificial system was imposed on the Levites as a curse or burden.
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
To intrude into any departments of the sacred office, should incur the penalty of death. ROBERT JAMIESONNum 18:4 And they shall be joined unto thee,
and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation,
for all the service [hard, legalistic bondage] of the tabernacle:
and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.The sacrificial system was NEVER the spiritual worship but part of the WRATH DISPELLING curse imposed because of Musical idolatry.
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.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel;
Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. Jeremiah 7:21
For I spake NOT unto your fathers, nor commanded them I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Amos 5:21 in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: Jeremiah 7:22Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. Amos 5:22
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs;
for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. Amos 5:23BUT this thing commanded I them, saying,
Obey my voice, and I will be your God,
and ye shall be my people:
and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. Jeremiah 7:23BUT let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream Amos 5:24
Amos 5:25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?BUT they HEARKENED NOT, nor inclined their ear,
but walked in the counsels
and in the imagination of their evil heart,
and went backward, and not forward. Jeremiah 7:24Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day,
I have even sent unto you all MY servants the PROPHETS, daily rising up early and sending them: Jeremiah 7:25Yet they HEARKENED NOT unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. Jeremiah 7:26
Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them;
but they will not hearken to thee:
thou shalt also call unto them;
but they will not answer thee. Jeremiah 7:27Amos 5:26 BUT ye have borne the tabernacle of your and Moloch and Chiun [#666] your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
They burned infants to the beat of instruments in 2 Chron 28 just before the PURGE and EXORCISM and in chapter 30 just AFTER Hezekiah's ceremony SOLELY to get the priests to return to Jerusalem to help defend it.
Amos 5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity
beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
This was the sentence conditionally imposed because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. Canaan as the promised land became the Killing Fields as God let the kings lead them into captivity and death.
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.
NEHEMIAH IDENTIFYING THE PARASITES
The False preachers also missed that the Spirit OF Christ spoke ONLY through the prophets: it is a lie that the "holy spirit" guided the elders and preachers to lie about all of the Bible. The prophets thought that the kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers were lawless parasites.
So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would. Neh 9:24
And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance:
so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat,Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee,
and delighted [became soft, lived voluptuously]
themselves in thy great goodness.
and cast thy law behind their backs,
and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee,
and they wrought great provocations. Neh 9:26
THIS HAS HAPPENED ALL OVER: false teachers fall back to the Law to get authority to be a "king set over us" and absolutely silence the Spirit of Christ speaking through the prophets. Maybe it is time, with Nehemiah and Jesus, to declare that the rascals are parasites and cast them out.Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them. Neh 9:34
For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works. Neh 9:35
Behold, we are servants this day, [and so are you]
and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof,
behold, we are servants in it: Neh 9:36And it yieldeth
much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us
because of our sins:
also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle,
at their pleasure,
and we are in great distress. Neh 9:37Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard,
they have trodden my portion under foot,
they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness Jer. 12:10They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns:
they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit:
and they shall be ashamed of your revenues
because of the fierce anger of the Lord. Je.12:13That is THE meaning of having a Senior Pastor set over you with no Biblical nor common sensical justification.
Chapter XXII.-So Also Were Sacrifices and Oblations.
"And that you may learn that it was for the sins of your own nation,
and for their idolatries and
not because there was any necessity for such sacrifices ,
that they were likewise enjoined, listen to the manner in which He speaks of these by Amos,
one of the twelve, saying:`Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is this day of the Lord for you?
It is darkness and not light, as when a man flees from the face of a lion, and a bear meets him; and he goes into his house, and leans his hands against the wall, and the serpent [devil] bites [stings with tithes] him. Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness and not light, even very dark, and no brightness in it? I have hated, I have despised your feast-days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies:
wherefore, though ye offer Me your burnt-offerings and sacrifices, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your presence.
Take thou away from Me the multitude of thy songs and psalms; I will not hear thine instruments.BUT, let judgment be rolled down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent.
NOTHING HAS CHANGED
Speaking of dominant pastors now replacing the elders and firing the deacons:
"The pastor is not a necessity. He is a FUNGUS GROWTH upon the church, the body of Christians, DWARFING its growth, PREVENTING its development of its members; and until the church GETS RID of him it will NEVER prosper as it should. In the Bible we can find all the necessities.
"I can testify from my own observation that a good eldership will lose its efficiency, and its members become both UNABLE and UNWILLING to do the work of elders, in a very few years after the employment of a pastor. And if under the pastor system a good eldership has ever developed, I have never seen or heard of the case. I don't believe that has or ever will be done." --James A. Harding, Gospel Advocate, May 20, 1885
A professional jester, buffoon, or parasite. In spite of the difference of quantity, balatro is probably connected with balare (to bleat like a sheep) and hence, to speak foolishly. It is donbtless also akin to blatero, a chatterer (Gell.i. 15). Balatrones were paid for their jests, and the tables of the wealthy were generally open to them for the sake of the amusement they afforded. See Scurra; Parasitus.
I. Orig., an elegant, town-bred man; a fine gentleman, gallant, dandy
1. A city buffoon, droll, jester (usually in the suite of wealthy persons, and accordingly a kind of parasite; -Of the clown in a pantomime, rhetores scurra. rhe-tor rhetorician, speechifier,malako-kolax voluptuous parasite, Clearch.26
Malakos (g3120) mal-ak-os'; of uncert. affin.; soft, i.e. fine (clothing); fig. a catamite: - effeminate, soft.
But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings courts. Lu.7:25
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 7:32John Chrysostom proves that this was a CURSE and was quarantined ONLY to Jerusalem and then for a very short time.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, 1Co.6:9
Abusers are:
Arsenokoites (g733) ar-sen-ok-oy'-tace; from 730 and 2845; a sodomite: - abuser of (that defile) self with mankind.For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; 1Ti.1:10
Do ye hear how it is most plainly declared, that God did not from the first require these at your hands? Had He required them, He would have obliged those famous saints who were before the Law to observe this practice.
Then wherefore has He permitted it now?
In condescension to your infirmity. As a physician in his treatment of a delirious patient, etc.: thus did God likewise. For seeing them so frantic in their lust for sacrifices, that they were ready, unless they got them, to desert to idols: nay not only ready, but that they had already deserted, thereupon He permitted sacrifices. And that this is the reason, is clear from the order of events.
After the feast which they made to the demons, then it was that He permitted sacrifices: all but saying: `Ye are mad, and will needs sacrifice: well then, at any rate sacrifice to Me. -(What follows may serve to illustrate the brief remark a little further on, Kai h aixmalwsia kathgoria thj kakiaj.) "But even this, He did not permit to continue to the end, but by a most wise method, withdrew them from it
For He did not permit it to be done in any place of the whole world,
but in Jerusalem only.
Anon, when for a short time they had sacrificed,
he destroyed the city.Had He openly said, Desist, they, such was their insane passion for sacrificing, would not readily have complied. But now perforce, the place being taken away, He secretly withdrew them from their frenzy." So here: "Even the captivity impeaches the wickedness (which was the cause of the permission of sacrifice.")
Because they were abandoned to worship the Starry Host and never able to worship the Creator again, you should look at the form of worship Israel brought with them as abominations out of Egypt. This form of musical "ritualism" was invented by the pagan deities always MARKED by loud music.Rhetoricians fell under the same band when they ventured away from clear SPEAK and SAY and began possessed.Plato Ion 534a continues to speak of the female musical worship team - the Muses:
"and attract other rings; so that sometimes there is formed quite a long chain of bits of iron and rings, suspended one from another; and they all depend for this power on that one stone.
In the same manner also the Muse inspires men herself, and then by means of these inspired persons the inspiration spreads to others, and holds them in a connected chain. For all the good epic poets utter all those fine poems not from art, but as inspired and possessed, and the good lyric poets likewise; [534a] just as
the Corybantian worshippers do not dance when in their senses,
so the lyric poets do not indite those fine songs in their senses,
but when they have started on the melody and rhythm they begin to be frantic, and it is under possession--as the bacchants are possessed, and not in their senses, when they draw honey and milk from the rivers--that the soul of the lyric poets does the same thing, by their own report.For the poets tell us, I believe, that the songs they bring us are the sweets they cull from honey-dropping founts [534b] in certain gardens and glades of the Muses [prostitute singers in Rev 18 John called sorcerers]--
"For a poet is a light and winged and sacred thing, and is unable ever to indite until he has been inspired and put out of his senses, and his mind is no longer in him: every man, whilst he retains possession of that, is powerless to indite a verse or chant an oracle. Seeing then that it is not by art that they compose and utter so many fine things about the deeds of men.like the bees, and winging the air as these do.1 And what they tell is true. (Plato then explains a lot of musical worship and even preaching out of their own head)
In response to a forum thread, I have posted a quick parallel view of the connection between religious musicians and fruits. There are many but Amos 8 and Revelation defines the Mother of Harlots using "lusted after fruits" as rhetoricians, singers and musicians which John identified as sorcerers. This will become a commentary on Amos which proves that when you hear INSTRUMENTS anywhere--including Revelation-- it is the MARK of impending Judgement and the "other" angel commands those still living (real or spiritually) to PREACH THE GOSPEL. You cannot preach "that which is written" with music. Click for he harps in Revelation as WARNING.
Besides agents of the NACC masked under UNITY has been a primary means of defending instruments as the BASIS of unity, the Stone-Campbell Movement founded shortly after the last break with the Disciples has been a major stalking horse to force instruments to restore unity between two groups with radically different roots and NEVER joined in any sense after the first "society" attempt and the adding of Organs which made simply meeting together without discussing the differences impossible.
Together for Greater Ministry Impact.
Rather than being A Soul Saving Workshop the Tulsa event has always had the agendas of uniting the Church of Christ and the Christian Church. Of course, unity to the NACC and all of their false writers is that you AFFIRM their view of instruments or CONFORM by adding instruments. Wade Hodges prefers to sell peacable churches of Christ by IMPOSING instruments knowing that they will sow discord. Hey, a church in the NACC corner with the loss of half its members is a lot better than building their own. All Restoration writers make it clear that the mask of UNITY is an intention to STEAL a church house. Hardeman used the term "steal" of the one stolen church in Nashville during the Hardeman-Boswell debate THRUST upon the Disciples after they tried to use UNITY to subvert preachers with a free O. E. Payne book which is the major source of false teachings.Pat Boultinghouse tells us how she found her freedom from the old Biblical restrictions while working for Howard Publishing Co. of West Monroe, LA. With the help and encouragement of Alton and John Howard, she and her husband launched Image magazine, precursor of Wineskins. She tells of working with influential leaders of the change movement such as Joe Beam, Rubel Shelly, Lynn Anderson, Jeff Walling, Mike Cope, Terry Rush and Marvin Phillips (p. 135).
She asks, "Do we lift up our Lord and draw others to him when we rigidly hold to human traditions and a fifties culture" (p.141).
I remind her and others of like-mind that the limitations on women in the leadership and worship of the church originated with the apostles in the first century, not the 1950s.
From Wade Hodges: I’ve been asked a number of times what I hoped would come out of the reconciliation and unity celebrations that occurred at events like the Tulsa Workshop and NACC. I kept saying I hoped it would lead to some concrete demonstrations of unity beyond getting together for a worship assembly.
All such "unity" meetings are invitations for the instrumentalist to present their view with no intention of taking note that the "proofs" ignore the context and story line and all of the "psallo" proofs point to warfare or to perverted males seducing young males: this is why Paul put the "plucking" in the heart and not young boys and further equated "melody" to "grace" in Colossians 3.
- The NACC has convinced a few that the Church of Christ sected out of the Christian church in 1906.
- For that reason they have mounted many "unity meetings" all intended to subvert what they call the ANTI-instrument churches into being INSTRUMENTAL thereby making unity possible. That is why the Tulsa Workshop has always been a stalking horse for the NACC.
- Any hope for EVEN COOPERATIVE work between the Disciples and Church of Christ ended in 1849 when the first attempt at collecting everyone into one denomination began. Further division within the DISCIPLES continued when they imposed instruments. Churches known as The Church of Christ have never differed over rejecting instruments along with their 2,000 year history.
- Close to the end of the century the Disciples were still trying to get the Churches of Christ to "join the society and organ party."
- In 1906 the Census Bureau knew that the Church of Christ should not be included as property of the Disciples. The Christian Church was Disciples at the time.
- Beginning in 1927 through 1971 the NACC sected out of the Disciples. That means that the Christian Church came into existence about 6 decades after the Church of Christ just denied that they were disciples.
- Therefore, the false and dishonest thesis of "unity" is the same old sheep stealing.
WORSE THAN FALLING INTO BEING DUPES IS THE FACT THAT MOST PREACHERS DO NOT HAVE THE CONSTITUTION OR TRAINING TO BE DISCIPLES OF THE WORD WHICH IS INCONSISTENT WITH "MAKING YOU BETTER" SERMONS BEGIN AT ABOUT THE TIME THAT SINGING WAS ADDED AS IN ACT--IN ad 373.
Posted by Terry Rush at 7:14 AM
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
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Terry Rush: Our people are so tied up in knots trying to sort through the church lingo that many have all but given up on sharing the good news with their neighbor because they can't keep the story straightThe good news is "come to me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest." The laded burden is specificially the singing which "creates spiritual anxiety through religious rituals." At the same time Jesus fired the laded burdens or "doctors of the Law." The REST He promised specificially means to "STOP the speaking, singing, and stop playing instruments all of which create panic or spiritual anxiety.
The knots and blowing the winds have been manufactured by men who have been used by the instrmentalists to do "unity meetings" and "soul winning workshops." They set up a debate between Church of Christ INSTRUMENTALISTS and Christian Church INSTRUMENTALISTS. Even so, Terry uses the discording mantra of YOU ARE FAILURES so that people dare not defend the BIBLE as opposed to preachers as skillful rhetoricans but NOT Disciples of Christ.
SPEAK WHERE THE BIBLE SPEAKS (Excludes music)
Why then, when they have invented on their part unscriptural phrases,What is so strange about SAYING that making melody IN the heart is NOT making melody upon a harp. The caveman child understand that SPEAK does not mean MUSIC which demands singing AND dancing.
for the purposes of irreligion,
do they accuse those who are religious in their use of them
For irreligiousness is utterly forbidden,
though it be attempted to disguise it with artful expressions and plausible sophisms;
but religiousness is confessed by all to be lawful,
even though presented in strange phrases ,
provided only they are used with a religious view,
and a wish to make them the expression of religious thoughts.
