Farmer's Branch Church of Christ

Farmer's Branch Church of Christ

Chris Seidman, Farmers Branch church of Christ, Texas. Preacher's rationale for INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC to lead people to Christ. Chris Seidman's views are identical to pagan religions. However, we know of no Jewish or pagan Holy Place into which the MUSICIANS could go.

10/04/02

We have broken this into two parts: PARTB which follows this will look at other FALSE CLAIMS related to language after the time of Paul. But Lucian as the authority ridicules people because FALSE PROPHETS could play the flute and steal the money of the "fat heads and simpletons."

The claim that PSALLO means to "make music" is totally false. The word MUSIC included singing, dancing, playing instruments, drinking wine and often sexuality as one of the acts of worship.

That the first century Christians had no problem with singing and instrumet: utterly false and ALL of the Bible and history of the church proves it BEYOND DOUBT.

That NEW TESTAMENT "music" just continued the Old Testament practice. But, no one ever "worshiped" congregationally with music.

The book of Revelation has HARPS symbolic of the idleness of DEAD VIRGINS. The message of the angel to those still LIVING was to preach the gospel.

The old PSALM 150 argument: but these instruments all HAD BREATH. Several of these instruments were not allowed in the temple court and two of them speak of vileness and prostitution.

See the picture of the NAKED WORSHIP TEAM and a picture of the Judas Bag.

NOT MENTIONED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT contradicts other statements and proves that the LAW OF SILENCE is the authority for INVENTING OR EXPERIMENTING.

The false claim that the Bible and 2,000 years of scholarship even without the churches of Christ is JUST TRADITIONALISM. This can be said because postmodernism has ALL TRUTH prior to ME as now obsolete.

The church MUST MEET the SINNERS on common ground?

See the VOODOO and slavery basis for "churchy" songs which seeks (still according to Carol Wimber of Vineyard) to MAKE THE SPIRIT COME.

See the utter FALSEHOOD about becoming all things to all people.

See that the NEW STYLE WORSHIP is stolen from the beginning time Babylon Whore and is identical to the END TIME Babylon whore. The "wandering star" is Saturn whose number is 666.

Part B for these and more falsehood. This Looks at other PROOF TEXTS for instrumental music.

Rational for Introducing Musical Instruments into a Non- Instrumental Fellowship.

The Heglian Dialectic

Chris Seidman and Farmer's Branch Church of Christ: The Need For This Consideration

This presentation regarding what the leadership of the Farmers Branch Church believes concerning vocal and instrumental musical expression

has been produced as a response to sincere questions posed by genuine disciples who are a part of the heritage of the Churches of Christ.

The record of correspondents show that the first IMPULSE comes from the clergy. People are questioned and THEY NEED MUSIC to keep their kids in church.

The Anderson "Prayerful Brinkmanship"

The way you use PROFESSIONAL CHANGE SYSTEMS not unlike those used in the SECULAR world or even witchcraft begins with getting the camel's foot under the tent. If they don't fire you, go to the next step. If there are any Bible students who object, pull back into the safety zone.

"Music and gymnastic (must) be preserved in their original form, and no innovation made. They must do their utmost to maintain them intact. And when anyone says that mankind must regard...

The newest song which the singers have, (Osyssey)...

they will be afraid that he may be praising, not some new songs, but a new kind of song; and this ought not to be praised, or conceived to be the meaning of the poet;

for any musical innovation is full of danger in the whole State, and ought to be prohibited.

So Damon tells me, and I can quite believe him; he says that when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them..."

<>"Then," I said, "our guardians must lay the foundations of their fortress in music?"
"Yes," I replied, 'in the form of amusement: and at first sight it always appears harmless'." (The Great Dialogs, Plato, Classic edition, p. 312)

Even if there are sincere questions there can be no sincere answer which "steals church houses of widows" by the universal, even bragged about, Purpose Driven Cult to "infiltrate and divert." Sure, we BEGIN using the Anderson PRAYERFUL BRINKMANSHIP so SLICK that mature believers wake up to discover their old CHURCH has been carried away in a Judas Bag -- Which was for "carrying the mouthpieces of wind instruments."

Chris Seidman and Farmer's Branch Church of Christ: For some time now, FBCC has occasionally incorporated the use of instrumental music into its Sunday morning assemblies in the form of a solo with an instrumental track or a special event such as a musical.

This has proven to be a unique experience for anyone who has had their faith nurtured in the context of the Churches of Christ which (in regard to most Churches of Christ) have been exclusively a capella in their form of worship.

Well, we suspect that people are not so ignorant: they have all probably had the experience of performance music called "worship" and made a CONSCIOUS DECISION to place their membership AND THEIR MONEY "INVESTMENTS" in a faithful church WITHOUT MUSIC.

