David.Faust.Temple

David Faust promoted the instrumental music position at Freed Hardeman University in 2006. Ralph Gilmore spoke for Freed Hardeman University but only David Faust's position has been actively promote by Victor Knowles and the NACC driving a hostile takeover.

See Ronnie Norman First Colony Church: The SHEPHERDING MOVEMENT from Promise Keepers etal.

Click. 9.21.07 added proof that the NACC is denying the work of Christ by promoting music knowing that they plan to sow discord.

Because all of the Direct Commands demanding instrumental noise in the "school of the Bible" are built upon the Jewish Sacrificial system and the Monarchy and Temple, it would be well to show that the sacrificial system, the king, kingdom and temple were allowed after Israel fell from Grace, you should be aware that those sowing deliberate discord to impose instruments are moving you back beyond the cross and into that which God permitted as a curse.

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

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

Because the false teachers REST on the curse of the Law and the Monarchy, the elders, preachers and artistic performers would be executed.

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

Num 18:2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister BEFORE the tabernacle of witness. [never IN]

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

H5656‛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 bearsin, and die. Numbers 18:22

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

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

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

For I spake NOT unto your fathers, nor commanded them
        in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
        concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: Jeremiah 7:22
But this thing commanded I them, saying,
       Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people:
       and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you,
       that it may be well unto you. Jeremiah 7:23
But they HEARKENED NOT, nor inclined their ear,
       but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart,
       and went backward, and not forward. Jeremiah 7:24

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

Why are people so anxious to impose the CURSE of hypocrites and parasites.

In NONE of the examples used as proof does the "congregation" involve the righteous "civilian" population: the kings called the priests, warrior musicians, trumpet blowers, civil leaders and "representatives" from the tribes called stationary men.

Wondering why FHU has invited pro-instrumentalists waving the "unity" flag, and why they, playing dumb, refused to refute David's 100% lying about the Bible and church history, we noted that:

Dye departed and started the Hendersonville Community Church. The Cultic crew recently had instrumental music as a part of their worship circus. Ken Dye is now at West End Church in Nashville, where Jim Bill McInteer preached for many years. Dye is scheduled to be at the Campbell Street Church in Jackson, Tenn, where he will hold a, "Home Inspection Series."

Ralph Gilmore, professor at Freed-Hardeman University is the preacher at Campbell Street Church. This is but another incident where, "Birds of a feather flock together." A fellow must be some more kind of liberal in order to be too rancid for the Hendersonville Church. For one to start one's own Community Church is dumbfounding. How much does a faculty member at F.H.U. need to know in order to pow-wow with liberal, cultic characters? Do you wonder why? I have no $$$ for Freed-Hardeman University, especially when one of its Bible (?) teachers is so weak, compromising, soft-soaping, as to pow-wow with an erst-while Community Church papa. Campbell Street must have a crew of children for its shepherds. Shame, shame! STOP for the story line, its beginning and the players.

Bill Swetmon was allowed to infiltrate as a "neutral" but must have been intentional.

Bill Swetmon on The Odes of Solomon church of Christ, Freed Hardeman
Bill Swetmon on Josephus and Psallo church of Christ, Freed Hardeman
Bill Swetmon on Gregory of Nyssa on Psallo Churches of Christ, Freed Hardeman
Bill Swetmon on Clement's "permission" Churches of Christ, Freed Hardeman

THE UNITY JUDAS GOAT

The Christian Chronicle - "These efforts are not about an organizational merger, but about celebrating a common heritage and focusing on a common mission," said David Faust, president of Cincinnati Christian University, at a meeting of church leaders Oct. 27-29 near Dallas.

The meeting, Ministry Impact '04, brought together 350 members of the conservative Christian Churches and of the churches of Christ for dialogue and fellowship. Together for Greater Ministry Impact '04 sponsored in part by Pepperdine. See Review

Speakers from both bodies noted the irony of the situation that prompted the meeting &emdash; the American Restoration Movement of Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone began as a unity movement, but instead produced a three-way division-- the third being The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

Truth is that there was never any UNITY between these diverse movements. Any hopes of simply meeting in the same buildings was dashed by the forming of the first Society and the Organ party which began in 1858. The Christian church SECTED out of the Disciples only in 1968.

See more notes on FHU seeking unity?

David Faust was president of the 2006 North american Christian Convention. Mark Henderson of Quail Springs is repeating the same false teachings. That brought Rick Atchley INSTRUMENTALIST and sower of discord to speak for the Non-instrumental churches of Christ. It is a fact that the NACC would never invite anyone they had not duped by previous UNITY meetings pretending that the churches of Christ SECTED out of the CHRISTIAN CHURCH in 1906 when the Christian Church still endorsed the Disciples denomination in 1906 and for another decade. The only possible motive for UNITY "fixed dialog" is ....

to claim that churches of CHRIST defected from the Christian church.