Now the aforesaid grovelling phrases of Christ's enemies have been shewn in these remarks to be both formerly and now replete with irreligion; whereas the definition of the Council against them, if accurately examined, will be found to be altogether a representation of the truth, and especially if diligent attention be paid to the occasion which gave rise to these expressions, which was reasonable, and was as follows:- 19. The Council wishing to do away with the irreligious phrases of the Arians, and to use instead the acknowledged words of the Scriptures, Athanasius in 346 and his flight in 356, De Decretis or Defence of the Nicene Definition
"The Thalia is of an effeminate style, being written in imitation of Sotades, an Egyptian poet." "Thalia is accustomed to be sung among tipplers." --See the complete extant works of St. Athanasius, Archbishop of Alexandria, edited by J.P. Migne, from which I translate.' [86].
This work [Thalia] was written by Arius [d. 336] subsequently to his excommunication by the Alexandrian Synod of A.D. 321, according to some authorities. Philostorgius [c. 368 - c. 439] says, he wrote also a collection of songs for sailors, millers, and pilgrims,--an old expedient for spreading religious opinions among the common people, as Neander [Johann August Wilhelm Neander 1789 -1850] observes. Milman [Henry Hart Milman 1791 - 1868 (Dean of St. Paul's, etc.)], in Gibbon's Rome, [as editor] notes the fact thus:"ARIUS APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN THE FIRST, WHO AVAILED HIMSELF OF THIS MEANS [SONGS] OF IMPRESSING HIS DOCTRINES ON THE POPULAR EAR, BEGUILING THE IGNORANT, as Philostorgius terms it, by the sweetness of his music, into the impiety of his doctrines."
Terry Rush: All know God is against man-made doctrine, yet we've accepted with open arms this Trojan horse. Enormous strain develops in trying to assure ourselves that much of our doctrine did not come from man but from God Himself.Because, the Spirit of Christ EXCLUDED vocal or instrumental rejoicing for the "church in the wilderness" we oul have to find proof that He violated His own direct command and all history which shows the spiritual israelites quarantined from the curse of the sacrificial system. He will never find the godly people ever worshiping with singing and instrumental accompaniment so no one in the Jewish world ever even hallucinated music as part of the church.
As far as this writer and all known history, music was a Satan or Lucifer invented instruments to bleed off worship from God and His word. Terry will find no other evidence. (Proof Here)."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)All history knows that "music" is the Trojan horse used to shut down the rational or spiritual mind to slip the enemy into the walls withut rational thinking.
The Marzeah in Amos 5
"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)
"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).
What is troubling to people who have read the Bible and Restoration history is the man-made doctrine of preaching as in sermonizing without knowing or caring what the Bible speaks.
To Paul, "unity" is based on rejecting the "diversities" in Rome which included musical SELF-pleasure among the "diet" sects in Rome and all market-places. Click to see Mark Henderson and the Quail Spring elders to see that music is ALWAYS the mark of gender confused people, while they send out the flute-girl when decend men want to "speak that which is written" in the words of Paul contrasting Romans 14 (the marketplace) and the ekklesia or school of the bible (Rom 15; Eph 5; Col 3)
Jesus cast out the musical minstrels and consigned the pipers, singers and musicians to the market-place.
Chysostom Letter to Theodore After His Fall
In fact, the second major use of the Psallo word has to do with the polluted rope used to MARK those who dallied around the Agora. They would show up at the ekklesia (church) as totally polluted.Wherefore I pray and beseech you to banish all this Satanic mode of thinking from your soul, and to return to this state of salvation.
For if indeed I were commanding you to ascend to your former altitude all at once, you would naturally complain of there being much difficulty in doing this: but if all which I now ask you to do is to get up and return thence in the opposite direction, why do you hesitate, and shrink, and make a retrograde movement?
Have you not seen those who have died in the midst of luxury and drunkenness, and sport and all the other folly of this life?
Where are they now who used to strut through the market place with much pomp, and a crowd of attendants? who were clothed in silk and redolent with perfumes, and kept a table for their parasites, and were in constant attendance at the theatre?
What has now become of all that parade of theirs? It is all gone;-the costly splendour of their banquets , the throng of musicians, the attentions of flatterers, the loud laughter, the relaxation of spirit, the enervation of mind, the voluptuous, abandoned, extravagant manner of life-it has all come to an end.
In Romans 14 Paul left the diversities in the market-place where much of the diet word also defines musical sects which made place for the parasites which was a synonym for an instrumentalist who would do ANYTHING to get on the chicken dinner circuit.
Because of the susceptibility of this enervation of mind: aton-ia or asthen-eia without dipping his pen Paul outlawed self-pleasure or the "creation of mental excitement" which afflicts the weak and infirm and points to the "reproaches" prophesied of Jesus which meant musical mocking and exposing his private parts. This is obvious to readers of Psalm 41. The version at the Dead Sea is much more explic in proving that mocking means musically. Lucifer as "the singing and harp-playing prostitute" in the garden of Eden and Nimrod down to modern science knows that music induces the impulses of fight, flight or sexuality: that's why people are willing to deliberately sow discord to USE music and musicians.
Outlawed as SELF-pleasure in the ekklesia.Terry is defining obeying the direct command of the Spirit OF Christ for the "church in the wildernes" a man-made doctrine. Fact is, there was never any preaching in the synagogue or church so there was no 'collection plate' to feed Terry while sows discord. The Synagogue existed side-by-side with the Temple State ABANDONED to Sabazianism or Dionysus worship. Fact is, Jesus exampled standing up to READ in the synagogue and decently sitting down without becomming a buffoon which is the MARK of God's Wrath. Fact is, there was no singing for almost 400 years.
Areskos A. pleasing, mostly in bad sense, obsequious, cringing, Arist.EN1108a28, 1126b12, Thphr.Char.5.1. II. areskos, ho, the staff borne by pornoboskoi [brothel keeper] on the stage, Poll.4.120.
Arist.EN1108a28 Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics book 2
[12] In respect of truth then, the middle character may be called truthful, and the observance of the mean Truthfulness; pretence in the form of exaggeration is Boastfulness, and its possessor a boaster; in the form of understatement, Self-depreciation, and its possessor the self-depreciator.
[13] In respect of pleasantness and social amusement, the middle character is witty and the middle disposition Wittiness; the excess is Buffoonery and its possessor a buffoon; the deficient man may be called boorish, and his disposition Boorishness. In respect of general pleasantness in life, the man who is pleasant in the proper manner is friendly, and the observance of the mean is Friendliness; he that exceeds, if from no interested motive, is obsequious, if for his own advantage, a flatterer; he that is deficient, and unpleasant in all the affairs of life, may be called quarrelsome and surly.
Tertullian, without a Phd, 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?Matt. 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
- 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. 86).
5412. phortizo, for-tid´-zo; from 5414; to load up (properly, as a vessel or animal), i.e. (figuratively) to overburden with ceremony (or spiritual anxiety): -- lade, by heavy laden.Strabo in Geography wrote of performance worship ritual which Jesus and Paul outlawed:
for all agree in regarding the women as the chief founders of religion, and it is the women who provoke the men to the more attentive worship of the gods, to festivals, and to supplications, and it is a rare thing for a man who lives by himself to be found addicted to these things.
"And we may consider the conception that we have about the gods:
Zeus does not sing and harp to the poets himself.
But professional musicians we speak of as vulgar people, and indeed
we think it not manly to perform music, except when drunk or for fun.
Terry Rush: As far as evangelistic effectiveness is concerned, we live in fundamental neutral. How can we remember how it goes when the Word really isn't there to show our neighbor?An evangelist goes: there is no such thing as a located travelling salesman! Evangelists have a GO button. The command of Jesus was to make disciples by preaching the gospel. You cannot possibly ATTRACT disciples pledged to be despised and rejected of men and put out the honey to attract butterflies. What Terry is speaking of is AUDIENCE to support an unlawful priesthood by an unlawful "law of giving" which on the face of it is legalistic.
I would say that those who rather than moving on have decided to lie about the music issue have tried to put everyone in reverse--back to the towers of babbling or to what Paul warned about in Corinth about those known as the Mad Women. That is why the MUSIC paradigm means to set out males equally attractive to both sexes or females exercising the AUTHENTIA authority which is both erotic and murderous.
Korinthios Corinthian, Hdt., etc.; K. korę courtesan, hetairai K. Ar.Pl.149; oinos K. Alex.290; K. kadoi Diph.61.3 . Adv. -iôs in Corinthian fashion, oikos (house, Temple) K. estegasmenos J.AJ8.5.2 :-- fem. Korinthias , ados, hę, St.Byz.:--also Korinthiakos , ę, on, X.HG6.2.9; K. gluphai Ph.1.666 : Korinthikos , AP6.40 (Maced.).Following O.E.Payne who collected many historical quotes using the word Psallo, Tom Burgess is probably the latest to use these texts to prove that the word psall demands the use of instruments in Christian worship. We have quoted the REST OF THE STORY on Plutarch, Moralia: Click Here. Strange as it seems, all of these point to older males plucking the harp to seduce a young boy.
2. courtesan, Hdt.2.134, Ar.Pl.149, Ath.13.567a,571d, etc.; opp. pornę (a common prostitute), Anaxil.22.1 ; opp. gametę, Philetaer.5 ; Aphroditę he. Apollod.Hist.17.
Ar.Pl.149, Aristophanes Plutus
Cario
I myself was bought for a few coins; if I'm a slave, it's only because I was not rich.
Chremylus
And what of the Corinthian whores? [150] If a poor man offers them proposals, they do not listen; but if it be a rich one, instantly they turn their arses to him.
Cario
It's the same with the lads; they care not for love, to them money means everything.
Chremylus
[155] You speak of male whores; yet some of them are honest, and it's not money they ask of their patrons.
Aphrodite III. ho tas Aphroditas [astęr] the planet Venus,
Plato Epinomis: [987b] is clearly a sign of witlessness; and as to their having got no names, the cause of it should be stated as we have done. For indeed they have received titles of gods: thus, that Lucifer, or Hesperus (which is the same), should almost belong to Aphrodite [Zoe],1 is reasonable, and quite befitting a Syrian lawgiver 2 ; and that that which follows the same course as the sun and this 3 together should almost belong to Hermes. 4 Let us also note three motions of bodies5 travelling to the right with the moon and the sun.Pausinius, Corinth: Greeks considered madness an important aspect of worship. Women in particular responded to Bacchus (also known as Dionysus), the god of madness; 'him of the orgiastic cry, exciter of women, Dionysus, glorified with mad honors'. (Plutarch, Moralia 671c Ancient Corinth was a center of Dionysiac worship,B. Korę.. the Daughter (of Demeter), name under which Persephone (Proserpine) was worshipped in Attica
"While women were famed for their wildness in the Bacchic cult and in certain other mystery cults, other aspects of their worship were more traditional. Of special importance to the study of the situation Paul addresses is the concept of clamor, noisy outbursts of religious pandemonium. "
This was such a "female" concept that even David is noted for his "initiation" and that when a male fell into this abused and abusive act such as singing and playing "he was drunk, homosexual or 'just having fun'." You know, like males playing dress up.
Don't forget that Revelation 17 identifies the Mother of Harlots and in Revelation 18 identifies the FRUITS and the "musicians" meaning the Muses and all instrument players as sorcerers: real and virtual prostitution.
The MUSES were always the performers for Apollo or the Abaddon or Apollyon in Revelation. In the area of Patmos the Mother of Harlots was Circe (church) and the Muses were identified as the Locusts who put you to sleep and give you the sting of death with their scorpion's tail.
INTENDING TO DECEIVE: This is the universal music term beginning in the garden of Eden with a type of Lucifer called "a singing and harp-playing prostitute.The Bible outlaws MAKING your own Biblical text. Those who MAKE poetry or song were the MYTH makers and not prose writers or TRUE history writers. poięsan c. describe in verse, makers of mythHetaira 1. a companion, Il.; phorminx, hęn daiti (feast) theoi (god) poięsan (make poetry, improvise) 2. opposite to a lawful wife, a concubine, a courtesan
Pl.Phd.61b,Plato Phaedo. [61b] before making sure that I had done what I ought, by obeying the dream and composing verses. So first I composed a hymn to the god whose festival it was; and after the god, considering that a poet,
if he is really to be a poet, must compose myths and not speeches,
since I was not a maker of myths, I took the myths of Aesop,
which I had at hand and knew,
and turned into verse the first I came upon.
THIS IS THE STORY OF THE HYPOCRITES IN EZEKIEL ALLUDED TO BY JESUS:Jameson Fawcett Brown notes: Vulgate translates, "They turn thy words into a song of their mouths." heart goeth after covetousness--the grand rival to the love of God; therefore called "idolatry," and therefore associated with impure carnal love,
as both alike transfer the heart's affection from the Creator to the creature1 et veniunt ad te quasi si ingrediatur populus et sedent coram te populus meus et audiunt sermones tuos et non faciunt eos quia in canticum oris sui vertunt illos et avaritiam suam sequitur cor eorum
Therefore, the literature agrees that the MAKERS of Religious poetry or music were always, poięsan, prostitutes. Peter's "corrupters" of the word "peddle learning at retail" and are therefore "adulterers." The instrument or weapon of the religious musical prostitute was often the Phormix: this was and is the MARK of Apollo or Apollyon and the Mother of Harlots (Rev 17) who uses the "lusted after fruits" and rhetoricians, singers and musicians are called SORCERERS (Rev. 18). hoi pęchees poieuntai the horns of which are made into the sides of the lyre, Hdt.4.192; b. represent in poetry, invent, improvise
And they come to thee, as if people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness. Ezek 33:31
Phorminx 1 the phorminx, a kind of lyre or harp, the oldest stringed instrument of the Greeks, esp. as the instrument of Apollo, Hom.; with seven strings (after Terpander's time), Pind. [Commonly referred to pherô, as if it were the portable lyre: better perh. from Root .phrem, Lat. fremo, to sound.]
The MARK of music in the Bible is that it causes people to hunger and thirst for the WORD--as it has been taught without further expounding insists Paul--but search all around in pulpits and Bible classes and cannot find it any more. Jesus says that Doctors of the law TAKE A WAY the key to knowledge.