Honest evangelists would sign up with a church already dedicated to music and not even minimal honesty would let a Christian non-instrumentalist INFILTRATE, DIVERT AND STEAL the church of an instrumental group.

To suggest that members of the church need a UNIQUE EXPERIENCE is to suggest that people are not honoring Spurgeon's defininition of MINIMAL HONESTY.

The Heglian (Hitler, Machiavelli) method is to GRADUALLY introduce falsehood such as trying to worship a Spirit God by the sexual stimulation of music a little bit at a time. After the building is paid for is time enough to dispense with the old folks. Therefore, when you see the first instrument in a Bible class or youth group you KNOW that Lucifer is using you and you will not know what hit you until you are spiritually dead.

Yes, the STARRY HOST to whom God "turned Israel over" as PUNISHMENT for their MUSICAL IDOLATRY at Mount Sinai included Remphan, Chiun, Molech and others. The PRINCIPLE god was the S.U.N. god Shelly wants to baptize as the S.O.N. God. However, the KEY god was SATURN or Satan.

The wandering stars from Jude and the book of Enoch were the YOUTH seduced by Satan (Lucifer, ZOE) into "little by little" seducing the faithful people in the presence of the LIVING WORD down into the dark valley of the Cainites with mixed-sex choirs, instrumental music, wine (excitement) and sexual perversion just like the garden of Eden.

As the key god as a Wandering Star or planet who will seduce those for whom God will come with ten thousand of His saints SEDUCED the youth into mixed-sex choirs, instrumental music, sleezy dress and homosexuality believed to be the sin in the garden:

Nimrod was known as the god of the Chaldean Mysteries. That name, as we have seen, was Saturn. Saturn and Mystery are both Chaldean words, and they are correlative terms. As Mystery signifies the Hidden system, so Saturn signifies the Hidden god. *

* In the Litany of the Mass, the worshippers are taught thus to pray: "God Hidden, and my Saviour, have mercy upon us." (M'GAVIN'S Protestant) Whence can this invocation of the "God Hidden" have come, but from the ancient worship of Saturn, the "Hidden God"? As the Papacy has canonised the Babylonian god by the name of St. Dionysius, and St. Bacchus, the "martyr," so by this very name of "Satur" is he also enrolled in the calendar; for March 29th is the festival of "St. Satur," the martyr. (CHAMBER'S Book of Days)

The Jewish clergy (like all priesthoods) lusted that John (the priest) and Jesus were agents of Dionysus or Bacchus. Dionysus was the GOD OF THE NEW WINESKIN.

Adonis, Attis, Osiris and Dionysus are the same.

To those who were initiated the god was revealed; to all else he was hidden. Now, the name Saturn in Chaldee is pronounced Satur; but, as every Chaldee scholar knows, consists only of four letters, thus--Stur. This name contains exactly the Apocalyptic number 666:--

S = 060
T = 400
U = 006
R = 200
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666

Bending Wills to Peer-Selected LEADERSHIP

God sent His own RIGHT ARM because there WAS NO MAN who could judge or teach. Jesus is the ONE AND ONLY Master teacher: He is the head of the church. The ONLY persons authorized in the church as SCHOOL OF THE BIBLE are elders and deacons. Elders are not selected or elected but POINTED OUT because "they are already laboring to the point of exhaustion in preaching and teaching."

The only TEXT BOOK for songs and sermos is "that which is written." The duty of the elders as the ONLY LEADERSHIP is to "teach that which HAS BEEN taught" and rebuke those who oppose it in sermons or songs.

The belief of the LEADERSHIP has NO authority unless they can point to that which is written.

This focus on LEADERSHIP was the sin of the NICO or clergy dominating the laity.

Chris Seidman and Farmer's Branch Church of Christ: The Purpose Of This Consideration

The purpose of this presentation is to set forth what the leadership believes the Lord's will to be for the Farmers Branch Church concerning vocal and instrumental musical expression. The intent of this effort is not to test one's relationship with the Lord, or to define a belief system required for membership in this church, or to despise or judge anyone who does not agree with this position.

Acceptance is not conditioned on any particular view of music. The intent is to articulate the leadership's view so that members and especially prospective members may know the church's position on this matter.

This flexibility results from the belief that music, vocal and/or instrumental, is not a "salvation issue", and thus is not one of the core beliefs of this church.

The Lord has expressed His will and we never have to ask: WWJD? Someone is getting the LORD'S WILL by osmosis because the Lord expressed His will about musical enchanting or soothsaying beginning in Genesis and ending in Revelation 18.