"Your" fathers and mothers did so under the influence of evil, sectarian traditionalists.

Therefore, because you are more enlightened, you need to correct the evils of your fathers.

The way to do this is to AGREE to use instruments (as your mark to allow fellowship)

Or, you must be informed and shut the mouths of those who continue to offened us by continuing to preach your old traditions.

KEYNOTE: Before you call it heresy, ask: what does PLAY mean. Why repeate the legalistic patternism of a nation abandoned to Sabazianism.

Heredotus says that all "gods" began in Egypt. Of course this was probably influenced by nations further to the east in Persia and India where the "serpent" or musical enchanter in the garden seems to have originated.

Because of Musical Idolatry at Mount Sinai God abandoned them "nationally" to the worship of the stary hosts (Acts 7, etal, etal).

This was Sabazianism and many terms identify Dionysus or Bacchus worship.

You can hear Heredotus define in great detail the Apis or bull calf worship in Egypt.

Plutarch as "proof text" along with all of those adduced by Tom Burgess etal identify the "god of the Jews" as Dionysus and that is why all of the proof texts identify older males plucking harp strings to seduce young "ministers of the gods" or other available young boy.

All "civilians" not connected to the military-civil-clergy complex were quarantined to the Qahal, synagogue or church in the wilderness. They were to REST, read and rehearse the Word of God. That is what Jesus exampled and commanded as the ekklesia which is a school of the Bible.

Just read an e-mail to that effect and have read the "frog boiling" sermons for a decade using the postmodern plan to make you HATE your father and mother and their "ignorance." I propose that NO ONE who had ever read the Bible and history could be IGNORANT: the option is evil bordering on the "lying wonders" prophesied of the end time.

Both the INSTRUMENTAL side of churches of Christ and the INSTRUMENTAL side of the Christian church have the same PLAY BOOKS and both sides of the SHAM BATTLE is or pretends to be ignorant of the entire Old and New Testaments and the history of the church.

The PLOY was to speak of unity but the NACC planned to make a full court press of twisted scriptures. One has to muse whether either "wing" had ever read the context and story line which will accuse the sowers of discord in the end. I will be happy to fill in the blanks.

I am certain that the rank and file of churches of Christ DO NOT agree with their colleges and universities SEEKING unity in some kind of "union" and I do not believe that faithful members of the Christian churches agree with their now seemingly powerful STRUCTURE seeking to deliberately sow discord among peaceable churches of Christ (non instrumental by definition of "church.").

David Faust says Psalm 87 prophesied instrumental music in the church. Did Jesus miss something? Do we sin if we do NOT play instruments?

David Faust said that Jesus did not address the instrumental music issue. Did David and all of the pro instrumentalists miss something.

UNITY for the instrumental sect means CONFORM or CONFIRM: no disciple of the Bible can miss the fact that MUSIC is the MARK of all falls from Grace and was brought into the garden of Eden as Lucifer "the singing and harp playing prostitute." She is the Mother of Harlots in Revelation 17 and in Revelation 18 John calls all of the singers, musicans and craftsmen SORCERERS who HAD deceived the whole world. That means that the CANDLES will never shine again. This, too, agrees with The Book of Enoch as defined by Jude: the musical seducer and all she / he / it can seduce are those FOR WHOM God comes in judgment even as He came to Sinai with a FIREY LAW because of Musical Idolatry which repudiated His Word and Grace.

In the year 1878, for the first time in recorded history, the Disciples used the Greek word Psallo to defend the use of instruments after they had become a sectarian offshoot of the American Restoration Movement--those who ADD something not necessary and which sows discord ARE by definition the sectarians.

While some Christian churches and churches of Christ met on the sole basis of Stoneite 'union,' even these near misses never made the churches of Christ part of what would later become the Disciples.   See the recorded history where "union" was agreeing to assemble together WITHOUT discussing doctrinal issues. The Christian churches accepted none of the important views of the Reformers. Stone speaking of his slow "conversion":

But this charge against me is not [19] novel. We were all pedo-baptists when we determined to take the name and word of Jesus alone as our name and our rule. Not long after I, with many others, from reading the scriptures, became came convinced that baptism signified immersion; we submitted to be immersed.