Aristotle: Melody Deceives: "Poets also make use of this in inventing words, as a melody "without strings" or "without the lyre"; for they employ epithets from negations, a course which is approved in proportional metaphors.How can you SPEAK the Gospel with instruments when SPEAK is the opposite of poetry or music. Only a 'conversational style' was permitted in the ekklesia and the rhetoricians, singers, musicians, dancers and sellers of SELVES and radishes was quarantined to the Agora with the PSALLO ROPE..
The form of diction should be neither metrical nor without rhythm. If it is metrical, it lacks persuasiveness, for it appears artificial, and at the same time it distracts the hearer's attention, since it sets him on the watch for the recurrence of such and such a cadence..
According to Philo, the gods of the pagans exploit this weakness of men. For the sake of a better effect, and with the intention of more easily cheating their devotes, that they have set their lies to melodies, rhythms and meters.."LOOK AGAIN: Plato Ion notes: In like manner the Muse first of all inspires men herself; and from these inspired persons a chain of other persons is suspended, who take the inspiration.
For all the good epic poets utter all those fine poems not from art, but as inspired and possessed, and the good lyric poets likewise;
just as the Corybantian worshippers do not dance when in their senses,
so the lyric poets do not indite those fine songs in their senses,
but when they have started on the melody and rhythm they begin to be frantic,
and it is under possession as the bacchants are possessed, and not in their senses, when they draw honey and milk from the rivers that the soul of the lyric poets does the same thing, by their own report.
Ion. Only too well; for I look down upon them from the stage,
and behold the various emotions of pity, wonder, sternness, stamped upon their countenances when I am speaking: and I am obliged to give my very best attention to them; for
For I have to pay the closest attention to them;if I make them cry I myself shall laugh,
and if I make them laugh I myself shall cry when the time of payment arrives.Or:
since, if I set them crying, I shall laugh myself because of the money I take,
but if they laugh, I myself shall cry because of the money I lose.
Terry Rush: 1. Our hermeneutic is made up: Man created it to claim the texts he wanted and to somehow dismiss those he doesn't. Hermeneutic is not a biblical term and was never taught by God.Only Terry's generation has denied God the right to command, example and infer: something Terry reserves for himself. Jesus exampled ONLY reading the Word in the synagogue. Paul commanded the word SPEAK which includes both poetry or music. Only myth mongers were permitted to write poems and song and were not trusted with real history. That is why Paul commanded and history observed speaking or "singing" that which is written.
The "Direct Command", "Example", and "Necessary Inference" passages seem to have melted.
Look at it. Necessary Inference? That's what man does to get his way when the Bible won't back it. One can claim, "Well, at least it's inferred."
Terry cannot find a single passage to prove that musical instruments were commanded, exampled or even inferred for the people who met in the Qahal, synagogue or church in the wilderness. He does not know that the sacrificial system was a CURSE specificially added BECAUSE of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai.
Terry cannot find a single passage where instruments are not the CAUSE or MARK of people who have or are telling God to "shut your face."
Terry missed how Jesus defined the Scribes and Pharisees as Hypocrites meaning speakers, singers and musicians.
Isaiah 29
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
- This people draweth nigh unto me
- with their mouth,
- and honoreth me with their lips;
- but their heart is far from me. Matt 15:8
Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. Is. 29:9
For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep,
and hath closed your eyes:
the prophets and your rulers,
the seers hath he covered. Isa 29:10
Luke 16:14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:Matt 15:10 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying,
Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: Isa 29:11
And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying,
Read this, I pray thee:
and he saith, I am not learned. Isa 29:12
for they hear your words but do not put them into practice. Ez 33:32
Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? Matt 15:12
- But he answered and said, Every plant [doctrine], which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. Matt 15:13
Wherefore the Lord said,
Forasmuch as this people draw near me
with their mouth,
and with their lips do honour me,
When all this comes true--and it surely will--then they will know that a prophet has been among them." Eze 33:33 And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. [pit] Matt 15:14
- Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind.
- Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols:the worm is spread under thee, and the maggots cover thee. Isaiah 14:11
Isaiah 14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
but have removed their heart far from me,
and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: Isa 29:13
Matt. 15:9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men
Terry, cannot quote any imagined text supplied by "changelings" which does not lie: it is intentional because they intend to sow discord while being ignorant of the context and story line. The only other option is unspeakable.
Because Terry is working with people from the NACC he may believe their Anglican / Catholic Heritage where the HIGH CHURCH has the authority to use changed culture and not be "strict constructionists" for defining faith and practice. While that was and is the view of the Disciples, those used to divert churches of Christ still laugh about us being 'strict constructionists' not knowing that evolution makes reading the Bible impossible. Fact is, the Church of England nor anyone but their Catholic mother ever voted for the High Church view.
Those who promote instruments use the high church view of the Disciples who never pretended to have or need Biblical authority to add institutions and instruments: the driven purpose well documented is that it would bring in more money.
The Bible and all recorded history disagrees with Terry Rush.
Terry permits the authority to COMMAND, EXAMPLE AND INFER that he is CORRECT about musical instruments when he DENIES that God has that authority when he used the Spirit OF Christ in the PROPHETS to totally repudiate the use of MUSIC as a mark that 'WE HAVE NO INTENTION OF LISTENING to the Words of God.'The LAW of inferences or SILENCE is used only by the instrumentalists: they make it certain that "There is no LAW which saith 'thou shalt not play instruments in the Bible class' so we gonn use them KNOWING and planning for sowing discord and counting the costs.Balaam demonstrated a high ethical standard when he said:
'Even if Balak gave me his palace filled with silver and gold,.
There is no ROLE in the "school of the Bible" or ekklesia other than to SAY what the Lord has said. No humanoid can IMPROVE that by going to rhetoric school to learn a bisexual way to attract everyone.I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad,
to go beyond the command of the LORD--
and I must say only what the LORD says'? Num 24:13
Peter outlawed "further expounding" which means to make Scripture into sermon fodder and corrupt it meaning to "sell learning at retail" which word means adultry. You are commanded to "sing" that which is written and teach that which has been taught. Bible Card Class.
God makes "retailing" which requires "adding too" something God has not taught worthy of death. God as "father" thought and the "son" spoke those words: that is the meaning of "spirit without measure" meaning truth from God.
I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee,
and will put my words [Dabar, Logos] in his mouth;
and he shall speak unto them
all that I shall command him. Deut 18:18
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words
which he shall speak in my name,
I will require it of him. Deut 18:19
leBut the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name,
which I have not commanded him to speak,
or that shall speak in the name of other gods,
even that prophet shall die. Deut 18:20
That PROVES that anyone who teaches anything that the WORD spoke from the FATHER within and as revealed by the Spirit OF Christ to the Apostles has PASSED from life to death and is worthy of execution. Zechariah identifies the "bowing to Baal prophesiers" who were musical frantics. After the signs following Pentecost, anyone who continued to try to manipulate people with music should be executed by their parents!
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits (Old, empty wineskins), and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter (these people used musical devices and said that the gods lived inside of them): should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? Isaiah 8:19
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word,
it is because there is no light in them. Isaiah 8:20
Those doing "a school of Christ" as the Campbells agreed with Jesus, Paul and early history do not NEED to infer: the direct command it to SPEAK and the word SPEAK in the 'ekklesia' is defined as the OPPOSITE of poetry or music. You don't NEED a law to silence instruments when Jesus speaks when the elders "teach that which has been taught" and we "sing that which is written."
The CENI is well developed in the Bible and is defended by most historic church Scholars and all founders of denominations. The High Church notion of the Angiical-derived Disciples did not NEED any authority other than "will it make money." Only after they had stopped the RM in its track did the try to make PSALLO their authority for the organ. However, the scholars did not defend them.
All of that small band of men use the same mantra. They hesitate not a second to blame the "sectarian church of Christ" for INVENTING the "no instruments" position because the were "mean, southern, rednecked andignorant. No one allowed to get out of the institute can say that out of ignorance. I have to conclude that they don't know and just wiggle their lips when their handlers pull the strings.
The Bible begins the discussion with lucifer who was "the singing and harp playing prostitute" in the garden of Eden, and using the SERPENT word which identifies the NAGA agent as a "Musical
er" who wholly seduced Eve in a sexual sense. The Assyrians are identified as the TALLEST TREE in Eden.
Terry Rush cannot find one historical church scholar who does not KNOW what happened at Sinai and who does not repudiate instruments as tools or weapons of those doing MIND CONTROL which John called Sorcery.
No founder of a denomination failed to grasp the evil influence of music. They do not know that the Catholics NEVER did congregtional singing with an organ to accompany.
Why do they TWIST the facts? Because they know that YOU will not know any better.Terry Rush: 2. Our stance on instrumental music is wrong: Man created this doctrine which makes it a toughy if we are going to share the true doctrine with our neighbors.One wonders why all of the Bible associates instruments with "Lucifer the singing and harp playing prostitute" in the garden of eden, with warriors, sacrificial exorcists, prostitutes and Sodomites as well as many examples of them being a mark of telling God to shut His Mouth. The godly Israelites NEVER worshipped with instruments which were outlawed for their synagogues or "church in the wilderness." On wonders why all known historical scholars repudiate Terry Rush as well as all of the founders of religious groups. Not even the Catholics ever fell into "congregational singing with organ accompaniment."
One supposes that Jesus was ignorant when he cast out the musical minstrels "like dung" proving that He needed no magic to help the young girl. One supposes that Jesus was not informed when He commanded those willing to be evangelists to GO and preach the gospel. You cannot preach but you can hide the gospel with music.
Then the whole Bible and most of church history is wrong: no one sang or played for almost 400 years and the Catholics say they got MUSIC because it was "common to all pagan cults." No pretense of getting it from the Bible.
Terry Rush: 2. Instrumental music was not an issue in the first century church because it wasn't an issue with God. Instuments of worship are not new. They were abundantly available back in Jesus and Paul's day.JESUS SPOKE BUT THE PHARISEES JESUS DEFINED AS HYPOCRITES -- SPEAKERS, SINGERS AND INSTRUMENT PLAYERS -- HAD BEEN DEPRIVED: SENT STRONG DELUSIONS.
For those not blinded to the word there are many examples in the New Testament denouncing the "frenzy" always incited with musical instruments--almost always percussion even with harps.
The instruments of worship were only in pagan religions such as that of Babylon where they originated. God abandoned the Israelites to worship the starry host way back at Mount Sinai BECAUSE of musical idolatry. All of the Old Testament proves that the instruments of NOISE were like all pagan sacrificial systems--exorcism.
A musical instrument is defined as a "machine for doing hard work primarily in warfare and in creating the shock and awe of pagan temples." The Levitical Warrior "musicians" did service or HARD BONDAGE. No one in the Old Testament is said to have worshiped with instruments. In fact the loud noise was a signal to fall on your face or be gone. They PROPHESIED with musical instruments.
"The first three centuries of the church witnessed many controversies; some of them concerned themselves directly with music. The most important of these issues were:
(a) organized versus spontaneous praying and singing;
(b) scriptural versus extrascriptural poems;
(c) fusion with Hellenistic music;
(d) vocal versus instrumental music;
(e) the rise of monasticism and its influence upon ecclesiastical chant." (Interpreter's Dict of the Bible, Music, p. 467).The first problem occurred when the doxologies of the Bible which were like Psalms were replaced by "a great number of spontaneous and highly individualized doxologies."
........ However, the non-Biblical responses were ratified and codified at the second synod of Vaison in 529.This writing of their own "song book" virtually destroyed spontaneous or Biblical worship.
However, sectarian introduction of any thing not Biblical is almost always based on commercial interest (more attendees, etc.)
"The large displacement of the Psalter by other matter of praise in the Protestant Churches during the last one hundred years has been due, no so much to the lack of appreciation of the Psalms,
........ as to the commercial enterprise of music publishers." (Int Std Bible Ency., Psalms, p. 2494B).Terry Rush: 2. Did they not pick up on this potential threat and address it....at least once?
- The Spirit OF Christ who outlawed vocal and instrumental rejoicing in the "church in the wildernes" after God had abandoned the "national" or kingly-clergy over to musical idolatry BECAUSE of musical idolatry at Mount.
- The synagogue for the faithful "never had a praise service" and the noise-making instruments of the Warrior Levites was restricted to in and around the "national" temple and no where else on the whole world. Regular people would die if they came near.
- For hundreds of years the only "national" use of instruments was by imported non-Jews because the faithful males refused to "wear the hat of hermes" to perform including the Abomination of Desolation.
- But, for disciples, the Spirit Of Christ addressed MUSIC in prophecy and was musically mocked to the Cross.
- There was NO MUSIC for the synagogue, Jesus built His synagogue or ekklesia, so WHO would hallucinate the use of MUSIC in the synagogue. Its absence does not mean that God did not care any more than the absence of dancing and sex in the church does not mean that God CANNOT have an opinion.
- Paul outlawed the SELF-pleasure of the musical sects known for what the used for food. That means "creating mental excitement" which Simple Simons know NOT to do in church. The word absolute OUTLAWS instruments if you read Paul's knowledge base.
So, do you not think it odd that such an element is present at the time of the N.T. writings, yet they never discussed it? Were they afraid to? Didn't they have some crossover issues from the old covenant to the new? It could be this was not an issue then and they didn't expect to be now.Well, in fact they did. Psalm 41 prophesied that Judas would try to TRIUMPH over Jesus: that is the "vocal and instrumental rejoicing" outlawed for the church in the wilderness. The Judas Bag was for carrying the mouthpieces of instruments. Then Jesus cast out the musical minstrels meaning "more or less violently" or "as one casts out dung." Then, Jesus consigned the pipers, singers and dancers to the marketplate where they sold speaking, singing, playing and selling bodies.
When Paul commanded speak for the school of the Bible the word is "opposite of poetry or music" which was always several removes from truth and disturbed the spirit. The gongs and clangs of 1 Cor 13 point to warfare, sorcery or to the "virtual" pipe organ in the theater.
The synagogue Jesus endorsed had music outlawed as the church in the wilderness. The Temple State abandoned by God to Sabazianism or the worship of the Astrial deities, was like all of the national temples which were for the king and clergy. No Simple Simon kid would have dared sing or play or dance in the synagogue and they all knew that the MUSIC concept marked pagan and perverted religion. This was the Abomination of Desolation in Jerusalem where Zeus and Dionysus identifed perverted staff who were NOT true Jews.