There has always been a body of believers called the church of Christ and always rejected instrumental music. It is totally distorting to preach that the non-instrumental churches of Christ became a SECTARIAN GROUP about music. It is a fact that neither Baptists, Presbyterians or Methodists used instruments at the time of the Restoration. It was primarily rich post-civil war northern churches who introduced instruments and therefore became SECTARIAN. Rather than build new buildings they found it more convenient to steal the buildings of those who opposed the INNOVATION of adding mechanical devices as "the worship of men'shands."

There was no hint at trying to justify the sowing of discord from the Bible until about 1878.

The entire Bible and church history has believed that using music to silence the Words of Jesus IS A SALVATION ISSUE. Older scholars classed music "as" worship as idolatry.

The RISING UP TO PLAY at Mount Sinai caused God to give Israel the Law of Moses and sentence them to WORSHIP THE STARRY HOST. When they fired God and demanded a human king it was so that they could worship LIKE THE NATIONS.

God promised that the kings would confiscate their lands, flocks and people. The kings would make the boys blow the INSTRUMENTS OF CHARIOTS. When David was made king he did exactly what God had warned them: He as king and the COMMANDERS OF THE ARMY organized the surplus Levitical, warrior sounders of panic to prophesy at the future temple. This was not music or worship but making a great crashing sound.

Churches of Christ have the totality of the Bible and secular history which associates music with PAGANISM and perversion and NEVER with the spiritual worship of God.

All of the musical terms in the Bible are rooted in idolatry or even Satan's devices.

Farmer's Branch: Where Is The Leadership In Regard To This Subject?

The LEADERSHIP has no unique POWER or TEACHING AUTHORITY over the COMMONERS which is not based on the elders chosen to "teach that which HAS been taught and to REFUTE those who repudiate the once-delivered TRUTH."

No SENIOR PREACHER has ANY authority to even be riding the backs of the widows. The elders have no authority which is not given to them by the Word of God. All believers have the DIRECT COMMAND of Paul to TEACH ONE ANOTHER. The resources do not have to be SERMONIZED or VERSIFIED: Jesus preached the sermons and composed the "songs" and the Romans were commanded to:

Glorify God with ONE VOICE using "that which is written."

However, there is a Vineyard, Kansas City and Jubilee breed band of men who BELIEVE that they are latter day apostles or christs with MORE POWER than even Moses or Jesus. This is based on the

Historically Unique View of the Godhead as Three, Separated Beings like kith or kin or a STANDING COMMITTEE. No one in the history of the world has fallen so far from the notion of an INTERNAL TRINITARIAN nature than these people.

John Mark Hicks notes that Max Lucado and Rubel Shelly are the fathers of the god family of THREE members meaning a polytheistic god of three persons. However, God is One and the Spirit's name to Paul was Jesus of Nazareth. Since Paul demands that we SPEAK the words of Christ in place of music, the Spirit of Christ is the WORDS OF CHRIST or "that which is written." Therefore, the LEADERSHIP has no supernatural power to do more than "teach that which has been taught" and to "refute those who teach false doctrine."

By claiming to be Spirit filled, a form of psychological violence is used to convince people that they are agents of God. The fact that every proof-text is distorted and even teaches the sexual, pagan connection is proof that all leaders should stick with the Bible and perhaps send the hirelings packing since "leadership" normally means the hired staff.

We suggest that the LEADERSHIP is probably defined as the dominant pastor. We absolutely are positive that he PERVERTS every quoted passage.

Music is a TOOL to FACILITATE worship or mediating to replace Jesus.

Armageddon is not THE BATTLE OF THE WORLD; it is the battle of words. The LITTLE HILLS will attempt to LIFT THEMSELF UP above the plains to become BIG MOUNTAINS.

Chris Seidman and Farmer's Branch Church of Christ: The leadership believes that music lifted up in praise to God and His Son is an outpouring from the heart of a person filled with the Holy Spirit.

<>This offering can be vocal, instrumental or both together.
This conclusion is the result of much prayer and considerable study of the Scriptures on this matter.

Jesus said MY WORDS are Spirit and Life. In the so-called 'singing' passages being filled with the Spirit in Ephesians 5 is to be filled with the WORDS of Christ in Colossians 3. In Romans 15 this is defined as "that which is written" or "Scripture." That is the only way to be filled with SPIRIT which is "neuter" and Paul defines it in 1 Cor 2 as THE MIND OF CHRIST.

Singing AND melody are not POURED OUT of the heart: Paul said that both must be IN the heart. Jesus defined spiritual worship as in the PLACE of the human spirit.

The command is not to OFFER something to God: praise singing is the world's oldest, most superstitious paganism known to mankind. Those totally lost and without assurance try to PAY GOD SOMETHING to keep HIM from failing them--again.

The word is SPEAK in the external sense:

Psa 60:1 (To the chief Musician upon Shushaneduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand.)

WEB Psalm LX. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lily of the Covenant." A teaching poem by David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.