Many among us cried out, they have forsaken the Christian Church. Did we forsake it, or one principle on which the church had been constituted? You shall be judge. When Marshall, Thompson, and others endeavored to introduce another creed besides the Scriptures, and had persuaded many of the propriety, I, with R. Dooley, Kincade, and many others, stood up and boldly protested against it. Was it not then said, they have forsaken the Christian Church? And do you not remember that some of our once devoted friends could not receive us into their houses? You shall judge whether I, or they, forsook the Christian Church.

But you now preach, and boldly advocate, baptism for the remission of sins? Yes; and so I preached and acted near twenty years ago [1812]--so did our worthy brother James Hughs, whose faith is yet unwavering on this point; and so did others among us. Was it then objected against us that we had forsaken the Christian Church?

We had previously received the common exposition of Acts 2:38, "Be baptized for the remission of sins," which was,

"Be baptized on account of the remission of sins," believing that sins must be remitted before baptism.

But we saw that the text could not mean this, because it is said, [20] "Repent and be baptized for the remission of sins;"

if we read for to mean on account of then it would follow that we must repent also on account of the remission of our sins. Can this be correct? Does not repentance always precede forgiveness? Is it not unnatural that we must be sorry and repent because our sins are forgiven?

We therefore understand it to mean, Repent, and be baptized unto, or in order to the remission of sins. In doing this, have we forsaken the Christian Church, or one principle upon which it was constituted? Or did the constitution of that Church forbid us to correct any error we might have entertained when we first constituted it? If so, did you not forsake that church when you were immersed?

But you insist so much upon this topic when many in the Christian Church are dissatisfied with the doctrine. Is this a good reason why I have forsaken the church?

You know the violent flood of opposition against us on this ground,
ever since Bro. Campbell came out so ably and fully on the doctrine.

Any similarity with the churches of Christ were accrued while they were still called Disciples. Therefore, as Stone held none of the principles brought with Thomas Campbell from a long history if faith, the Christian churches held nothing in common with the "Reformers" even when meeting in the same buildings UNTIL instruments were added.

In 1906 the only thing that happened was that churches of Christ informed the "bean counter" of churches that they could NOT be counted as Disciples. At this time the Disciples was a full blown denomination declaring itself the organ of "all Christendom." We have posted the Centenial Edition of the Declaration and Address which defines a denomination. You may see the "program" of which the Christian Church was a part.

ALMOST a century later the Stone Campbell Movement was formed and the NACC began to lay claim to "wayward" churches of Christ to be brought back into the fold. It is a fact that no one has set out flying the 'unity' flag on either side which did not intend to subvert churches of Christs into the use of instrumental music or affirm that others were justified in establishing a sectarian party

Now, a century later (from 1906) the NACC denomination pretends that it was churches of Christ which formed an ANTI-instrumental church based purely on sectarian legalism.

That is about as logical as for churches of Christ to try to RECAPTURE the Baptist churches because some came out of that denomination.

Because the Disciples needed no Biblical authority as a "high church" the NACC is stuck with having to rest its eternal soul on lying about all of the Biblical's rich emphasis of music as the MARK or CAUSE of all of the FALLS beginning in heaven and ending with the Mother of Harlots (now) whose singers, musicians and teknokrats are called SORCERERS by John. If that wasn't enough one finds that all arousal singing and instrument words point to enchantmen or sorcery. A musical instrument is defined as an organon or machine for doing hard work mostly in a WARFAR sense.

Bending over backward to be "nice" and "loving" I declare that all of the PROOFS used by those who planned to INFILTRATE and DIVERT as slowly as you boil a frog deliberately lie to God and about God. I expect to receive a rebuttal on at least ONE passage which proves--in the words of Faust that God COMMANDS INSTRUMENTS and of Rick Atchley that WE MUST NOT DISOBEY.

We have collect raw data on David Faust's view that Psalm 87 prophesied instrumental music in the church and Hebrews 12 fulfills it. All of the Christian Church discorders cannot find ANY reason why anyone on a desert island wouldn't read the bible (unbiased by traditionalists!) and NOT want to use instrumental music. We have noted most of church history of people who read the Bible before the churches of Christ simply REFUSED to begin doing something they had NEVER done: no one in recorded history missed the point until now.

Reminding us of the fall from grace caused by music in The Book of Enoch, the Christian church seems to protest too much in the aggressive "unity" movement to force others to fall with them to conform or confirm.

Book writers in the Disciples heritage have always treated the ANTI-instrumental position as a late invention and so vile that they must TAKE AN AXE to it and cut it off at the evil roots. The fact is that before the Disciples invented the Greek word PSALLO to demand instruments in 1878, no one had ever misunderstood and all of the church fathers and founders of denominations repudiated instruments based on their understanding of the Biblical pattern (Yea CENI) and common sense for those who understand ekklesia to be a school of the Bible as did the campbells.