Therefore, Terry Rush and friends will have to find a command, example or inference authorizing what the Spirit OF Christ outlawed in the wilderness.This claim that the New Testament is silent about instruments has to be "strongly delusional." ALL of the false claims are hand fed from the NACC:
Mark Henderson: Instrumental music is a non-issue. You don’t see a discussion in the Book of Acts. There is nothing in the New Testament that even remotely resembles the detailed instructions for worship that we saw in the Old Testament. The New Testament simply has nothing to say about instruments in worship.
The Old Testament commands and encourages the use of instruments, and the heavenly vision includes instruments in the picture.But there are many discussions such as when they wanted to make a sacrifice to Zeus when Paul spoke. This worship was repudiated and showed up as the "abomination of deslolation" in the temple.
In between, the New Testament says nothing about instruments in worship, so how did we end up with this anti-instrument heritage?
David Faust: 4. In the Gospels, Jesus never directly addressed the instrumental / non-instrumental question one way or the other.
He had a lot to say about the heart of true worship. In the Sermon on the Mount, He unmasked the hypocritical practices of the Pharisees who dishonored God with their outward acts of righteousness. In Mark 7:6-8, He condemned emptyheartless, ritualistic worship,Then WHY make them an issue to repudiate all of church history and to deliberately sow discord when everyone knows that the "instrumentalists" intend to shut down congregational singing as a way to teach that which is written?
By quoting Isaiah and Ezekiel Jesus identified the HYPOCRITES as preformance speakers, singers and players of instruments.
1. THE MARK OF THE HYPOCRITES. Jesus and the language identifies musical performers as hypocrites
The Pharisees changed the Law of God so that they could teach their own doctrine so they could justify taking money form the widows. The same people in the Temple took the widows mites and because they did Jesus promised that the temple would be dismantled. We know that most if not all of the Warrior Musicians died and were "burned up" in the place typical of hell.
2. THE MARK OF THE FEMININE AND EFFEMINATEMark 7:6 He answered and said unto them,
Well hath Esaias prophesied
of you hypocrites, as it is written,
This people honoureth me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me.
Ezekiel makes the same fuller statement to define hypocrite performers and hypocrite audience.
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
And they come unto thee as the people cometh,
for with their mouth they shew much love,
and they sit before thee as my people,
and they hear thy words,
but they will not do them:
(Lord, Lord as amorousness - inordinate love),
but their heart goeth after their covetousness. Eze 33:31Indeed, to them you are nothing more than
one who sings love songs (minstrel as a prostitute)
with a beautiful voice and
plays (make melody on) an instrument well,for they hear your words
When all this comes true--and it surely will--
but do not put them into practice. Eze 33:32NIV
then they will know that a prophet has been among them." Eze 33:33Hupokrinô reply, make answer
2. expound, interpret, explain [outlawed by Peter as private opposition] II. Att., speak in dialogue, hence play a part on the stage, be an actor, kômôidian, of orators and rhetoricians, represent dramatically, use histrionic arts, exaggerate,
Often appears with: Pharisaios 1 a Pharisee, Separatist (from pharash, to distinguish), one of a sect who separated themselves from other Jews as affecting superior holiness.Hupokrino. C.Transf., of instruments, to sound, resound:
Including the Latin canto to produce melodious sound (by the voice or an instrument), to sound, sing, play (class. in prose and poetry; rare in Cic.). 2. Of an actor, to represent a part, to act, tragoedias [goat singers],
pastoris bucina cantat, Prop. 4 (5), 10, 30:cantabat fanis, cantabat tibia ludis,
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. OratorOutlawed as SELF-pleasure in the ekklesia in Romans 15:1Poi-ętęs II. composer of a poem, author, p. kômôidias Pl.Lg.935e; p. kainôn dramatôn, b. composer of music, 2. author of a speech
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.
Again: Arist.EN1108a28 Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics book 2
[12] In respect of truth then, the middle character may be called truthful, and the observance of the mean Truthfulness; pretence in the form of exaggeration is Boastfulness, and its possessor a boaster; in the form of understatement, Self-depreciation, and its possessor the self-depreciator.
[13] In respect of pleasantness and social amusement, the middle character is witty and the middle disposition Wittiness; the excess is Buffoonery and its possessor a buffoon; the deficient man may be called boorish, and his disposition Boorishness. In respect of general pleasantness in life, the man who is pleasant in the proper manner is friendly, and the observance of the mean is Friendliness; he that exceeds, if from no interested motive, is obsequious, if for his own advantage, a flatterer;
That is why singers and musicians were known as PARASITES: they would do ANYTHING to keep from working. In polite society any such creature who came into a community and wanted to be fed to perform was in effect "tarred and feathered" because "we have no such people in our community."
Hypokrino. III. In the lang. of religion, as v. n. or a., to use enchantments, charms, incantations, to enchant, to charm, : cantata Luna, exorcised by magic,
Vergil, Eclogues 8 To PollioFrom Ezekiel pointed to by Jesus along with Isaiah, Jesus identifies the performers as hypocrites intending to seduce you out of at least your money. That is why religious music has always been a sexual or military attack (psallo) to get your money.
DAMON
“Rise, Lucifer, and, heralding the light,
bring in the genial day, while I make moan
fooled by vain passion for a faithless bride,
for Nysa, and with this my dying breath
call on the gods, though little it bestead--
the gods who heard her vows and heeded not.
‘Begin, my flute, with me Maenalian lays.’
Nysa in Ethiopia, called "the sacred," its cult of Dionysus: Hdt. 2.146, Hdt. 3.97
Nysa (2) mountain, Typhon at: Apollod. 1.6.3 in Asia, the nymphs and Dionysus at: Apollod. 3.4.3
Ever hath Maenalus his murmuring groves
and whispering pines, and ever hears the songs
of love-lorn shepherds, and of Pan, who first
brooked not the tuneful reed should idle lie.
‘Begin, my flute, with me Maenalian lays.’
Nysa to Mopsus given! what may not then
we lovers look for? soon shall we see mate
griffins with mares, and in the coming age
shy deer and hounds together come to drink.
‘Begin, my flute, with me Maenalian lays.’
Now, Mopsus, cut new torches, for they bring
your bride along; now, bridegroom, scatter nuts:
forsaking Oeta mounts the evening star!
‘Begin, my flute, with me Maenalian lays.’
O worthy of thy mate, while all men else
thou scornest, and with loathing dost behold
my shepherd's pipe, my goats, my shaggy brow,
and untrimmed beard, nor deem'st that any god
for mortal doings hath regard or care.
‘Begin, my flute, with me Maenalian lays.
Shepherd's pipeALPHESIBOEUS
- Shepherd's pipe invented by Hermes:[Hermeneutics] Apollod. 3.10.2
- given by him to Apollo: [Apollyon] Apollod. 3.10.2
“Bring water, and with soft wool-fillet bind
these altars round about, and burn thereon
rich vervain and male frankincense, that I
may strive with magic spells to turn astray
my lover's saner senses, whereunto
there lacketh nothing save the power of song.
‘Draw from the town, my songs, draw Daphnis home.’
Songs can the very moon draw down from heaven
circe with singing changed from human form
the comrades of Ulysses, and by song
is the cold meadow-snake, asunder burst.
‘Draw from the town, my songs, draw
She seized the chance
and by her incantation called strange gods
with a strange charm, which had the power to hide
the white moon's features and draw thirsty clouds
about her father's head. The changing sky
then lowered more black at each repeated tone
of incantation, and the ground exhaled
its vapours, while his people wandered there
along the darkened paths until no guard
was near to aid the imperiled king.
The "new style singing" from the new wineskins is under the Mother of the Vineyard proving that all musical worship was enchantment (Sorcery Rev 18) intending to induce a sexual-like climax with the gods or spirits. This is worship of the God, Dionysus, of the Old wineskins with which Israel was cursed because of PERFORMING it at Mount Sinai.
"Now, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy (speak or sing) out of their own imagination. Prophesy against them Ezek 13:17
and say, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to the women who sew magic charms on all their wrists and make veils of various lengths for their heads in order to ensnare people. Will you ensnare the lives of my people but preserve your own? Ezek 13:18
And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies? Eze 13:19
Pollute (h2490) is used interchangeably with play (h5059) which means to play a musical instrument. Of course, the motive and purposes count:
Chalal (h2490) khaw-lal'; a prim. root [comp. 2470]; prop. to bore, i. e. (by impl.) 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: - begin (* men began), defile, * break, defile, * eat (as common things), * first, * gather the grape thereof, * take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
Hebrew Dictionary linked to Strong Numbers Chalal (h2490) an instroctor/ of distance/space, start, commence; to redeem, to desecrate, make void, to create a cavity, vacuum, hollow, an empty space; a hollow/vacuum as a means to trap or bring together, nature; a vault, to make hollow: to wound, pierce, define, violate, make vulgar, wounded, slain, dead, the action of resisting: to break, disregard; violating instruction, to arrange/ an order of instruction; to assign, to pipe, play pipes
3. THE MARK OF THESE CONCEIVING TO DECEIVEHistory also nots that when you go from SPEAK or SAY to quote or become "rhetorical" (meaning of hypocrite) it was a SIGN of effeminacy and the CAUSE of an effeminate nation.
Hdt.1.155 Heredotus: Cyrus told how to take the FIGHT out of the enemy: [4] But pardon the Lydians, and give them this command so that they not revolt or pose a
and order them to wear tunics under their cloaks
and knee-boots on their feet,
and to teach their sons lyre-playing [kitharizein]
and song [psallein] and dance
and shop-keeping [huckstering].
And quickly, O king,
you shall see them become women instead of men,
so that you need not fear them, that they might revolt."That proves that Satan us using the neutered performers to neuter the church.
"And Euripides does likewise, in his Bacchae, citing the Lydian usages at the same time with those of Phrygia, because of their similarity:
But ye who left Mt. Tmolus (Sardis was on this mt.), fortress of Lydia, revel-band of mine, women whom I brought from the land of barbarians as my assistants and travelling companions,
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification. 1 Corinthians 14:10
Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. 1 Corinthians 14:11
uplift the tambourines native to Phrygian cities, inventions of mine and mother Rhea. [Zoe]
And again, happy he who, blest man, initiated in the mystic rites, is pure in his life, . . . who, preserving the righteous orgies of the great mother Cybele, and brandishing the thyrsus on high, and wreathed with ivy, doth worship Dionysus.
In the words of Rubel Shelly: "Come Holy Spirit, come, make us truly new creatures in Christ"Come, ye Bacchae, come, ye Bacchae, bringing down (double entendre) Bromius, (boisterous one) god the child of god, out of the Phrygian mountains into the broad highways of Greece.
"For decades African Americans had used the term rock and roll as a euphemism for sex, and Presley's music oozed sexuality. Presley was hardly the only artist who embodied this attitude, but he was clearly a catalyst in the merger of black and white culture into something far bigger and more complex than both. The Britannica
The history of rock and roll is a history of infamy, a parade of perversion--illicit sex, drugs, rebellion against authority, and violence--in both the purveyors and consumers of it.
Marcus Reciting the Book: Cantare does not lose its more dignified association with the prophesying sacerdos (OLD 7c), as used by Horace in Carmina 3.1.4 (virginibus puerisque canto).
Outside the sacred context, however, canto has negative connotations both in regard to school declamations, as noted by Quintilian (I.O. 11.1.56, cantare, quod vitium pervasit), and in regard to public speeches. In fact, according to Quintilian, both school exercises and public speeches are equally susceptible to the flaw of cantare:
(I.O. 11.3.57) But I would rather tolerate any of these faults than the practice which now greatly afflicts all speeches, both in the courts and in the schools, namely chanting; I do not know whether this practice is more useless or more disgusting.
Rhapsodus Terpander is said to have added the harp to EPIC B.C.[647bc] Epic verses were originally sung to musical accompaniment, but after the time of Terpander, as lyric poetry became more independently cultivated, the accompaniment of stringed instruments fell into disuse;
Marckus, Reciting the Book
11 Hence, I argue first that the representation of the epic recital is highly dependent upon the representation of other public performances and, second, that epic's social image is attacked and reclaimed via its public performance.13 Epic by contrast had never suffered from such "birth defects." On the contrary, its stereotypical image is that of a bulwark of masculine values.In fact, behind the criticisms of the epic recital often lie issues about the performance of gender and social status.
In that regard, epic's position is parallel to that of rhetoric. Beginning with Aristotle's Rhetorica (1404a), critics of rhetorical performance have ascribed to lively delivery the same effect as that of acting. There is a persistent association between theatrics, bad rhetoric and effeminacy.
Rhetoric was forever at pains to disentangle itself from unwanted associations with female deception and histrionic art,
because it was viewed as the art of socially weak women and slaves,
and rhetoricians of all ages have assiduously fought against
any trace of bodily and vocal practice associated with these groups.
But NOT in Tulsa or the gathering of the theatrical performers!
But NOT in Tulsa or the gathering of the theatrical performers!
God always wants to know:Should it be said, O house of Jacob: "Is the Spirit of the LORD angry? Does he do such things?" "Do not my words do good to him whose ways are upright? Mi 2:7
Aristotle, Rhetoric" Melody Deceives "for instance "having gone and having conversed with him," or, "having gone, I conversed with him."Also the practice of Antimachus is useful, that of describing a thing by the qualities it does not possess; thus, in speaking of the hill Teumessus, hesays,Lately my people have risen up like an enemy. You strip off the rich robe from those who pass by without a care, like men returning from battle. Mi 2:8
If a liar and deceiver comes and says, 'I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer' he would be just the prophet for this people! Mi 2:11
4. THE MARK OF ZOE (Lucifer) like the "bite" on the rear of Gannymede.There is a little windswept hill;
"for in this way amplification may be carried on ad infinitum. This method may be applied to things good and bad, in whichever way it may be useful.
"Poets also make use of this in inventing words, as a melody "without strings" orâ "without the lyre"; for they employ epithets from negations, a course which is approved in proportional metaphors..
The form of diction should be neither metrical nor without rhythm. [cantillation=speak]
If it is metrical, it lacks persuasiveness, for it appears artificial, and at the same time it distracts the hearer's attention, since it sets him on the watch for the recurrence of such and such a cadence..
But, that is the Purpose Driving sowers of discord.