LX. in finem in hymnis David [2] exaudi Deus deprecationem meam intende orationi meae [3] a finibus terrae ad te clamavi dum anxiaretur cor meum in petra exaltasti me deduxisti me

Oratio I. a speaking, speech, discourse, language In gen., the connection of words to express thought: II. In particular, formal language, artificial discourse, set speech (opp. to sermo, ordinary speech, conversational language): E. A prayer, an address to the Deity

SPEAK can never meant SING.

The word is used of PRAYER and SERMO meaning normal range of speech. Paul dialoged or communed but did not PREACH in the "musical performance" style.

Eph 5: [19]WEB loquentes vobismet ipsis in psalmis et hymnis et canticis spiritalibus cantantes et psallentes in cordibus vestris Domino
<>Loquor I. inf. loquier, Naev. ap. Gell. 1, 24, 2), v. dep. n. and a. [Sanscr. lap-, to talk, whisper; to speak, talk, say (in the lang. of common life, in the tone of conversation; cf. Quint. 9, 4, 10; 11, 3, 45). <>II. Transf.
A. To speak, declare, show, indicate or express clearly:

When Farmer's Branch invaded Nashville to pray for LATTER REIGN or the Latter Rain of doing what the old "christ" could not do without the help of madern day prophets,

The theme of Jubilee 99 was: "Lord, I Lift Your Name on High."in,
However, God said that He would be exalted in righteousness and justice and not in the meet-your-eye-or-ear "Lord, Lords." Lynn Anderson who promotes methods which sound commercial or even neo-pagan and helps you Navigate the Winds of Change "the many" of clergy are themselves blowing like "hot air from an east wind" (Job) will set the keynote.

We fear that Lynn will be exalted on high solely because he can attract the masses which got lost during Jubilee 98. However,

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. Isaiah 2:11

You cannot exalt the Name of the Lord by crying, "Lord, Lord" in song and sermon. This just insults the Incarnate God Who said:

But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness. Isaiah 5:16

The way to "praise" God and "exalt" Him was clearly prescribed in the Great Commission and predicted by Christ the Spirit in the prophets (1 Peter 1:11):

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. Psalm 46:10

Only then can we clap our hands in celebration of God's victory -- not ours. The Christian demand is to preach to and convert the heathen and not try to triumph over with song and instrument.

God: Now will I rise, saith the Lord; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself. Isaiah 33:10

The Latter Rains: Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you. Isaiah 33:11

The first issue of Wineskins set the keynote for the new movement to take the name Jesus Christ (Jehovah-Saved) out and replace it with the generic name of God (which ain't a name):

"Wineskins is committed to the stimulation of bold but responsible change in the Church of God." But their commitment is

"not to the church of Christ which started on Pentecost A.D. 33. They say instead, "Our background and commitment is to the Church of Christ that was born of the American Restoration Movement."

One writer warns:

"They are "pious scavengers" who work and sleep neither day nor night as they infiltrate and take over the churches one by one. The church where you meet may already be targeted."

The concept of physical worship is to bow your head in total submission. In a spiritual sense worship means to bow to the Words of Christ which are Spirit and Life. Paul's worship word is to "give heed" to Christ through His Words. Lifting up anything is not a Christian concept. Rather,

And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. Lu.16:23

And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. Lu.18:13

Only if you HAVE holy hands can you lift them up but please not over your head.

The mountain is the sign of "lifting up" in the oppresive religion Jesus died to remove is from the Greek:

Oros (g3735) or'-os; prob. from an obsol. oro, (to rise or "rear"; perh. akin to 142; comp. 3733); a mountain (as lifting itself above the plain): - hill, mount (-ain)

Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; Mt.4:8

Glory means "honor, praise, worship."

Here is the way to recognize a LITTLE HILL trying to follow Satan's path:

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

While this may get an expert speaker a job and great glory what he is doing is POURING OUT GOD'S WRATH. Paul said that just before he INSISTED that our "singing" be PREACHING the Word of God.

Don't give way to the Devil sowing his own seed but:

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. Eph 4:28

To the Thessalonians Paul made this a LAW for the preachers!

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying (teaching), that it may minister grace unto the hearers. Eph 4:29

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Eph 4:30

Grieving the Holy Spirit is refusing to SPEAK or TEACH that which has been taught in songs and sermons:

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: Eph 4:31

Therefore, preaching what LIFTS OUT of the team's own spirit grieves the Holy Spirit and if tolerated becomes GOD POURING OUT HIS WRATH on those who have no love for the truth.

Paul condemned the SONGS and SERMONS which came out of the person's OWN SPIRIT or mind as "just speaking into the air."

Therefore, all PERFORMANCE preaching or music is a SIGN of God's wrath upon those who believe that they can do a better job than Jesus Who IS the Spirit: Father, Son and Spirit have ONE NAME: Jesus, Joshua which is Jehovah- Saved.