Stephen recited the idolatry at Mount Sinai which we know to be musical idolatry.
Stephen said that God promised David a Tabernacle
But, Solomon built Him a house
But God does not live in houses built by human hands.

The only "musical" performance was in Jerusalem and AT but never IN the Temple.

The Temple was a National Temple devoted to animal sacrifices primarily to feed themsleves. [Hos 8:13]

This was part of the curse imposed when they fired God: it was not a new system of "worship."

This lasted only a short time to prove that it was not God's Wish.

When the nation went into captivity they understood that the sacrifices had been for their joy and the music could not be performed any place else on earth and only by Levites.

The synagogue beginning in the wilderness continued side-by-side with this Astrial worship.

It was the fallen Tabernacle of David which God promised, says Stephen, BUT, Solomon built Him a house.

During the fairly ineffective contemporary assault against peaceable churches to deliberately sow discord some have changed their tactics to insist that God COMMANDED Instrument and we would be DISOBEDIENT if we did not obey the command.

We have reviewed the standard mantra of Christian church writers such as Burgess, Knowles, Johnson, Charles Dailey R, Dunning, Downen and more. They tend to feed off Tom Burgess who has collected the Psallo passages but ignores that psallo never means more than PLUCK. All of Burgess' references point to older males plucking a harp in order to seduce young boys who had been "plucked" as "ministers of the gods" or Catamites. As Jesus pointed to the closet for worship and Paul declared that they worshiped IN the spirit, the warning was that outside there were dogs and consision. This points to the Cynics who used a special style of singing and instruments to attract mates which was a part of many pagan "worship centers."

We will look at the Temple Dedication animal sacrifice used as David Faust's DIRECT COMMAND for instruments. Reading context and story line beginning with musical idolatry at Mount Sinai, proves that when the temple was "filled" God effecively set flaming cherubim between the Ark and the people. Never again could any but the high priest enter into the Most Holy place and then just once a year.

The temple dedication really proves that the instrumental noise MARKED God's removing both of the original place of the Word and the Mercy Seat from their access. In Second Corinthians three Paul shows that even from Mount Sinai God had removed their ability to read black text on white paper. This supports the view that the Monarchy was permitted as a curse about which God warned the elders. God never got hungry or needed to be entertained with music. In fact within five years of Solomon's death the Temple brought on a "sectarian" split in the nation and the Egyptians came for their gold. It was the Levitical musicians who set forth the building of the temple as a way to increase the work product of the slaves.

Many of the prophets make a pointed attack on instrumental noise as a mark of those who had rejected the Word of God and in turn been rejected. They deny the priestly claim of the Goyim or national religion that God ever commanded animal sacrifices when He brought them out of Egypt.

We wil look at just one passage adduced at Freed Hardeman University. We will discuss it later in another paper:

David Faust: I . In the Old Testament the Lord didn't merely "permit" the use of musical instruments as aids to worship. He commanded their use.

2. In the old Testament the Lord didn't merely "permit' the use of musical instruments as aids to worship. He blessed their use.

Second Chronicles 5:14 adds an important point about the dedication of the temple. After the instrumentalists and the singers joined together in united praise to the Lord, the next verse says, "Then the temple of the Lord was filled with a cloud, and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of God" God's "glory" in the form of a cloud was an expression of God's joy, pleasure, approval, and delight.

God was making known His presence in a very intense and powerfful way. The people not only honored the Lord as they played instruments and sang together, but they did so withh God's full and hearty approval. The Lord didn't just put up with the use of musical instruments; He smiled upon it, and expressed great delight and pleasure in the way His people praised Him through a combination of singing an instrumental accompaniment

The fact is, God SHUT DOWN the Temple and easy access to the Ark of The Covenant. This meant that they lost the Word once under the Mercy Seat AND grace of the Mercy Seat.

As God promised, the kings would enslave them. The fact is that five years after Solomon's death his slave labor using the "musicians" to set forth the work invited the Egyptians to come and recover all of their Gold from a now DIVIDED KINGDOM (fellowship). Not even Enoch could do what the instrumentalists CLAIM for their "worship team":

Isn't it interesting that the 'union' achieved by David led him in pride to "take a census" and quarantine FROM the Tabernacle. He took authority from the "congregational" elders and collected it at Jerusalem and took their money to support what God granted as a CURSE.

This UNION was broken and MARKED by building a "mega church" to give glory to the king and MARKED by loud noise not called music except by the tone deaf.

Those who built the temple as shrine of the Monarchy and added loud music SHUT OFF access to God and were therefore accused of being the SECTARIAN party.