Of the different rhythms the heroic is dignified, but lacking the harmony of ordinary conversation; the iambic is the language of the many, wherefore of all meters it is most used in common speech;
but speech should be dignified and calculated to rouse the hearer.
Plato: Apology of Socrates and Crito crito,17.2 speaking directly to the charismatic prophesying being practiced by the women in Corinth:
hoi korubantiôntes: here a species of madness seems to be indicated,
- under the influence of which men
- imagined that they heard the flutes
- that were used in Corybantian revels.
- and the song of the bacchanals in Eur. Bacch. 123-127,
- Corybantes, wearing helms three-rimmed,
- Stretched skins to make my drum's full round;
- Then they, in hollowed caves, lithe-limbed,
- With drums, and, with the flute's shrill sound
- Full Phrygian, bacchic ditties hymned.
This is Paul's meaning of "clanging brass and tinkling cymbals" which, in church, was equated to speaking in tongues.
See David Faust for the full definition of speakers, singers and musicians as hypocrites
5. THE MARK OF GOD POURING OUT HIS WRATH.Hippolytus V notes the common view that the the TREE in the garden was NAAS who used the serpent or Nachash as a musical enchanter to seduce Adam and Eve into homosexuality.
Elohim the father, seeing these things, sends forth Baruch, the third angel among his own, to succour the spirit that is in all men. Baruch then coming, stood in the midst of the angels of Edem, that is, in the midst of paradise-for paradise is the angels, in the midst of whom he stood,-and issued to the man the following injunction:
Ezekiel concurs identifying the Assyrians as the TREE in Eden."Of every tree that is in paradise thou mayest freely eat, but thou mayest not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, [Gen. ii. 16, 17. ] which is Naas.
Now the meaning is, that he should obey the rest of the eleven angels of Edem, for the eleven possess passions, but are not guilty of transgression.
Naas, however, has committed sin, for he went in unto Eve, deceiving her, and debauched her; and (such an act as) this is a violation of law.
He, however, likewise went in unto Adam,
and had unnatural intercourse with him; and this is itself also a piece of turpitude, whence have arisen adultery and sodomy.
That is why the HYPOCRITES defined by Jesus pointing to prophecy are rhetoricians, singers and musicians will EAT YOU UP and nest in your branches. Sounds fair to me.Ezek 31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him:
the fir trees were not like his boughs,
and the chestnut trees were not like his branches;
nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.Fir: Berowsh (h1265) ber-osh'; of uncert. der.; a cypress tree; hence a lance or a musical instrument (as made of that wood): - fir (tree).
Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down. Zec.11:2
Ezek 31:9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches:
so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.Ezek 31:10 Therefore thus saith the Lord God;
Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height,
and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs,
and his heart is lifted up in his height;
Ezek 31:11 I have therefore delivered him
into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen;
he shall surely deal with him:
I have driven him out for his wickedness.Ezek 31:12 And strangers [prostitutes-musicians], the terrible of the nations,
have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains
and in all the valleys his branches are fallen,
and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land;
and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow,
and have left him.
The Branch of the terrible ones in Isaiah is:
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..
The Judas Bag always attached to a flute case of perverted musician-assassins (Sicarri) points to Judas' FAILURE to triumph over Jesus. However, the mocking Levitical musicians would mock Him to the Cross.
Now, Terry Rush probably cannof find a legalistic Law saying: Thou shalt not be a hypocrite or make yourself look effeminate and vile.
Paul in defining the synagogue in Romans 2 rejected SELF-pleasing which connects directly to the use of music to enchant or charm. The word REPROACHES predicted about Jews would guard against the sexual and homosexual outbreaks if the church permitted any kind of music. For some references to ORGE or ORGY produced by instrumental music Click Here.
[10.3.15] They invented names appropriate to the flute, and to
the noises made by castanets, cymbals, and drums,
and to their acclamations and shouts of "ev-ah," and stampings of the feet;
and they also invented some of the names by which to designate the [homosexual, emasculated]ministers, choral dancers, and attendants upon the sacred rites,
I mean "Cabeiri" and "Corybantes" and "Pans" and "Satyri" and "Tityri,"and they called the god "Bacchus," and Rhea [Eve] "Cybele" or "Cybebe" or "Dindymene" according to the places where she was worshipped. Sabazius also belongs to the Phrygian group and in a way is the child of the Mother,,
6. THE MARK OF A CROOKED AND PERVERTED GENERATION
"The physiological act of sex and orgasm not only greatly enhances the prospects, but also fires up further excitement.
"Repeatedly induced states of orgasmic collapse can produce, and have been used to produce, states of deep trance."
This is precisely the sexual purpose of an orgy as religious rite, and, in part, what the Greek God APOLLO fed CYPARISSUS in the wilds. The orgia, from which our word orgy is derived, of THE MYSTERY RELIGIONS of DIONYSOS and his homosexual SATYRS, were (in addition to the magic mushrooms and other psychoactive potions) rituals of this kind.
Candidates for initiation into the KABIRI were crowned with a garland of olive and wore a purple band round their loins. The dancing was then begun.
In fact, homosexuality was part of the ritual, what the historians in their scholarly dungeons called their "most immoral tendencies." The purpose was to evoke a passage beyond earth to a higher life. That is, "to lead the worshipers into the presence of the gods."
That is, in their mystical dances, continue into the air achieves a shamanic state of trance, a transfer of consciousness analogous to the transformation of the magician into a bird whereby the apprentice masters his powers to join a gay brotherhood "who, by nature, are superior to other men." Resource
Tubal-Cain is a Kabir, "an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron"; or, if this will please better, he is one with Hephaestos or Vulcan -- Vul-cain, the greatest god also with the later Egyptians, and the greatest Kabir. The god of time was Chium in Egypt, or Saturn, or Seth, and Chium is the same as Cain.
Jabal is taken from the Kabiri -- instructors in agriculture, "such as have cattle," and Jubal is "the father of those who handle the harp," he, or they who fabricated the harp for Kronos and the trident for Poseidon.
The timeless Kabiri
From Theosociety.org
Of the rites of Dionysus condemned by Paul in First Corinthians and the wine drinking musical worship in Ephesus:
Also resembling these rites are the Cotytian and the Bendideian rites practiced among the Thracians, among whom the Orphic rites had their beginning. Now the Cotys who is worshipped among the Edonians, and also the instruments used in her rites, are mentioned by Aeschylus; for he says,
O adorable Cotys among the Edonians, and ye who hold mountain-ranging instruments;
And he mentions immediately afterwards the attendants of Dionysus: one, holding in his hands the bombyces (reed flute),
toilsome work of the turner's chisel,
fills full the fingered melody, the call that brings on frenzy, while another causes to resound the bronze-bound cotylae. (cupped cymbals or vases) "and again, stringed instruments raise their shrill cry, and frightful mimickers from some place unseen bellow like bulls, and the semblance of drums, as of subterranean thunder, rolls along, a terrifying sound.Note: In connection with this bold use of "semblance" (eikôn) by Aeschylus, note Strabo's studied use of "resembles" (eoike, twice in this paragraph) and "unlikely" (apeikos). Others either translate eikôn "echo," or omit the thought.
When the pagan prophetesses performed their RITES often using singing and instruments the claimed to be able to LEAD YOU into the presence of the Gods. These RITES created PANIC or the burden of "spiritual anxiety created by religious rituals" which Jesus died to SILENCE. Remember that the Greeks defined the BEAST in Revelation as PAN. His horns were musical pan pipes which tyrants used to gain their own mountain kingdom.
By commanding that older men raise holy PALMS that would guard against the women who naturally fell into waving unholy arms. Paul said for men to do that WITHOUR WRATH meaning to guard against an OGRY marked by singing, clapping, playing and doing "body worship" where female singers were "always happy to serve in the harem of the gods."
I am reviewing Mark Henderson's false claim and the MUSIC issue is heavy handed in the New Testament. You must begin in Psalms 41 which prophesied that Judas would fail to ALARM Jesus which is the same word OUTLAWED for the "church in the wilderness." This means to make loud instrumental and vocal sound. No secular scholar or artist missed what preachers miss in getting their PhDuhOrge I. natural impulse or propension: one's temper, temperament, disposition, orgę , hę, II. passion, anger, wrath, 3. Panos orgai panic fears (i. e. terrors sent by Pan), Eur.:--but, orgę tinos anger against a person or at a thing, Soph.; hierôn orgas wrath at or because of the rites, Aesch.
G3709 orge or-gay' From G3713 ; properly desire (as a reaching forth or excitement of the mind), that is, (by analogy) violent passion... wrath.
G3713 oregomai; to stretch oneself, that is, reach out after (long for):covet after, desire.
G3735 oros or'-os perhaps akin to G142 ; compare G3733 ); a mountain (as lifting itself above the plain):Orgi-a , iôn, ta, secret rites, secret worship, practised by the initiated, of the rites of the Cabeiri [homosexuals] and Demeter, of Orpheus, of Cybele, most freq. of the rites of Dionysus .2.81, E.Ba.34, al., Theoc.26.13.
II. generally, RITES, orgia Mousôn [Rev 18:22] Ar.Ra.356 . Aphroditęs [similar to Lucifer or Zoe].
Org-aô I. to be getting ready to bear, growing ripe for something,
II. of men, like sphrigaô, swell with lust, wax wanton, be rampant, ho ep' aphrodisiois mainomenos . . orgôn Poll.6.188 ; of human beings and animals, to be in heat, desire sexual intercourse, .2. generally, to be eager or ready, to be excited, Lakedaimoniôn orgôntôn emellon peirasesthai Th.4.108 ; orgôntes krinein judge under the influence of passion,
Aphrodisiois mainomenos . .
Aphrodisios [From Aphroditę]
I. belonging to Aphrodite,
II. Aphrodisia, ta, sexual pleasures, .
2. a festival of Aphrodite,Aphrodisiois mainomenos . .Paul warned that the speaking and singing in Corinth would make them look MAD.
Mainomai I. to rage, be furious, Hom.; ho maneis the madman, Soph.: to be mad with wine, Od.:--of Bacchic frenzy, Il., Soph.; hupo tou theou m. to be driven mad by the god, Hdt.; to mainesthai madness, Soph.; plein ę mainomai more than madness, Ar.:--c. acc. cogn., memęnôs ou smikran noson mad with no slight disease, Aesch.
Jesus and John marked the imported clergy in Jerusalem as "a generation of vipers" to who Jesus refused to preach and John refused to Baptize. Salvation was FROM that crooked generation marked by perverted males.
In Acts 2 Peter said that they should save themselves from that crooked generation. John called them a generation of vipers not fit for baptism and Jesus called them a generation like children [that PLAY word] consigning pipers, singers and dancers to the marketplace whre all of the other crooked or skolion singing took place along with the singers and dancers.
We have collected lots of information about the CROOKED GENERATION and it radically associates singing and playing instruments with the symposia of often perverted men. Even there, when they wanted to "speak one to another" they sent the flute-girl out.
Crooked of counsel, Skolio-boulos, was an epithet of Kronos.
Skolios 1 curved, winding, twisted, tangled, Lat. obliquus, Hdt., Eur., etc.:-- bent sideways, douleię kephalę skolię (Hor. stat capite obstipo) Theogn.: metaph. crooked, i. e. unjust, unrighteous , Il., Hes., etc.; skolia prattein, eipein Plat.:--so adv. skoliôs, Hes.
Prattein, Prassô II. experience certain fortunes, achieved bondage, i.e. brought it on himself, grant power of song, get something, plot, 3. of sexual intercourse, b. esp. of secret practices and intrigues
Charis for his pleasure, for his sake, glôssęs charin for one's tongue's pleasure, hy pleasure or sake, for the sake of my flesh, for the pleasure of devouring it, prassein, 4. love-charm, philtre, charizesthai (1.2), indulge, humour, orgęi,Skolios MEANING: ithunei skolion makes the crooked one straight, Hes.Op.7; s. kai phoberos
Charizomai charizô , fut. chariô 3. in erotic sense, grant favours to a man,
Hes.Op.7; Hesoid Works and Days: (ll. 1-10) Muses of Pieria who give glory through song, come hither, tell of Zeus your father and chant his praise. Throug him mortal men are famed or un-famed, sung or unsung alike, as great Zeus wills. For easily he makes strong, and easily he brings the strong man low; easily he humbles the proud and raises the obscure, and easily he straightens the crooked and blasts the proud, -- Zeus who thunders aloft and has his dwelling most high.Attend thou with eye and ear, and make judgements straight with righteousness. And I, Perses, would tell of true things.
(ll. 11-24) So, after all, there was not one kind of Strife alone, but all over the earth there are two. As for the one, a man would praise her when he came to understand her; but the other is blameworthy: and they are wholly different in nature.
For one fosters evil war and battle, being cruel: her no man loves; but perforce, through the will of the deathless gods, men pay harsh Strife her honour due. But the other is the elder daughter of dark Night, and the son of Cronos who sits above and dwells in the aether, set her in the roots of the earth: and she is far kinder to men. She stirs up even the shiftless to toil; for a man grows eager to work when he considers his neighbour, a rich man who hastens to plough and plant and put his house in good order; and neighbour vies with is neighbour as he hurries after wealth.
This Strife is wholesome for men. And potter is angry with potter, and craftsman with craftsman, and beggar is jealous of beggar, and minstrel of minstrel.
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
Skoliopos looking askew, oblique psagios
PsagiosPaul whose outlawing of SELF-pleasure outlawed arousal singing and music which always identified the Demagogue "who appeases people using all of the popular arts. He also spoke of he crooked as also PERVERSE?
A. oblique, askew, metaph., mal ŕ propos, blundering, ei par melos erchomai psagion (sic codd. vett.) oaron ennepôn Pi.N.7.69 : psagion: plagion, loxon [indirect language, oracles of Apollos], epikeklimenon, Hsch.; psadion: katantes, Id.
Pindar, Nemean 7: May the rest of my days approach benevolently. Anyone who knows the truth will declare whether I follow a path that is out of tune [melos], singing a twisted song.[70] Sogenes, of the Euxenid clan, I swear that I did not overstep the line when I hurled, like a bronze-cheeked javelin,[72] my swift tongue--a throw that disqualifies a man's strong neck from the sweat of the wrestling-match, before his limbs fall under the burning sun. If there was toil, greater delight follows.[75] Let me go on. If I rose too high and shouted loudly, I am not too rude to pay my debt of gratitude to the victor. It is easy to weave garlands. Strike up the song! The Muse welds together gold and white ivory with coral, the lily she has stolen from beneath the ocean's dew.[80][80] But in remembrance of Zeus and in honor of Nemea, whirl a far-famed strain of song, softly. On this spot it is fitting to sing with a gentle voice of the king of gods.