The SPIRIT which rested on Jesus typified as a dove or "carrier pigeon" was the SEVEN SPIRITS all related to teaching KNOWLEDGE about God. My spirit does not make me twins. Spirit is MIND and Paul said that THE HOLY SPIRIT comes in the form of "My words are Spirit and Life."

All pagans BELIEVED that one could appease, threaten and even SEDUCE the gods using PRAISE MUSIC as the oldest known superstition that a priestly class HELPS the gods keep from FAILING.

History shows what common sense demands: If you meet to recite the poems of Robert Frost and DROWN it with vocal and instrumental "wailing" as Amos callled it this would be the worst of insults.

The authority is to LET JESUS DO THE TAlKING AND TEACHING THROUGH HIS INSPIRED WORD.

If you even do that and simultaneously play instruments, in the Classics and church Fathers you would be truly LOW CLASS doing something reserved for children and male and female prositutes always USED and then ABUSED.

Paul said that one pours out the WORDS OF CHRIST as Spirit and Truth. The "lifting up in praise" is one of the most ancient pagan superstitions that one can do something for God or the "audience" by playing music. However, the Bible treats music as people treating Him as a Musical Prostitute.

Jesus said: "My WORDS are SPIRIT and LIFE" (John 6:63). In Isaiah 11 the seven "spirits" which would rest upon the BRANCH were related to the knowledge of God. Therefore, no person has a PERSON to pour on others if they ignore the Words of God.

In the falsely-labelled "singing" passages the SPIRIT to be poured out is not what Paul called "madness" or Philo called Enthus O Mania where enthusiasm is not being filled with a HOLY spirit but of the charismatic ecstasy so utterly dependant on music:

Paul's Direct Command:

Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs.

These are all TYPES of the Biblical book of Psalms. So says all of early church scholarship. Self-composed hymns were condemned and then outlawed.

Paul's Furter Explanation:

Romans 15: "That which is written" as a way to GLORIFY God WITH ONE VOICE.

Ephesians 4: The Word of God or the Spirit of Christ.

Colossians 3: The Word of Christ.

Romans 15 was to repudiate the CULTURE of music in Rome. The only solution was to define CHURCH as synagogue or school of the Bible. This outlawed instruments or even music and made the INSPIRED WORD the only way to glorify God rather than the PERFORMERS.

Plato in the Republic warns:

"Now when a man abandons himself to music to play upon him and pour into his soul as it were through the funnel of his ears those sweet, soft, and dirge-like airs of which we were just now speaking, and gives his entire time to the warblings and blandishments of song,

the first result is that the principle of high spirit (temperament), if he had it, is softened like iron and is made useful instead of useless and brittle.

But when he continues the practice without remission and is spellbound,

<>the effect begins to be that he melts and liquefies till he completely dissolves away his spirit,
cuts out as it were the very sinews of his soul and makes of himself a 'feeble warrior.' "Assuredly," he said.
<>"And if," said I, "he has to begin with a spiritless nature he reaches this result quickly,
but if high-spirited, by weakening the spirit he makes it unstable.

"According to the misogynist interpretation, the form is and was conservative and kept women in their place.

Plato, the first of the anti-theatrical critics, on the other hand, thought that all imitative poetry was threatening to his ideal state and ought to be outlawed
<>for encouraging behavior in large part belonging to women and
therefore inappropriate to a ruler or any male citizen:
imitation leads to the reality.

From Plato's perspective, theater seems to be a wild zone, a site where inappropriate actions might be represented and volatile emotions aroused. If, as Jack Winkler (1990: 50) argues,

gender was on a continuum for the Greeks, and there was a risk that the normative male could by being softened end up female, the male actor of female roles might be one site of crossover or leakage.

All of history and modern musicologists identify "praise songs" as sentimental, effeminate and erotic: trying to speak TO God rather than letting HIM do the talking.

All of musicology and medicine also knows that music produces the morphine-within called endorphins. These produce the effects of FIGHT, FLIGHT OR SEXUALITY. That is why MUSIC is an addictive DRUG HIGH and has no more spirituality than the POT some preachers brag about.

Heredotus explains how Cyrus was told how to neuter MALE captives:

Grant, then, forgiveness to the Lydians, and to make sure of their never rebelling against thee, or alarming thee more,

send and forbid them to keep any weapons of war, command them to wear tunics under their cloaks, and to put buskins upon their legs,

and make them bring up their sons to cithern-playing (Kitharizein), singing (psallein), and shop-keeping (Hucksterism). (Or translated lyre playing and harping which is redundant)

So wilt thou soon see them become women instead of men,
and there will be no more fear of their revolting from thee."