Isa 6:4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
Isa 6:5 Then said I, Woe is me for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts

And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Isa 6:9

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes;
        lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart,
        and convert, and be healed. Isa 6:10

Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, Isa 6:11

And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. Isa 6:12

Isa 6:13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.

Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth. 2 Sam 22:8
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. 2 Sam 22:9
He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet. 2 Sam 22:10

And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power;
        and no man was able to enter into the temple,
        till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled. Re.15:8

Kapnos (h2586) kap-nos'; of uncert. affin.; smoke: - smoke.

Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin. Hosea 8:11

I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. Hosea 8:12
They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the Lord accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. Hosea 8:13
For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples;
and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities,
and it shall devour the palaces thereof. Hosea 8:14

Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me? Zech 7:5

And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? Zech 7:6

Should ye not hear the words which the Lord hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain? Zech 7:

"And I looked and saw therein a lofty throne: its appearance was as crystal, and the wheels thereof as the shining sun, and there was the vision of cherubim. And from underneath the throne came streams of flaming fire so that I could not look thereon. And the Great Glory sat thereon, and His raiment shone more brightly than the sun and was whiter than any snow. None of the angels could enter and could behold His face by reason of the magnificence and glory and no flesh could behold Him. The flaming fire was round about Him, and a great fire stood before Him, and none around could draw nigh Him: ten thousand times ten thousand (stood) before Him, yet He needed no counselor."      - 1 Enoch 18b-23a

Only believers who have been baptized can come boldly into the Holy and Most Holy place to worship God in the PLACE of the human spirit where not musician can LEAD US:

Heb 9:6 Now when these things were thus ordained,
............ the priests went alway into the first tabernacle,
............ accomplishing the service of God.

Any singer or instrumentalists who "stumbled" into the Holy Place would be executed by the "brethren."

Heb 9:7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood,
............ which he offered for himself,
............ and for the errors of the people:

Heb 9:8 The Holy Ghost this signifying,
............ that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest,
............ while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
Heb 9:9 Which was a figure for the time then present,
............ in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices,
............ that could not make him that did the service perfect,
............ as pertaining to the conscience;

Heb 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings,
............ and carnal ordinances,
............ imposed on them until the time of reformation.

Imposed: laid on, press on.
Carnal: flesh without skin, body as opposed to spirit: human nature with its frailties.

Heb 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come,
............ by a greater and more perfect tabernacle,
............ not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

Heb 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves,
............ but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place,
............ having obtained eternal redemption for us.

Heb 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats,
............ and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean,
............ sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ,
............who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God,
............purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

The only HINT of how God purese our conscience or spirits are:

1 Peter 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us
(not the putting away of the filth of the flesh,
but the [REQUEST FOR] a good conscience
toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

The same writer of Hebrews will say in the very next chapter that we must
come to Christ and have our body washed as a CONDITION of the COVENANT.
Heb.10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,
............ having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience,
.............and our bodies washed with pure water.

Adding music, including singing non Scripture as an ACT in about 373, has always deliberately divided "kingdoms" when people need to establish their own kingdom. There are numerous "patterns" to prove that this was not a legalistic patternism for the "school of the Bible" but of separating the symbolic presence of the deity FROM the common people. Doesn't group singers and instrumentalists who claim to bring you into the presence of the gods INTEND to shut you--as the laity--off from the "holy place" of church architecture which is the podieum Isaiah said would NOT be in the church.

Let's Flash Back to The Desert Island Patternism

On a desert island, David Faust assumes that everyone would agree with what history universally repudiates. Maybe not at a theological school with a "dogma" to spread, but on such an isolated place they would probably NOT toss a dart at the open Bible and pick a legalistic command to obey. Unless they had decided to BURN ANIMALS to appease an assumed HUNGRY God lusting for entertainment, they would know NOT to make loud tribalistic noises. If they began in Genesis and had resources they would know that a speaking snake is a parable as the Bible often uses names of animals to speak to those of faith: they would grasp that it was a musical enchanter and decide NOT to engage in witchcraft or sorcery (Rev 18) in violation of later direct commands.

If they honored God they would probably just read from beginning to end and they would discover that the FALLS FROM GRACE were all caused or marked by a MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. So, maybe the bewitching instrumental sounds were intended to WARN people of the serpent who makes the same HISSING sounds as a fllute.

HERE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE THINGS WHICH WOULD STRIKE THEM IN AN UNBIASED FACE:

Look briefly at a few of the major falls from grace all caused or marked by music which the musical discorders must not be able to see:

When Lucifer rose up in heaven seeking to take worship from God we know that he had some mystical power to seduce angels away from God. In The Book of Jubilees and other commentaries on the Bible this included how to enchant with musical instruments. Enoch has them in deep remorse and bound but unable to repent.