Melos Melos B. esp. musical member, phrase: hence, song, strain, first in h.Hom.19.16 opposite rhuthmos, rhęma, Id.Lg.656c;
Opposite RHEMA that which is spoken. Opposite work ergma, ergon [or hands, drama, poetry]3. melody of an instrument, phorminx d' au phthengoith' hieron m. ęde kai aulos Thgn.761 ; aulôn pamphônon m. Pi.P.12.19 ; pęktidôn melę S.Fr.241 : generally, tone, m. boęs E.El.756 . [In h.Merc.502 theos d' hupo kalon aeisen must be read for theos d' hupo melos aeisen, and Hellęsin d' aidôn melea kai elegous is corrupt in Epigr. ap. Paus.10.7.6.]
Do all things without murmurings and disputings: Phil 2:14
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke,
in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; Phil 2:15
Crooked: G4646 skolios skol-ee-os' From the base of G4628 ; warped, that is, winding; figuratively perverse:—crooked, froward, untoward.
Perverse: G1294 diastrephō dee-as-tref'-o From G1223 and G4762 ; to distort, that is, (figuratively) misinterpret, or (morally) corrupt:—perverse (-rt), turn away.
G4762 strephō stref'-o Strengthened from the base of G5157 ; to twist, that is, turn quite around or reverse (literally or figuratively): convert, turn (again, back again, self, self about
Epi-strephô in Liddel And Scott.
G5157 tropē trop-ay' From an apparently primary word τρέπω trepō (to turn); a turn (“trope”), that is, revolutionvariation):--turning. (figuratively
Tropos , IV. in Music, like harmonia, a particular mode, Audios t. Pi.O.14.17 ; but more generally, style,neosigalos t. ib.3.4; hoarchaios t. Eup.303 ; ôidęstropos, mousikęs tropoi, Pl.R. 398c, 424c; dithurambikoi t. (distd. fr. ęthos) Phld.Mus.p.9K.; ho harmonikos tęs mousikęs t. Aristid.Quint.1.12 , cf. 2.1; of art in general, pantes tęs eikastikęs t. Phld.Po.5.7 .
See More Dithramb and the Love for boys
[595a] Socrates
“And truly,” I said, “many other considerations assure me that we were entirely right in our organization of the state, and especially, I think, in the matter of poetry. ” “What about it?” he said. “In refusing to admit at all so much of it as is imitative ; for that it is certainly not to be received is, I think,
Athenaeus v. 12. 187 says that Plato himself in the Symposium wrote worse things than the poets whom he banishes.
See the Tom Burgess literature on Athenaeus and others which proves that the PSALLO word always identified older males plucking the Harp to seduce young boys.
Pi.O.14.17 Pindar Olympian 14 Not even the gods arrange dances or feasts without the holy Graces, who oversee everything [10] that is done in heaven; with their thrones set beside Pythian Apollo of the golden bow, they worship the everlasting honor of the Olympian father.
[13] Lady Aglaia, and Euphrosyne, lover of dance and song, daughters of the strongest god, [15] listen now; and you, Thalia, passionate for dance and song, having looked with favor on this victory procession, stepping lightly in honor of gracious fortune. For I have come to sing [aeido] of Asopichus in Lydian melodies [tropoi] victorious at Olympia,
Pindar Olympian 10 [75] The lovely light of the moon's beautiful face lit up the evening[76] and in the delightfulrang with a song {aeido} in praise of victory. Even now we will follow the first beginnings, and as a namesake song of proud victory, we will shout of the thunder[80] and the fire-wrought shaft of Zeus who rouses the thunder-clap, the burning bolt that suits omnipotence. Swelling music will answer the reed-pipe in songs
Nikaô conquer, prevail in battle, in the games, or in any contest, 2. generally, overpower, esp. of passions. Regularly used wi adido in praise of victory. The Nocolaitans meaning that the TRIUMPH MUSICIANS claim victory over the LAITY--but not for long. and chosen phrases, because the Minyan land is festivities the whole precinct
7. THE MARK OF PARASITES
Remembering that Diothrephes meant "beloved of Jove." Like those who sow discord by adding instruments and say "get over it or get out" this was the patternism in Jerusalem. Hercules was the god of homosexuality.
Parasi-tus , i, m., = parasitos, lit. one who eats with another; hence, parasiti Jovis, the gods, parasitus Phoebi, a player, actor,
Diotrophes means fed by or loved by Jove!one who, by flattery and buffoonery, manages to live at another's expense, a sponger, toad-eater, parasite Comically, of a whip that he will make his elm-twigs stick to me like parasites, i. e. give me a sound flogging, The tutelar deity of parasites was Hercules
II. of priests who had their meals at the public expense,
Corrupting the Words of God: 2 Cor 2:17 For we are not as MANY, which CORRUPT the word OF God: but as of sincerity, but as OF Christ. God speak we God, in the sight
"One corrupts the Word of God simply by selling it: how can you not diminish the meaning of "Jesus paid it all" of "the free water of the Word" or "preached the gospel to you without charge" and make the written word of the Living Word subservient to those labeled rhetoricians or sophists meaning "hypocrites" or those using the performing arts?Kapeleuo (g2585) kap-ale-yoo'- (a huckster); to retail, i.e. (by impl.) to adulterate (fig.): - corrupt kapęl-euô , A. to be a retail-dealer, drive a petty trade... kapęleu' drive a trade, chaffer with your vegetable food Hdt.1.155
2. metaphor mathęmata sell learning by retail, hawk it about, 2 Ep.Cor.2.17; so eoiken ou kapęleusein machęn will not peddle in war, tęi Chariti [perverted GRACES], traffic in grants of citizenship, of prostitutes, ton bion playing tricks with life,All of those being "handled" by the NACC agents appeal to the Levites and Priests during the curse of animal sacrifices. Those operatives were called PARASITES in the sacrificial systems. When people were better informed and the sacrifical altars were shut down the PRIESTLY class continued to force people to feed them. A parasite is a synonym for a guitarist. People knew that they were useless and unfit for decent society.
See the story in 2 Maccabees: also the MARK of the Gymnasium fad
The Homosexual Roots of the Nazi Party: The tensions which led to the Jewish revolt were exacerbated when the Jewish high priest, a Hellenist himself, offered a sacrifice to Heracles (Hercules) who was a Greek symbol of homosexuality. Riley adds,'The Jewish temple itself became the scene of pagan sacrificial meals and sexual orgies [including homosexuality].' The final insult (for which Antiochus is identified in the Bible as the archtype of the antichrist)'was the installation in the temple of a pagan symbol, possibly a representation of Zeus [Baal], called by a sardonic pun 'the abomination of desolation'' (ibid.:16).
Clement Contra Heresies.
It is not, then, without reason that the poets call him a cruel wretch and a nefarious scoundrel. It were tedious to recount his adulteries of all sorts, and debauching of boys.
Hercules, the son of Zeus-a true son of Zeus-was the offspring of that long night, who with hard toil accomplished the twelve labours in a long time, but in one night deflowered the fifty daughters of Thestius, and thus was at once the debaucher and the bridegroom of so many virgins.
For your gods did not even abstain from boys, homosexuals one having loved Hylas, another Hyacinthus, another Pelops, another Chrysippus, and another Ganymede.Let such gods as these be worshipped by your wives, and let them pray that their husbands be such as these-so temperate; that, emulating them in the same practices, they may be like the gods.
Such gods let your boys be trained to worship, that they may grow up to be men with the accursed likeness of fornication on them received from the gods. But it is only the male deities, perhaps, that are impetuous in sexual indulgence.Bômoloch-euomai ,
A.play the buffoon, play low tricks, in Music, Ar.Nu.969, Lesbios ôido,
Latin, coprea of the Dung Hill.
Of the Lesbian Singers.
ôidos , A.singer, second-rate musician, a cockcrow, II. the cup passed round when a scolion was sung,Jesus DID cast out the musical ministrels LIKE DUNG.Aristophanes, Clouds 961 Just.Ar.Nu.969 Then again, their master would teach them, not sitting cross-legged, to learn by rote a song, either pallada persepolin deinan or teleporon ti boama raising to a higher pitch the harmony which our fathers transmitted to us. But if any of them were to play the buffoon, or to turn any quavers, like these difficult turns the present artists make after the manner of Phrynis, he used to be thrashed, being beaten with many blows, as banishing the Muses.
Terry Rush: 3. Authority of Silence of the Scriptures is surely created by man. It seems very important to some as this guides their doctrinal stances. Where does the Word address it? I believe argumentative Christians made this one up to get their way when they couldn't get it any other.Beginning with the Bible, all church fathers and founders of denominations rely on the commands, examples and inferences of the Word of God for those who have a love for the truth. Grace is a code word meaning: "We gonna do a legalistic end run" by denying God the authority they TAKE for themselves--and pay them too.
Anyone who has used the Law of Silence--without needing too--almost always did so by those demanding to GET THEIR WAY by imposing musical instruments knowing that they were sowing discord. You NEED no "law" to keep on NOT doing what you have NEVER done and that which is intended to SOW DISCORD and steal their "money tree."
The Iamblichus
There are some, however, who suppose there is likewise, the subject-race of a tricky nature, artful, and assuming all shapes, turning many ways, that personates gods and dćmons and souls of the dead like actors on the stage; and that through these everything that seems to be good or bad is possible. They are led to form this judgment because these subject-spirits are not able to contribute anything really beneficial as relates to the soul, nor even to perceive such things; but on the other hand, they ill treat, deride, and often impede those who are returning to virtue.
They are likewise full of conceit, and take delight in vapors and sacrifices.
5. Because the begging priest with open mouth attempts in many ways to raise our expectations. Note 13
13. The agurtes or begging priest generally belonged to the worship of Rhea [ZOE] or Cybele, the Mother. He is frequently depicted in a most unfavorable light. Apuleius speaks of a company of these emasculate priests in the eighth book of the Metamorphoses. They are also described in the Republic of Plato:"Agurtć and Mantics frequent the houses of the rich and persuade them that they possess a power granted by the gods to expiate, by sacrifices and chants any unjust act that has been committed and that they induce the gods by blandishments and magic rites to help them.
They collected money in this way, and they also followed the selling of nostrums and telling of fortunes."Most of those IMPOSING and sowing discord use as justification, we are SHORT of paying our debts. Any Bible reader would understand that the Spirit OF Christ through the prophets rest totally on defending the WORD in opposition to the priestlings and warrior musicians.
Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me
are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts,
which dwelleth in mount Zion. Isa 8:18
And when they shall say unto you,
Seek unto them that have familiar spirits,
and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter:
should not a people seek unto their God?
for the living to the dead? Isa 8:19
The familiar spirit is a dry, empty wineskin. It serves as the echo chamber of the nebel which means 'VILE.' It has the same meaning as the harp and the sounding gongs in 1 Cor. 13.
The Wizzard is one who thinks that they can hear the Word of God "beyond the sacred page." John called them sorcerers because they used rhetoric, singers and instrumentalists to STEAL the Word and money from othersYiddeoniy (h3049) yid-deh-o-nee'; from 3045; prop. a knowing one; spec. a conjurer; (by impl.) a ghost: - wizard.To the law and to the testimony:
"In Isa 8:19 the 'obhoth and yidh'onim are spoken of those who 'chirp and mutter." These terms refer to the necromancers themselves who practiced ventriloquism in connection with their magical rites. In Isa 29:4 it is said 'Thy voice shall be as an 'obh, out of the ground.'... They are stamped in these passages, as in the Witch of Endor narrative, as deceivers practising a fraudulent art. By implication their power to evoke spirits with whom they were in familiar intercourse is denied." (Int Std Bible Ency., ency, p. 690) Also see
if they speak not according to this word,
it is because there is no light in them. Isa 8:20
Because we know that singing as a ACT was added in the year 373 from the Syriac church and caused discord along with singing by Ephraim, it is foolish to accuse the Church of Christ of being argumentative and evil:
As Speak or Read separates the learned from the ignorant who sing, why not accept Paul's direct command to SPEAK or READ?To Ephraim pertains the high and unique distinction of having originated-or at least given its living impulse to-a new departure in sacred literature; and that, not for his own country merely, but for Christendom.
To the Hymns, on which chiefly his fame rests, the Syriac ritual in all its forms owes much of its strength and richness;From him came, if not the first idea, at all events the first successful example,
of making song an essential constituent of public worship,
and an exponent of theological teaching;
and from him it spread and prevailed through
the Eastern Churches, and affected even those of the West.
and to them is largely due the place which Hymnody holds throughout the Church everywhere.
From a few lines of Proba's work can be seen the problems with this approach: little of what was created could justifiably be placed alongside the great works of the past, and since that was an implicit target the failure to meet it was embarrassing;more pressingly, such Christianisations did not appeal to the highly educated, who preferred to read the imitated originals, and did not appeal to Christians who would not otherwise have read the originals, who needed something written to their own culture and not to that of a past eliteJesus explaining SPIRIT SPEAK explains why purely mercinaries would NEVER hear the truth because they lack the power to read black text on white paper. Paul told the Roman Jews that they had LOST that power at Mount Sinai.
Plato Protagoras: Socrates [347d] such is their lack of education--put a premium on flute-girls by hiring the extraneous voice of the flute at a high price, and carry on their intercourse by means of its utterance.
But where the party consists of thorough gentlemen who have had a proper education, you will see neither flute-girls [aulętridas] nor dancing-girls [orchęstridas] nor harp-girls,
but only the company contenting themselves with their own conversation, and none of these fooleries and frolics--each speaking and listening decently in his turn,
It is true about spending millions on buildings and false teachers but if the church did everything wrong, that would not prove that God is silent: that through Divine ignorance He left a hole in the donut to be corrected by "doctors of the Law" Whom Jesus said "take away the key to knowledge."