This quotation disproves the MUSICAL SECTARIAN'S claim that "psallein" demanded the use of a musical instrument. In fact, in ALL cases there is NEVER an instrument indicated by the word sing or psalm unless it is specificially named:

I wonder if there was a vote taken and the present elders and those whose "terms had expired" agreed. Increasingly elders are the board of directors of the pastors who claim superior knowledge and leadership power.

This attempt at justifying instrumental music will prove that leadership is hired as theatrical performers and multiple degrees do no make one a Bible student.

There is no hint in the Bible that God wants the ancient superstition of LIFTING UP PRAISE to Him in a ritualistic way. Rather, real praise means to tell the world abut Jesus rather than diverting the praise to the musicians.

God didn't hear the prayer or He would surely have pointed out one HONEST passage which would define the LEADERSHIP'S conclusion from God knows where.

Psalm 41 prophesied that Judas was attack Jesus with music. The word "triumph over" means to play instruments and "make a joyful noise before the Lord." This WAS NOT WORSHIP but it was the universal WAR CHANT to melt the heart of the enemy as done by Gideon and his select TEAM.

Music in this prophecy was that of David the king and the COMMANDERS OF THE ARMY using music which was ALWAYS an attack upon the enemy even in the courts of animal sacrifice.

After the MUSICAL ATTACK prophesied in Psalm 41, the Dead Sea Scroll translation has Messiah saying:

I will groan with the zither of lamentation

in all grief-stricken mourning and bitter complaint

until iniquity and wickedness are consumed

and the disease-bringing scourge is no more.

An evil (Beliyyal) disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more. Ps.41:8

Shakab (h7901) shaw-kab'; a prim. root; to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose): - * at all, cast down, ([over- ]) lay (self) (down), (make to) lie (down, down to sleep, still, with), lodge, ravish, take rest, sleep, stay.

But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: Ge.19:4

If you are playing on CARNAL WEAPONS or LIFELESS INSTRUMENT you ARE NOT in step with the Spirit of Christ who would, after the resurrection,

Then will I play on the zither of deliverance

and harp of joy,

on the tabors of prayer and the pipe of praise

without end.

AFTER THE FINAL SACRIFICE we do not OFFER animal sacrifices and therefore do not offer INSTRUMENTAL NOISE. The "harp of God" is the human lips and the SACRIFICE we offer is that which God created for our use:

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

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

No person who SELLS himself as THE Biblical authority can with honesty say that the Bible doesn't condemn MUSIC from beginning to end because you CANNOT give heed to the WORDS of Lord Jesus Christ and LITTLE BROTHER AND SISTER musicians at the same time. In fact, you cannot give HEED to the Words of Jesus and the same form of PULPIT PERFORMER at the same time.

INSTRUMENTAL NOISE IS STILL OFFERING ANIMAL SACRIFICES AND REPUDIATING LORD JESUS CHRIST. It even becomes beyond the worst of sexual PAGANISM because it dares allow the MUSICIANS and SINGERS into the Holy Place as a type of the Church of Christ. No Levite and no pagan priest would have done that without being PSALLOED to death with a sword. And, if the OLD BIBLE has any meaning, music is the MARK of spiritual death and being defeated by SATURN whose number is 666 and who is SATAN or ZOE--known as Lucifer the Beast and the "female instructing principle." FEMALE leadership makes the identification of an end-time Babylonian religious and hostile takeover POSITIVE.

Satan as Lucifer the MUSICAL ENCHANTER in the Garden: "Hath God really said." Satan quoted the Bible but FALSELY to try to SEDUCE Jesus exactly the way he WHOLLY SEDUCED Eve in the garden.

Chris Seidman and Farmer's Branch Church of Christ: The Leadership's Position In Light Of The Scriptures

There are numerous references in the Bible to singing with and the playing of musical instruments in worship to God.

No, that is not a fact. This paper will quote not a single passage relating to congregational singing with instruments. Children, shepherds, camp followers, magicians and prostitutes played music for fun and pleasure. The warrior Levites "under the KING and COMMANDERS OF THE ARMY served the PRIESTS as they slaughtered and burned animals IN THE COURT. The sacrificed animals were a carnal type of LORD JESUS CHRIST.

The noise makers (not musicians) were in the court and not in the Holy Place. The Holy Place even as a carnal type of the church of Christ was off limits to any singer or musician.

As prophesied in Psalm 41, the warrior musicians tipped off by Judas would MOCK Jesus as He was being prepared for the crucifixion.

Here is the almost- universal meaning of what is PERVERTED to be spiritual worship:

And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper. 2 Chron 20:20

And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the Lord, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the Lord; for his mercy endureth for ever. 2 Chron 20: 21

Then and now music was used to panic the enemy. By the playing of instruments and singing a boast song you tried to convince the enemy to turn coward and surrender or run for their lives.