When God cast as profane Lucifer out of heaven the whord Chalal [h2490] defines playing the flute, stealing an inheritance, polluting and prostituting. The word halal [h1986] translated as praise often means to "make yourself vile." The instrumental Psalms were warrior's boast songs and used as a threat to make the enemy turn coward: remember Gideon? The word heylel [h1966] or Lucifer is derived from the PRAISE word halal. The flute or pipe is chaliyl [h2485] from Chalal. In fact, all "arousal" singing and instruments derive from roots meaning to make self vile or to enchant which John called sorcery or witchcraft. Using a similar term, Jesus cast as profane the musical minstrels trying to communicate or appease the dead girl. The word means cast our LIKE DUNG and this has the same message as the abominations brought by Israel out of Egypte devoted to sun worship or the DUNG god who "rolled" the sun like a gilgal.

When Lucifer came into the garden of Eden, personified as the king of Tyre, he / she / it is called the "singing and harp playing prostitute." Because the serpent is defined as a Musical Enchanter, Adam and Eve being cast out of the garden and losing contact with God's presence and grace is a MARK which cannot be ignored. The "flaming cherubim" we will see GUARDING God's symbolic presence in the temple kept humanity OUT of the garden.

The Lamech family of Jubal, Jabal, Tubal-Cain and Naamah identify all of the arts used to seduce people in order to "steal" their inheritance. Jubal "handled" the harp and organ meaning without authority. The organon or musical instrument in Greek is a machine for doing hard work or producing shock and awe which is the purpose of all performance rituals.

The word "Cain" is derived from a musical note or mark. He gave rise to the Cainites or Kenites who were the pervasive influence in the Jerusalem temple especially when Jesus came. John calls them a generation of Vipers and Peter said to save YOURSELVES from that "crooked generation." History well documents the skolion singing of the crooked male assemblies where perversion was usuallly the mark. Didn't Paul warn in the words of several texts: "don't get fluted down with wine." As the Abomination of Desolation, Zeus and Dionysus was worshipped with wine, women and song quite identical to the Amos warning. The Jewish clergy were still afflicted with music which induced both wine and homosexuality.

This was recorded on clay tablets where Inanna [Eve, Zoe] stole the powers from the father god by getting him drunk. The MEs included the power of the elder, the power of organizing musical performers, the ability to control the gates of hell and the power of 'kissing the phallus' among all powers over man. She delighted in getting people to build temples and then in a fit of rage tore them down by sowing discord among brothers. The music--sexuality persona marked all pagan goddess worship of which musical "rituals" are proof.

These commentaries prove that when people left the Living Word and fell into this musical idolatry they became vile and could never return to the Word. Romans 1 defines this perfectly. 1 Corinthians 1 defines the prophecy that ALL of these operatives will have no place in the church. As consolation, they tried to seduce as many people as they could into music idolatry awaiting their firey punishment. This was recorded in The Book of Enoch, Book of Jubilees, Adam and Eve and dozens of contemporaneous commentaries on the fall from grace.    I find it more than strange that people who say that "music doesn't matter" would deliberately distort the Word of God trying to sow massive discord.

Satan (Azazel the "scape goat") and other fallen angels taught mankind all of the seductive arts including musical enchantment. Jude explains how God will come with ten thousand angels to judge the world. After Nadab and Abihu the Israelites were forced to appease Azazel. In other societies this was human sacrifice after the victim had all of the food, sex and playing music they could tolerate for a year. This was also the mark of the Aztez Jubilee every 52 years and 52 weeks.   That is an evidence of being TURNED OVER to worship the starry host and NOT a legalistic patternism for us.

The evil Lamech family caused the fall from grace and God destroyed the earth but saved a tiny remnant of the faithful Lamech family through Noah.

After centuries of slavery, by grace God rescued the Israelites from Egypt and gave them The Book of The Covenant at Mount Sinai. They refused to hear the voice of God and "rose up to play" in musical idolatry. God came with this ten thousands of judges and gave them a firey law and sentenced them back to Babylon and the loss of grace. This is the same perverted play the "pipers" hoped to induce in Jessus and others to sing and dance the "bowing to Dionysus shuffle." Jesus consigned them to the marketplace where even decent Greek society QUARANTINED the singing, music, dancing, rhetoric and selling of bodies and sick speeches.

"In Greek ritual the SACRIFICE was accompanied by the invocatory cries of WOMEN.
Their purpose was to call the good gods so that they cound ENJOY the SACRIFICE.
Music had the same character of epiclesis. It was understood to "call down" the good gods.