Terry Rush: Those who stick by their guns on this one abandon it quickly when it comes to justifying the millions they spend on church buildings....of which the Word is silent
Wishful thinking! The Spirit of Christ commanded "teaching that which had been delivered to them" even in the church in the wilderness. It matters not whether you stand in in the snow or build a cover. The one is both inclusive and exclusive: the buildings were approved by the synagogue which was not a "worship center" or "a theater for holy entertainment." Preaching in fact was outlawed other than reading and explaining the READ text.
The old "God didn't authorize toilet tissue" argument! First, any reader of the Bible from end to end knows that God was NOT silent about music. Secondly, the purpose driving the synagogue or ekklesia is to be a school of the Bible. You can conduct a school of the Bible in or out of a building: you CANNOT conduct Bible class with simple simons singing their OWN "inspired" songs. Mortal sin in fleecing the widows to build mega churches does not give you authority to violated commands, examples, inferences and minimal common reverence for God and His Word.
Jesus attended the synagogue each sabbath where Moses was PREACHED by being READ. They understood that SABBATH meanst REST and now worship SERVICE. the Miqra (left) defines the church in the wilderness EXCLUSIVELY. That never changed even as Paul defined ekklesia/synagogue in Romans and the not "musical" passages.
EXCLUDED: They could BLOW to signal the assembly: the trumpets were ONLY to send signals. Perhaps that is why Paul connected the unclear trumpet SIGNALS to the singing and speaking in tongues in Corinth.
However, they could not sound the ALARM or TRIUMPH OVER. This word includes the following:
Ruwa (h7321) roo-ah'; to mar by breaking; fig. to split the ears with sound, i. e. shout for alarm or joy: - blow an alarm, cry (alarm, aloud, out), destroy, make a joyful noise, smart, shout (for joy), sound an alarm, triumph.
"Here are directions concerning the public notices to be given the people by sound of trumpet. Their laws in every case were to be Divine, therefore, even in this matter Moses is directed. These trumpets typify the preached gospel. It sounds an alarm to sinners, calls them to repent, proclaims liberty to the captives and slaves of Satan, and collects the worshippers of God. It directs and encourages their heavenly journey; stirs them up to combat against the world and sin, encouraging them with the assurance of victory. It leads their attention to the sacrifice of Christ, and shows the Lord's presence for their protection.
8. THE MARK OF VIOLATING DIRECT COMMANDS AND APPROVED EXAMPLES AND COMMON DECENCY.It is also necessary that the gospel trumpet give a distinct sound, according to the persons addressed, or the end proposed; whether to convince, humble, console, exhort, reprove, or teach. The sounding of the trumpet of the gospel is God's ordinance, and demands the attention of all to whom it is sent. Matthew Henry
If you MAKE MUSIC or HYPOCRITICAL RHETORIC you cannot HEAR HIM!
Eph 5:19a Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,How did ignorant, Southern rednecks invent NOT using machines when not even the Catholics dared do congregational singing of Psalms with instrumental accompaniment, and none of the denominations which fled into The Church of Christ USED instruments why would those to keep on NOT doing what they NEVER did need to be LEGALISTIC in order to become SECTARIAN?
Logik-os, ( [logos] ) A. of or for speaking or speech, merę l. the organs of speech, speech, opposite to mousikę,
Loquor [Sanscr. lap-, to talk, whisper; to speak, talk, say (in the lang. of common life, in the tone of conversation;
A. To speak, declare, show, indicate or express clear
Psilos IV. logos ps. bare language, i. e. prose, opp. to poetry which is clothed in the garb of metre
Melos B. esp. musical member, phrase: hence, song, strain, first in h.Hom.19.16
opposite rhuthmos, rhęma, Id.Lg.656c;
Opposite RHEMA that which is spoken. Opposite work ergma, ergon [or hands, drama, poetry]
Only those ignoring the Bible and all of church history use the LAW of silence: specificially articulated. The LAW did not say "thou shalt NOT use machines for hard work so WE gonna add them KNOWING that we will deliberately sow discord.
The NOT mechanical view was understood pre-Rushites does not NEED a law of silence because we have direct commands:
1. Beginning with the Qahal, synagogue or church in the wilderness: Thou SHALT rest, read and rehearse the Word. Thou SHALT NOT make instrumental or vocal rejoicing sounds. Why? Why, because in a school of the Bible even simple simon knew not to bring his bone flute.
2. Continuing with the synagogue for the "civilians" to quarantine them from the sacrificial system quite identical to that of Tyre or Babylon because God ABANDONED them to it BECAUSE of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai.
3. Continuing with the approved example of Jesus who stood up to READ and had the uncommon decency to sit down and dialog.
4. Continuing by the word EKKLESIA which was for instructional speaking only and which ROPED OFF using the PSALLO ROPE the polluted singers, musicians and perverts in the Agora. This is where Jesus consigned the Pipers, Singers and Dancers.
5. Continuing with Paul's direct command in Romans 14 which readers understood lots of music in Rome and limiting the "synagogue" to speaking that which was written with one mind and one mouth.
6. Continuing before the pagans introduced singing as an ACT in the yer 373.
When Paul demanded that we not SELF-pleasure he connected this to the reproaches prophesied of Messiah: they would musically mock Him and "expose His private parts." Self pleasure is the WordRomans XV. debemus autem nos firmiores inbecillitates infirmorum sustinere et non nobis placere
Outlawed: Placeo to please, to be pleasing or agreeable, to be welcome, acceptable, to satisfy (class.).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
1. In scenic lang., of players or pieces presented, to please, find favor, give satisfaction: scenico placentiOutlawed: 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-ętęs II. composer of a poem, author, p. kômôidias Pl.Lg.935e; p. kainôn dramatôn, b. composer of music, 2. author of a speech
Outlawed: 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 HELLOutlawed: 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.
Terry Rush: True, very true, the Bible has enough of it's own marvelous depth to keep us at bay in admitted ignorance. It is a Life-giving stream which washes us in newness day by day. It's freshness will not be bottled and sold as "this is the way, the only way" based upon man's understanding.That is why Jesus guaranted an example (written) so that we would be supplied for many lifetimes: few preachers READ that which has been delivered to us.
Paul commanded that we "sing" that which is written and teach that which has been taught. Nothing hard about doing ekklesia, synagogue or school of the Bible. The only problem with WAYS is that all of them are invented by humans totally underemployed. There is absolutely nothing for us to do other than as the Campbells demanded that church be "a school of Christ" and worship be "reading and musing the Word." This is exactly what the Spirit of Christ commanded in the wilderness.
Jeremiah 6:13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them
Every one is given to covetousness;
and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.Jeremiah 6:14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly,
saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.Jeremiah 6:15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?
nay, they were not at all ashamed,
neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall:
at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.Jeremiah 6:16 Thus saith the Lord,
Stand ye in the ways, and see,
and ask for the old paths, where is the good way,
and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
Rest is:
Margowa (h4771) mar-go'-ah; from 7280; a resting place: - rest.
Margeah (h4774) mar-gay-aw'; from 7280; rest: - refreshing.The "synagogue" or church in the wilderness was commanded to REST, read and rehearse the Word as THE Holy Convocation. The Spirit Of Christ excluded vocal and instrumental rejoicing: minimal common sense when Jesus formed the "'ekklesia" to give us rest FROM the laded burdens and burden laders.
The Greek PAUO has the same meaning as the Hebrew SABBATH. Preachers have no decisions to make. We noted abouve that the REST absolutely outlaws "creating spiritual anxiety through religious rituals" as the SELF pleasure outlawed for the gathers means "creation of mental excitement."Is.28:12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
Raga (h7280) raw-gah'; a prim. root; prop. to toss violently and suddenly (the sea with waves, the skin with boils); fig. (in a favorable manner) to settle, i. e. quiet; spec. to wink (from the motion of the eye- lids): - break, divide, find ease, be a moment, (cause, give, make to) rest, make suddenly.
Je.50:34 Their Redeemer is strong; The Lord of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
Terry Rush: As great as ours gets, God will always be there saying, "My ways are not your ways, nor are My thoughts your thoughts, for My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts higher than your thoughts."
So true: that is why we are directly commanded to "sing that which is written" and "teach (read) that which has been taught" The serpent in the garden of Eden was a "singing and harp playing prostitute." She / he / it was a musical enchanter derived from the NAGA spirits and from BRASS as a new, bell-metal:
They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters. Jeremiah 6:28
Nechosheth (h5178) nekh-o'-sheth; for 5154; copper; hence, something made of that metal, i. e. coin, a fetter; fig. base (as compared with gold or silver): - brasen, brass, chain, copper, fetter (of brass), filthiness, steel.
Nechuwshah (h5154) nekh-oo-shaw'; or nuchushah nekh-oo-shaw'; fem. of 5153; copper: - brass, steel. Comp. 5175
Nachash (h5175) naw-khawsh'; from 5172; a snake (from its hiss): - serpent.
Terry Rush: When one couples that with our man-made inventions (and we deny such trying to pawn it off onto God as if He said it), the wheels of outreach eventually succumb to the stress of trying to remember exactly how all of this goes.Very simple: just sing that which is written with one mind and one mouth: that is what you do in a ekklesia or school of the Bible.
Even simpler: let the vocational Pastor-Teachers and deacons "teach that which has been taught" and "refute those who oppose it." Send the evangelists OUT.
Maybe it will come as a surprise to Terry and Rick Atchley who get their PATTERNISM from the Kingdom period in which God abandoned the nation to worship the starry hosts ON THEIR way to captivity and death. The Spirit OF Christ did not inspire the sacrificial system as LEGALISTIC PATTERNISM and a curse. The Spirit OF Christ spoke through the prophets to denounce all that Israel did under the monarchy including the use of music. Most of the prophets utterly denounce musical instruments as a MARK that people refused to listen to God.
Yes, it is a Biblical and historical fact: God denounced parasites and musicians from Lucifer the "singing and harp playing prostitute" in the garden of Eden to the Mother of harlots (Rev 17) who used the "lusted after fruits" as rhetoricians, singers and musicians John called SORCERERS (Rev 18).
Terry means WE are wrong about instrumental music! Isn't it amazing or amusing that the Spirit OF Christ has so much to say against music in the prophets and WE just made up the "anti-instrumental position" -- so they claim -- because we are just mean and legalistic. Jesus did not design the "school of the Bible" to which we have added preaching, singing and giving as OUTREACH. He ordained that evangelists as suffering servants preach the gospel and not worry about "preacher count." The Campbells removed the stress by making Church mean "a school of Christ" and worship "reading and musing the Word." That removes the stress: he said that no one has the authority to add anxiety or stress such as debt./
Jesus removed the STRESS or laded burden as "spiritual anxiety created by religious ritual." Paul outlawed it as SELF-pleasure which a HERETIC uses on others to create "mental excitement" to LIFT them up to carry them away for his own uses. The "spiritual anxiety created by religious rituals" or the SELF-pleasure caused by "mental excitement" is the MARK that heretics have planned to put you in his sheepfold to fleece, slaugter and "chraunch your bones." Here is the STRESS of heresy.
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]. 2. catch, take, zôon (Zoe), take in hunting, get into one's power, entrap, In a legal sense: kleptontaPaul warned about worship IN the spirit as opposed to IN the flesh because outside there were the dogs or cynics using a form of 'praise singing' to mark themselves and seek out partners. The wolves in Acts 20 who let the dogs get inside are also marked:
Ores-teros , a, on, poet. for oreinos, epith. of a snake, Il.22.93 ; of wolves and lions, Od.10.212
A. orestera pambôti ga S.Ph.391 (lyr.); parthenos E.Tr.551 (lyr.); agreutęres Opp.H.4.586 . (Posit. Adj. formed from oros to, opp. agroteros from agros.)kuôn 3. of the Cynics, areskei. Pan is the kuôn of Cybele, Persephonęs kunes, of the planets, Harpies, A.R.2.289; of Hecate, in Mithraic worship, of the Bakchai, Lussas [of the new wineskins god]
[347d] such is their lack of education--put a premium on flute-girls by hiring the extraneous voice of the flute at a high price, and carry on their intercourse by means of its utterance. But where the party consists of thorough gentlemen who have had a proper education, you will see neither flute-girls nor dancing-girls nor harp-girls, but only the company contenting themselves with their own conversation, and none of these fooleries and frolics--each speaking and listening decently in his turn,
Those who steal church houses of widows to impose instruments are defined as a DEMAGOGUE who "uses the popular arts to appease masses" so that he can lift them up for himself (the meaning of heresy).suneimi: To be joined with, Intercourse is II. to have intercourse with a person, live with hędonę, desires after pleasure, pleasant lusts, voluptuosus,
Homer Odyssey 8. For among all men that are upon the earth minstrels [480] win honor and reverence, for that the Muse has taught them the paths of song, and loves the tribe of minstrels.”9. THE MARK OF LEGALISTIC PATTERNISM
The Muses are defined as prostitute sorcerers in Revelation and Jesus cast them out using a word meaning "like dung" just as He consigned the pipers, singers and dancers to the marketplace.Homer continued: If thou dost indeed tell me this tale aright, I will declare to all mankind that the god [Apollyon] has of a ready heart granted thee the gift of divine song.” So he spoke, and the minstrel, moved by the god, began, and let his song be heard, [500] taking up the tale where the Argives had embarked on their benched ships and were sailing away, after casting fire on their huts.
Anaireo, anęiręka (aneir-dub. in Com.Adesp.18.6D.): (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 hęmetera psphos a. E.Andr.517; thanatois a. Pl.Lg. 870d ; ek politeias toiauta thęria a. Din.3.19 , etc take up and carry off, snatch, take up money at interest,
Music is the OLDEST profession: people who were emotionally and sexually abnormal could "prophesy" as in singing, dancing, playing instruments and may having sex with another "prophet" to get a message from the gods. All poems are manmade of "fabrications" and not to be trusted.
The "familiar spirit" of the witch of Endor was an old, empty wineskin. By using it as a "sounding vase" she pretended that she could communicate with the dead. All musical instruments are derived from "demons or demigods" and were always used as MACHINES for, as with the Jubal family, stealing your sheep and selling them back to you. Something like TRADING your tithes and offerings for a sick sermon.The development both of religion and of the arts can be traced back in a continuous line to the hunting era. The group ritual of the primeval tribesmen were the origin not only of all religious ceremonial, but also of the drama and of poetry and music, while magic gave birth to the visual arts." (Parkes, Henry Bamford, On Gods and Men, p. 30).