Halal (h1984) haw-lal'; a prim. root; to be clear (orig. of sound, but usually of color); to shine; hence to make a show, to boast; boast self

Heylel (h1966) hay-lale'; from 1984 (in the sense of brightness); the morning-star: - lucifer.

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! Is.14:12

Imagine a troop led by bagpipers approaching your lines and you can get the "high" feeling which is not spiritual:

And when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten. 2 Chron 20: 22

Rinnah (h7440) rin-naw'; from 7442; prop. a creaking (or shrill sound), i. e. shout (of joy or grief): - cry, gladness, joy, proclamation, rejoicing, shouting, sing (-ing), triumph.

Ranah (h7439) raw-naw'; a prim. root; to whiz: - rattle.

He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword. Job 39:22

The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. Job 39:23

Here is how the DSS defines the ambushment

[The Rule of the Trumpets: the trumpets] of alarm for all their service for the [ . . . ] for their commissioned men, 17[by tens of thousands and thousands and hundreds and fifties] and tens. Upon the t[rumpets . . . ]

[ . . . ] )8[ . . . ] 19[ . . . which ] 20 [,, . they shall write . . . the trumpets of Col. 3 the battle formations, and the trumpets for assembling them when the gates of the war are opened so that the infantry might advance, the trumpets for the signal of the slain, the trumpets of 2 the ambush, the trumpets of pursuit when the enemy is defeated, and the trumpets of reassembly when the battle returns.

On the trumpets for their campaigns they shall write,

"The mighty deeds of God to scatter the enemy and to put all those who hate justice to flight and a withdrawal of mercy from all who hate God."

But if they establish an ambush for a battle formation, the three ambushing formations shall [stay at a dist]ance and not ris[e up . . . ] '3 [ . . . ] the battle.

When they [h]ear the trumpets of alarm, the [infantry]men [shall begin to bring do]wn the guilty casualties. Then the ambush shall rise up from its place and also order its [battle form]ations [ . . . 3

14 The reassembly: from the right and left, from be[hind and before, the f]our direction[s . . . ] in the battles of annihilation

Then the priests shall blow on the six trumpets of the slain a sharp staccato note to direct the battle,

and the Levites and all the people with rams' horns shall blow a great battle alarm together in order to melt the heart of the enemy.

This is the original meaning of Melody in Greek. It is derived from "grinding into a fine powder" or the "twanging of a bow string" or the whizzing "musical" cound of an arrow just sticking into your heart. The "rattling" of the arrows in the quiver sent a "drum-like" message that you were prepared to kill the enemy.

Rinnah is similar to a word translated alarm or "triumph over"-

Ruwa (h7321) roo-ah'; a prim. root; to mar (espec. 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.

They would try this against Jesus:

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. Psa 41:9

But thou, O Lord, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them. Psa 41:10

By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. Psa 41:11

Therefore, God QUARANTINED the later temple rituals for the Civil-State from the people's congregation who were only represented by STATIONARY MEN or representatives. The common people NEVER sang congregationally with instrumental music.

Where are the ELDERS and DEACONS endorsing this hostile takeover. They are the Biblical PASTOR-TEACHERS and SERVING-TEACHERS of a TRUE church of Christ which has not had its CANDLES BLOWN OUT by puffer billies.

Worship in the Old Testament, like the New Testament, literally meant to fall on your face. However, prior to repudiating Israel in the book of Amos, God told them that they should SEEK Him. And David often mediates on his bed with Psalms and SEEKS the Lord in his heart.

Amos delivered God's message to Israel that they should SEEK Him through the Word: that would have been worship of Yahweh Who CANNOT be SEDUCED.

The Israelites worshiped SATURN (666) and the other Babylonian pantheon.

They LOST contact with the WORD and they all went into captivity and death.

This didn't happen through ignorance: the Babylonian Agents of Saturn deliberately used the LUST OF THE FLESH to attract the people to their temples where they were so obscene that the musicians performed right there in the TEMPLE.

Other than removing the Ark of the Covenant to the Jebusite High Place which God had given to David because David was too frightened of God to ever return to inquire of God, David was not a worship minister nor a priest.

Only when starving could David enter into the Holy Place.

It was unlawful for David the king to enter the Holy Place.

Therefore, David could not enter the TYPE of the Church.

Therefore, David would not be allowed to play his shepherd's harp IN CHURCH.

If he did, he would be fulfilling the TYPE of mocking Jesus as the once for all sacrifice of Lord Jesus Christ "outside the camp" and not in the Holy Place symbolic of SCHOOL and PRAYER and the BREAD nor in the Most Holy Place symbolic of OUR SPIRIT or mind which is the only place worship takes place.