Menander attests to the attribution of this significance to music. According to Plutarch,
the inhabiants of Argos blew trumpets (yobel=jubilee) on the FEAST of Dionysos
so as to call the god up from the depths of the river Lerne for the sacrifice.

Because song and music increased the efficacy of the epiclesis
the words of epiclesis were nearly always sung to instrumental accompaniment.

Thus the Dionysian fellowship used the ritual of women in order to obtain the appearance of their god.
Arnobius alludes to such songs of the pagans performed to flute accompaniment,
and he mockingly asks whether the sleeping deities will be awakened by them."
(Quasten, Johannes, Music and Worship in Pagan and Christian Antiquity, p. 17)

As a result, the role of the Tabernacle (patterned in heaven) was changed and the Levites stood like cherubim to keep the people out of God's presence.   The nation was now estranged from God and enslaved. There was no singing or instruments.

"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

Abodah (h5656) ab-o-daw'; or abowdah ab-o-daw'; from 5647; work of any kind: - act, bondage, / bondservant, effect, labour, ministering (-try), office, service (-ile, -itude), tillage, use, work, * wrought

Abad (h5647) aw-bad'; a prim. root; to work (in any sense); by impl. to serve, till, (caus.) enslave, etc.: - * be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute, / husbandman, keep, labour (-ing man), bring to pass, (cause to, make to) serve (-ing, self), (be, become) servant (-s), do (use) service, till (-er), transgress [from margin], (set a) work, be wrought, worshipper.

"Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die. Numbers 18:22

For those "of truth" God commanded the Qahal, synagogue or "church in the wilderness" to REST, read and rehearse the Word. He outlawed the alarm which was making instrumental noise and "making a joyful noise before the Lord." This is the same alarm Judas was prophesied to attempt on Jesus: the Judas Bag contained "the mouthpieces of his wind instruments." The Dead Sea Scrolls define all of the playing and rejoicing to attack, retreat or sound the holocaust. In the DSS Psalms 41 this is defined against Messiah.

In the Samuel literature Israel's elders fired God and demanded a king [charismatic pastor] like the nations so they could worship like the nations. God warned them about the King and Monarchy and sent the signs of the musical prophets from the Philistine high place. The king removed the people out of God's grace and made them virtual slaves--this warning was that the kings would confiscate the young men to make "instruments of chariots" (musical) and run before the chariots. God gave them kings in His anger and took them away in His anger says Hosea. All "'oriental potentates" had musicians to give GLORY to the senior pastor.

"The absence of instrumental music from the services of the tabernacle continued not only during the wandering of the Israelites in the desert, but after their entrance into the promised land, throughout the protracted period of the Judges, the reign of Saul, and a part of David's. This is a noteworthy fact. Although David was a lover of instrumental music, and himself a performer upon the harp, it was not until some time after his reign had begun that this order of things was changed." (Girardeau, George, Instrumental Music, p. 29).

When King David numbered the warriors, God sent a plague and this so frightened David that he could not go to the Tabernacle at Gibeon. By a "concession" of Grace God promised david a TABERNACLE. David brought the Ark to Zion and put it under a tent a simple tent while he lived in a house of cedar. The Levites sang outside this tent but the singing would have been cantillation and not "tuneful" because the songs were not metrical. There were no instruments and they "made sweet melody with their voices."

For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon. 1 Chron 21:29

But David could not go before it to enquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the Lord. 1 Chron 21:30

"The original altar of Burnt-offering continued at Gibeon with the Tabernacle (2 Chr. 1:3, 5). David must have erected a new altar for sacrifice at Jerusalem.

> The sacrifices commanded by the Law were, it appears, offered at the former place (Gibeon);
> at the latter were offered voluntary additional sacrifices." (Albert Barnes, 1 Chron, p. 347).

"The book of Psalms contain new doctrine after the Law of Moses. And after the writing of Moses, it is the second book of doctrine... (David) first gave to the Hebrews a new style of psalmody, by which he abrogates the ordinances established by Moses with respect to sacrifices, and introduces the new hymn and a new style of jubilant praise in the worship of God; and throughout his whole ministry he teaches very many other things that went beyond the law of Moses." (Fragment of Commentary by Hippolytus, bishop of Rome, Ante-Nicene, V, p. 170)

A great heaviness or Kabod filled the temple so that the priests could never enter again. The flaming cherubim as idols guarded both the original place of the WORD and the MERCY SEAT. Again, the people were excluded from God's presence until Messiah came and tore down the curtains. God was not being sexually aroused as all pagans believed. Paul even told the Corinthian Jews that they lost the ability to read BLACK text on WHITE paper at Mount Sinai and would not be able to read until they converted or were baptized.   I believe that those who have conspired to sow massive discord have LOST the ability to read and God has sent them a strong delusion which was induced in paganism most powerfully with music.