"Awed by the mysteries of his own spirit no less than by those of nature, primitive man was likely to attribute to divine influence any abnormal emotional state, whether above or below the usual level. Medicine men customarily went into states of trance in which they were believed to be in communication with the gods, and many tribes supposed lunatics and sexual deviants to be divinely possessed.
'Certain members of a tribe, marked out either by unusual skills or by some emotional abnormality, ususally became particularly adept at these operations, and gradually assumed specialized functions. RELEASED from the duty of hunting, and concentrating on the practice of MAGIC, the shaman, SORCERER, or medicine man was the world's first professional." (Parkes, H. Bamford, Of Gods and Men, p. 29).
A musical instrument is made with human hands as a MACHINE for doing hard work in frightening the enemy or convincing the "contributors" that the AWE they felt was the "spirits" inside:
Organa: 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.Isaiah 30 says that hell was prepared for Satan and the SOUND of God repaying His enemies is wind, string and percussion instruments. The SORCERERS (musicians Rev 18) and DOGS or catamites along with liars go there.
H8611 tôpheth to'-feth From the base of H8608 ; a smiting, that is, (figuratively) contempt:--tabret. MEANING HELL
The Organon is a MACHINE for doing hard work or for creating shock. The word ERGON is the meaning of all instrumental machines.
Organon to, ( [ergon, erdô] ) I. an implement, instrument,
A. instrument, implement, tool, for making or doing a thing
3 .musical instrument
2.organ of sense or apprehension, theaomai, gaze at, behold, mostly with a sense of wonder,
3. view as spectators, esp. in the theatreIsa 2:7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:Ergon [Ergô] I.work, 1. in Il. mostly of deeds of war, polemęďa erga, 3.a hard piece of work, a hard task, Il.: also, a shocking deed or act,
Moses said it is not the sound of VICTORY or the cry of DEFEAT but "it is SINGING that I hear." He knew that they had fallen back into musical idolatry!
Polemeios: warlike, aoida war-note, of the trumpet, B.17.4
Aoid-ę 5. = spell, incantation
Isa 2:8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
H4639 mah-as-eh' From H6213 ; a product, an action (good or bad); generally a transaction; abstractly activity; by implication a product (specifically a poem) or (generally) property:
Isa 5:12 - 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.
Isa 2:9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
Terry Rush: Wouldn't it be easier to let the Word support itself without adding our attempt at genius to help it along where it's unclear. We can trust the Word. We can't trust us. That very much includes me. I will always be in kindergarten eager to learn from Him. Such will always involves sorting the God-words from the man-ones.If you let the Word do the speaking you will outlaw SELF-pleasure and use ONE MIND and ONE MOUTH to speak "that which is written." That will educate, comfort and glorify (praise) God who wrote all of the songs and sermons. That will keep the unity of the body because Romans 14 EXCLUDES all of the practices of the FOOD SECTS all of which used music to feed the body in the same sectarian way.
Rom 15:1 WE then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselvesEasy task: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 (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).
This had the same meaning of EXTERNAL SINGING:
Aoidę 1. art of song, autar aoidęn thespesięn, spell, incantation, thing sung, song, whether of joy or sorrow,
Aeidô sing,.hence of all kinds of vocal sounds, crow as cocks, hoot as owls, croak as frogs,; hoi tettiges chamothen aisontai, crowing too soon.
The tettiges are the LOCUSTS which are the MUSES serving Apollo, Abaddon or Apollyo
God said SPEAK which is the opposite of potery or music.
Man says that SPEAM or ODE meaning "cantillation" REALLY means speak a human song with complex harmony whic scrambles the mind.
No one had any STRESS caused by singing human compositions for almost 400 years.
At minimal ethics, people should not blame THOSE WHO FEED them with inventing and imposing something new.Posted by Terry Rush at 7:14 AM
SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE HAS TRAPPED YOU IN SECTARIAN, LEGALISTIC PATTERNISM?
I will be reviewing Edward Fudges linked false teachings.
http://lookinferlearnin.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/law-of-silence/#respond
Monday, March 5th, 2007...12:47 pm
LAW OF SILENCE
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Edward Fudge: A gracEmail subscriber heard a sermon condemning instrumental music in Christian worship based on John 14:31, in which Jesus says that he does just as his Father commands. The preacher said that if we do just as God commands we cannot have instrumental music since the New Testament does not specifically command it. He called this “the law of silence.” What should we make of this?
John 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
John 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
John 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
CONDITION:
John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father,
RESULT:
and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
John 14:22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
CONDITION:
John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him,
RESULT"
and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
John 14:24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Fathers which sent me.
John 14:25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
THE COMFORTER WILL HAVE THE SAME NAME: JESUS CHRIST.
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
1Jn.2:1 MY little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
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I appreciate your preacher’s desire to obey God exactly, just as Jesus did. When it comes to the subject of instrumental music, however, exact obedience leaves the door wide open.
God does not require us to use it and he does not prohibit us from using it. It seems clear to me that God approves of instruments since Paul tells believers to be Psalm-singers (Eph. 5:19)
and several of the Psalms specifically call on God’s people to praise him with instruments (Psalm 150 is a notable example).
Further, the Greek word translated “psalm” itself includes songs sung to musical accompaniment.
A psalm, like a song is defined as
A metrical poem which can be read, recited, sung or sung with accompaniment. The fact that SONG means METRICAL or capable of being song does NOT include singing or define HOW the piece is performed.The Bible is NOT metrical and could never be sung tunefully in our sense: the harp set the pitch for a vocal tone and may have sustained it. A harp might have as few as three strings and when STRUCK in an exciting sense was like a tuned percussion instrument. The congregation never assembled for synagogue to sing and make music: there was "no praise service in the synagogue" based on direct command and minimal common sense and decency.
Neither the Bible or any literature uses the word PSALLO to mean more than pluck or play: it has no musical content unless you further define WHAT is to be plucked. Psallo is primarily a WARFARE word to identify Apollo or Apollyon of Revelation. He plucked both the bow and lyre and was the father of homosexual performances.
The second major use of PSALLO identifies the stretched rope polluted with red paint. If people dallied around the singers, pluckers and commerce of the marketplace and were late to attend the EKKLESIA for vocal instruction only, they would show up late and polluted and impure.
The third use is a methaphor for those who "shot forth tunes" or who "shot forth love arrors."
The “law of silence” approach, which assumes that anything is wrong unless it is specifically authorized, is itself not stated in the Bible.
The Temple, which early Jewish believers (including the Apostles) frequented, used musical instruments,
and Revelation freely pictures harps in heaven.
! suppose that means that the person who truly tries to follow that approach should reject it. Even if it is followed, that approach does not forbid instruments for all the reasons set out above.
Finally, nobody consistently follows that approach, since to do so would require the Lord’s Supper meetings to be held at night and upstairs, those details having been specifically noted by Scripture with no alternative examples given.
Most of all, the gospel and the New Testament are not about some pattern of external worship details, as Jesus makes clear in visiting with the Samaritan woman in John 4. What is important is that we worship truly from the heart, motivated by the Holy Spirit and with faith in Jesus Christ (“in spirit/Spirit” and “in truth”). The Mosaic covenant included Leviticus, a book of detailed regulations for worship. The new covenant under Jesus contains nothing like that, a contrast implied by the author of Hebrews 9:1).
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http://www.edwardfudge.com/gracemails/acappella_tradition_worship.html
THE ACAPPELLA TRADITION
Edward Fudge: A subscriber from the Churches of Christ writes: "I have been hearing much lately in tapes and lectureships about our 'tradition' of acappella music.
Do you see singing without accompaniment as a tradition, or as a biblical principle for public worship assemblies?"
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In the Southern United States, the Churches of Christ historically sing without instrumental accompaniment in public worship. (Outside the South, "Churches of Christ" is sometimes synonymous with "Independent Christian Churches" who do use instruments.) Other believers have also sung acappella through the years -- including early catholics,
We have noted that "singing as a ritual" was not imposed until the year 373 from the Syriac churches. This was intended to use self-composed pharaphrase or bible stories as propoganda to make religious warfare. The Eastern Catholics never used instruments and never "sang" as in the charismatic, voodoo-influenced singing of the American frontier. The Catholic church NEVER sang congregationally with instrumental accompaniment. The organ was added by rich outsiders and not by the church: it was sued by professional in composing and was not suitable for accompaniment. The organ signalled preludes, interludes and recessionals. The clergy singer never sang with instrumental accompaniment.
Edward Fudge: early protestants, and certain Presbyterians, Mennonites, Brethren and Eastern Orthodox today.
The fact is that NO ONE ever used instruments in these periods: after the Reformation the organs were removed from large cathedrals because they disturbed people going to worship and were a temptation to add to the worship. However, no one at that time had any directly Biblical commanded "text" which were metrical. Only after the Reformation were PSALMS paraphrased and set to meter to be sung but never with instrumental accompaniment. None of the denominations which flowed into the Americal Restoration Movement used instruments. All of the now-musical denominations went through periods of deliberate discord.
Edward Fudge: Christians who think that instrumental music displeases God ought not to use it, for they cannot do so in good faith. It would be sinful for them to violate their own consciences (Rom. 14:23).
If you look to the sects Paul outlaws from "discourse" in the ekklesia you will find three sects IDENTIFIED by what they bought in the marketplaces but ALL highly charismatic with induced madness by music a desired goal. Paul called it madness. Without dipping his pen Paul defined the "synagogue" where everyone could assemble as a 'school of the Bible' where giving heed to the Word is Paul's only "worship word." Paul outlawed the self pleasure or "arousal of mental excitement" which is the laded burden Jesus died to remove as "spiritual anxiety created by religious rituals." This word specificial outlawed all of the performing arts in the Greek and Latin literature.
Edward Fudge: For many of us, however, unaccompanied singing is a tradition, not a matter of scriptural requirement.
For MOST of the history of the church, using "machines for doing hard work" was outlawed and against minimal common decency when people assemble at the invitation of Jesus christ to REST and "come learn of me."
Edward Fudge: The earliest Jewish believers in Jesus continued to worship in the Temple (Acts 2:46; 3:1), where instruments were used.
The fact is that no Jewish believer including Jesus could enter into the temple. They could go no further than the open court with Solomon's porch. Not even a musical Levite could enter into the Holy Place as a type of the body of Christ without getting executed.
The official sacrificial system--imposed because of musical idolatry--had virtually ceased hundreds of years before Christ. The system was manned by NON-Israelites who had procured their office as high bidder. They were so evil that Jesus refused to speak to them other than using parables to PREVENT them from hearing. The children Jesus identified as "pipers, singers and dancers" were in fact agents of their god "Dionysus" whatever they called him. The Abomination of Deslolation had not been silenced and all of the singers, dancers and instrument players who invaded the "church house" were forced to become male prostitutes. Most faithful Israelites had fled rather than being emasculated to "wear the hat of Hermes." Click for the Maccabees record.
Edward Fudge: 150:3-5). The very word translated "Psalm" originally meant a song sung with a stringed instrument. It later included an unaccompanied song, but it kept its original meaning as well. Revelation, though symbolic, pictures harps in heavenly worship (Rev. 14:2-3).
In fact, the BOOK of Psalms has only 57 psalms or Mizmors. 7 of these and those including instruments were dedicated to certain temple functionaries (many with Canaanite names) or special purposes. None of the 50 which the Jews used have any instrumental content. The psalms were really psalms TO David: he was king and the Levitical Warrior Musicians were under the KING and commanders of the army.
Paul never commanded SING PSALMS: readers will not that the word is SPEAK to yourselves. Now, the word SPEAK is specificiall "opposite to poetry or music" because poetic language was proof of the mythmongers. The speaking of the LOGOS demanded "in a whisper or conversational tone." The Latin SERMO also demands "using a conversational tone." Any trick of rhetoric marked those Jesus identified as hyporrites by pointing to "speakers, singers and instrument players" doing MOUTH religion.
The word "psallo" which is GREEK just means pluck: there is no example anyone can point to where PSALLO or PSALM meant to "singing and play an instrument." In fact, even to pluck a harp you MUST name what is to be plucked. In the NACC proof text it ALWAYS means an older male plucking a harp to seduce a young male whose hairs had been plucked.
Edward Fudge: Through the centuries, those opposing instrumental music have argued that it is not "spiritual," or have rejected instruments because someone else used them -- whether the pagans or Jews, or Roman Catholics or "the denominations."
No one ever bothered to ARGUE except when someone intended to IMPOSE machines knowing that it would sow discord. Because Paul commanded worship in the PLACE of the human spirit specificially because worship in the flesh invited the DOGS or male prostitutes identified by their "singing styles." I doubt that those who had NEVER used instruments needed to argue that they NEVER used them because the Catholics used them. We noted that the Catholics never did what Edward defends. The reason is based on Bible literacy from Genesis to Revelation, all of church history, the REASON for church and the fact that normal humanoids reject OTHERS imposing something which forces them to abandon THEIR congregation and property.
The Jews lost their covenant of Grace BECAUSE of Musical Idolatry: only the Civil-Clergy state ever used instruments AFTER they had fired God and demanded a human king so they could WORSHIP like the other nations around them. Acts 7 has Stephen telling Bible readers that God "turned them over to worship the starry host" because of the Mount Sinai Idolatry. He also points to Amos.
The "civilians" were FORBIDDEN to get close to the Temple sacrificial system: they were commanded to synagogue to REST, READ and REHEARSE the Word. They were forbidden to make "vocal or instrumental rejoicing sounds" during "school of the Bible" or to call the assembly. No Israelite civilian ever engaged in "congregational singing with instrumental accompaniment." The synagogue always existed for those NOT abandoned to paganism.
Edward Fudge: Some early church Fathers also rejected singing in harmony. Many early protestants sang in harmony but rejected "uninspired hymns" -- singing only biblical Psalms.
Harmony in the Greek world was "sounding together" as in unison. Harmony in the modern sense did not even begin to be discovered until after about the year 1200. The "church fathers" would have had no reason to know about even very simple two part harmony. Because the direct command was to use "that which is written" and use ONE MIND and ONE MOUTH only those intending to violate direct commands would think of refusing to listen to Jesus through His Words.
The New Testament neither requires instrumental music in worship nor forbids it. What one makes of that silence has nothing to do with respect for biblical authority. It has everything to do with the human assumptions which one brings to the interpretation of Scripture.
We believe that this proves lack of in-depth discipleship even at the simple level of 'defining words.'
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