A Jew would never simultaneously SING and PLAY. That would have been for them and for the Greeks an insult to the composer. Minstrels who both sang and played were in high demand and SOLOMON had lots of them: the word MUSICIAN and CONCUBINE comes from the same word.

Rather, as made clear in the MOVIES, David would recite (not sing) a stanza and then strum down the strings of a harp which could have as few as 3 strings. Then, he would recite the next stanza. Music as "tunefulness" belongs to the 19th century in religion.

While David lived, the Israelites did not WORSHIP in Jerusalem at the temple. However, David the KING and COMMANDERS of the army USED the warrior Levites in their plans for the temple which David did not build. God promised a FAMILY but David wanted a house to place the God he presumed to have in the Ark of the Covenant.

The musical or noise-making Levites could never go into the Holy Place as a type of the church. Their exclusion from the place of the "candlestick" or Menorah, table of bread and place of offering prayer as the incense was a type of Church.

John in Revelation has God promising to remove CANDLESTICKS from churches. The churches ARE the candlesticks in that their task is not to frazzle nerves with pagan "worship" but to make known the manifold wisdom of God.

Since the "noise making" LEVITES were excluded from the place of the CANDLESTICK they were excluded from the church of Christ.

To bring instruments into the Holy Place makes the musicians worthy of death.

The ONLY conclusion is that God HAS REMOVED the candlesticks for JEZEBEL type churches. Remember that SHE had hundreds of prophesiers where BOWING TO BAAL included GETTING UP on music and involved MAKING SELF VILE with the slave girls as David bragged about.

They "excelling" Levites were the actual SLAVE DRIVERS during the building of Solomon's temple which God allowed to be looted within five years of Solomons' death.

There is NO MUSIC WORD used in the entire Bible in connection with singing as worship. None.

THEY have suddenly surfaced questions about INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC because they are such students of the Bible.

Chris Seidman and Farmer's Branch Church of Christ: These references in Old and New Testament are attached at the conclusion of this paper, and the reader must take into consideration the context of each verse in his/her study of this issue. This particular discussion will center on the passage in Ephesians 5:18-21 (paralleled in Colossians 3:16).

This is because questions often have arisen as to whether or not instruments are to be used since seemingly none is mentioned in this passage.

No, that is not remotely the truth. The truth is that for more than ten years a band of strange men with complicity from once "christian" colleges have been DEFEATED by the instrumental group through UNITY MEETINGS. Jubilee was begun to deliberately introduce instrumental music and a broader role for women. The choice of the word JUBILEE which was in Catholicism always for the atonement. Therefore, JUBILEE repudiated the Words of Christ and therefore had no trouble lusting for MUSIC to save them from having to GO PREACH THE WORD. They could just hire professional EXECUTIVES to make a SEEKER CENTER after Willow Creek or the PURPOSE DRIVEN CULTS.

Part of the CHANGE MACHINERY is to tell you that the Bible is filled with positive comments about "singing and playing instruments as an act of worship."

The fact is that the Temple was granted as a LIKE THE BABYLONIAN temple because the ELDERS fired God and demanded a human king (Executive Minister). God promised that the kings would make them TITHE to the king and would make their boys into TRIUMPHAL musical teams to run before the king's chariot.

But NOT EVEN AT ITS WORST did Jerusalem or any pagan temple permit the MUSICIANS into the temple. Even in ancient Babylonia they played in the courts or in the king's part of the temple.

Paul mentioned the FIRST INSTRUMENT OF CHOICE in both psalms and the modern word, song. That instrument was in the translations at the Dead Sea the "harp of God" or the lips used by Jesus.

The LEADERSHIP should have taken the context as meaning something. They did not. Therefore, the EVIDENCE is false and therefore the conclusions are false.

The JUBILEE or NEW WINESKIN seeks to creat EXHILARATION to prove that God has been "known."

"But perhaps nothing was more characteristic of the mystery religions than what they called ecstasy. Believers in the mystery religions sought to cultivate a magical, sensuous communion with the divine. They would do almost anything to get themselves into a semiconscious, hallucinatory, hypnotic, or orgiastic spell

in which they believed they were sensually in contact with deity.
Some used wine to assist in the euphoric experience, as Paul implied in Ephesians 5:18.

"Whether from literal intoxication or emotional exhilaration, when worshipers fell into a state of euphoria, it was as if they had been drugged. They assumed they were in contact (knowing personally ks) with God. (MacArthur, John, Charismatic Chaos, p. 164. Zondervan)

Philo coined the word ENTHUSIASM which DOES NOT mean having Christ inside. The word is Enthus O MANIA. It is similar to the MADNESS Paul attributes to the Corinthians if they compose their own prayers and SONGS and perform them in the tongues or MINOR DIALECTS always used to sing just as the Jews saw Hebrew as their liturgical language and Catholics saw Latin as the language of song and sermon.