David's Tabernacle seems to have been without a veil. However, Not even the Levitical Warrior Musicians could ever get close to the Ark of the Covenant after God SHUT OFF access.

Isaiah 30 shows how God beats His enemies into a type of hell to the sound of the same wind, string and percussion instruments lucifer brought into the Garden of Eden. The king of Babylon rests in this place of punishment on a bed of maggots along with his harps and still breathing harpists. We have pictures.

Amos and Isaiah show that musical worship starved people for lack of the Word of God and drove them into captivity and death. Amos and Isaiah show that they were still under the curse imposed by musical idolatry at Mount Sinai: Stephen agrees.

On a desert island they would find out the meaning of ekklesia or synagogue and read Romans 15 to determine that SELF-pleasure (including music and theatrics) was excluded and speaking "that which was written" or "Scripture" is the commanded and logical thing you do in the synagogue where singing and music was outlawed. The Campbell clan saw church as "a school of the Bible." Worship was reading and musing the Bible. That is what Paul commanded Timothy.

They would read Jude and urgently seek out for whom God will come with ten thousands angels to execute Judgement. They would seek out The Book of Enoch which is commentary on the Jubal musical fall from grace. They would read Isaiah and wonder whether the sound of wind, string and percussion instruments is REALLY the sound of God repaying His enemies and driving them into hell. Satan has only a SHORT time and maybe that is why the panic.

There are many other FALLS FROM GRACE caused or marked by loud music or noise in God's face. John defines our end-times as the Mother of Harlots [Rev 17] makes her last stand. Her singers, instrument players and craftsmen (theater builders and stage managers) are called SORCERERS [Rev 18] who HAD deceived the whole world. The candles were removed signifying that the seven Spirits OF Divine Knowledge [Isa 11:1-4] had been removed along with grace.

I can go on and on and on and THEY cannot find anything negative about music. Why is it that THEY can trump all of the Bible and all of church history?

It is deception to agressively SELL the temple dedication sacrifice and a fall from Grace and removal from God's Word and Mercy as God jumping and jiving in the Most Holy Place because He is so aroused by all of the 120 shofars making a harsh, spine-chilling sound.

The saving Grace was that not is the VILEST pagan temples were singers and musicians (lumped with prostitutes, acrobats and actors) ever permitted into the Holy Places.

When God defined the songs in the temple becoming howlings and sentenced them to captivity and said I will not pass by again, He promised to restore the fallen Tabernacle of David. This defines the church without the burden laders of spiritual anxiety and our personal access to the Tabernacle and the Throne of Grace.

LOOKING BACK AGAIN: ISRAEL WAS ALREADY QUARANTINED FROM GOD'S PRESENCE BECAUSE OF MUSICAL IDOLATRY.

Robert Jamieson notes that the "people" were excluded from the Tabernacle as they were later from the temple:

Numbers 2:47-54. But the Levites . . .were not numbered among them--They were obliged to keep a register of their own. They were consecrated to the priestly office,
..........which in all countries has been exempted customarily,
..........and in Israel by the express authority of God, from military service.
The custody of the things devoted to the divine service was assigned to them so exclusively,
..........that "no stranger"--that is, no person, not even an Israelite of any other tribe, was allowed,
..........under penalty of death, to approach these [Nu 16:40].

Hence they encamped round the tabernacle in order that there should be no manifestation of the divine displeasure among the people.

Thus the numbering of the people was subservient to the separation of the Levites from those Israelites who were fit for military service,

> and to the practical introduction of the law respecting the first-born,
> for whom the tribe of Levi became a substitute [Ex 13:2 Nu 3:12].

Numbers 3:5-10. Bring the tribe of Levi near--The Hebrew word "bring near" is a sacrificial term, denoting the presentation of an offering to God; and the use of the word, therefore,

in connection with the Levites, signifies that they were devoted as an offering to the sanctuary, no longer to be employed in any common offices.

They were subordinate to the priests, who alone enjoyed the privilege of entering the holy place;
but they were employed in discharging many of the humbler duties which belonged to the sanctuary, as well as in various offices of great utility and importance to the religion and morals of the people.

Everyone not of the tribe of Levi (priests or Levites and others) was a stranger and no longer members of God's Covenant family:

To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the Lord; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the Lord said to him by the hand of Moses. Numbers 16:40.....

David Faust at FHU