Isaiah 30 in the Septuagint in red
When Israel sinned at Mount Sinai it was largely beyond redemption. There, God turned them over to worship the starry hosts whose worship is defined by Amos in chapters 5 and 6. As Stephen repeated the story in Acts 7 the Jewish clergy were infuriated and killed him. In Canaan at the end of the period of Judges, Israel's elders or judges demanded a king like the nations so that they could worship like the nations. God warned that the kings would lead them into captivity and death.
For though they had mockingly rejected him who long before had been cast out and exposed, at the end of the events they marveled at him,
for their thirst was not like that of the righteous. Wisdom of Solomon 11:14 -
In return for their foolish and wicked thoughts, which led them astray to worship irrational serpents and worthless animals,thou didst send upon them a multitude of irrational creatures to punish them, Wisdom of Solomon 11:15 -
........... that they might learn that one is punished
........... by the very things by which he sins. Wisdom of Solomon 11:16 -THUS saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? Isa 66:1
For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. Isa 66: 2
He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dogs neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swines blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol.
Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. Isa 66: 3
I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not. Isai 66:4
Animal sacrifices in Jerusalem were part of this national cult which did not involve the common people except the warrior or muster-age males.
Of Elijah, Sirach notes of Israel:
"who heard rebuke at Sinai and judgments of vengeance at Horeb; Ecclesiasticus 48: 7.
...... who anointed kings to inflict retribution, and prophets to succeed you. Ecclesiasticus 48: 8.O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help. Hosea 13:9
I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? Hosea 13:10
........... I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath. Hosea 13:11Of David's Original Covenant in a spiritual sense:
He placed singers before the altar, to make sweet melody with their voices. Ecclesiasticus 47: 9.
Israel first failed by living like the Egyptians for their entire exile. They were so evil that God rescued the Egyptians from the Israelites who were polluting the name of Yahweh.
Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. Ezekiel 20: 7
But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. Ezekiel 20: 8
But I wrought for my names sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt. Ezekiel 20: 9
Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. Ezekiel 20:10
God brought Israel out to vindicate His own Name. However, He restored the Abrahamic Covenant of Grace but Israel "rose up to play" in musical idolatry. Therefore, He turned them over to worship the starry host.
Of the worship Israel was given for their destruction because of their musical idolatry at Mount Sinai, Jamieson, Fausset and Brown note that:
Molech . . . Chiun--"Molech" means "king" answering to Mars [BENGEL]; the Sun [JABLONSKI]; Saturn, the same as "Chiun" [MAURER]. The Septuagint translates "Chiun" into Remphan, as Stephen quotes it (Ac 7:42,43). The same god often had different names.
Molech is the Ammonite name; Chiun, the Arabic and Persian name, written also Chevan. In an Arabic lexicon Chiun means "austere"; so astrologers represented Saturn as a planet baleful in his influence. Hence the Phoenicians offered human sacrifices to him, children especially; so idolatrous Israel also. Rimmon was the Syrian name (2Ki 5:18); pronounced as Remvan, or "Remphan," just as Chiun was also Chevan. Molech had the form of a king; Chevan, or Chiun, of a star [GROTIUS]. Remphan was the Egyptian name for Saturn: hence the Septuagint translator of Amos gave the Egyptian name for the Hebrew, being an Egyptian. [HODIUS II, De Bibliorum Textibus Originalibus. 4.115].
The same as the Nile, of which the Egyptians made the star Saturn the representative [HARENBERG]. BENGEL considers Remphan or Rephan akin to Teraphim and Remphis, the name of a king of Egypt.
Teraphiym (h8655) ter-aw-feme'; plur. per. from 7495; a healer; Teraphim (sing. or plur.) a family idol: - idols (-atry), images, teraphim.
For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd. Zec.10:2
Rapha (h7495) raw-faw'; or 7503 raw-faw'; a prim. root; prop. to mend (by stitching), i. e. (fig.) to cure: - cure, (cause to) heal, physician, repair, * thoroughly, make whole. See 7503.
Raphah (h7503) raw-faw'; a prim. root; to slacken (in many applications, lit. or fig.): - abate, cease, consume, draw [toward evening], fail, (be) faint, be (wax) feeble, forsake, idle, leave, let alone (go, down), (be) slack, stay, be still, be slothful, (be) weak (- en). See 7495.
The Hebrews became infected with Sabeanism, the oldest form of idolatry, the worship of the Saba or starry hosts, in their stay in the Arabian desert, where Job notices its prevalence (Job 31:26); in opposition, in Am 5:27, Jehovah declares Himself "the God of hosts."
the star of your god--R. ISAAC CARO says all the astrologers represented Saturn as the star of Israel. Probably there was a figure of a star on the head of the image of the idol, to represent the planet Saturn; hence "images" correspond to "star" in the parallel clause. A star in hieroglyphics represents God (Nu 24:17). "Images" are either a Hebraism for "image," or refer to the many images made to represent Chiun.
The Star of David was originally the secret symbol of
the stargazing
priests, later adopted by the Israelite Kings David and Solomon and
subsequently by the Hebrew people as a whole.
27. beyond Damascus--In Ac 7:43 it is "beyond Babylon," which includes beyond Damascus. In Amos time, Damascus was the object of Israel's fear because of the Syrian wars. Babylon was not yet named as the place of their captivity.
Stephen supplies this name. Their place of exile was in fact, as he states, "beyond Babylon," in Halah and Habor by the river Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes (2Ki 17:6; compare here Am 1:5 4:3 6:14). The road to Assyria lay through "Damascus." It is therefore specified, that not merely shall they be carried captives to Damascus, as they had been by Syrian kings (2Ki 10:32,33 13:7),
but, beyond that, to a region whence a return was not so possible as from Damascus.
They were led captive by Satan into idolatry, therefore God caused them to go captive among idolaters. Compare 2Ki 15:29 16:9 Isa 8:4, whence it appears Tiglath-pileser attacked Israel and Damascus at the same time at Ahaz' request (Am 3:1).
"Though he seems to have predicted beforehand of that just man, that he took no part in the meetings and deliberations of the Jews, taking counsel about the slaying of our Lord,
yet divine Scripture has ever far-reaching applications: after the immediate sense has been exhausted, in all directions it fortifies the practice of the religious life, so that here also you have an utterance which is not far from a plain interdicting of the shows.
If he called those few Jews an assembly of the wicked,
how much more will he so designate so vast a gathering of heathens! Are the heathens less impious, less sinners, less enemies of Christ, than the Jews were then? And see, too, how other things agree. For at the shows they also stand in the way.
"For they call the spaces between the seats going round the amphitheatre, and the passages which separate the people running down, ways. The place in the curve where the matrons sit is called a chair. Therefore, on the contrary, it holds, unblessed is he who has entered any council of wicked men, and has stood in any way of sinners, and has sat in any chair of scorners.
"We may understand a thing as spoken generally, even when it requires a certain special interpretation to be given to it. For some things spoken with a special reference contain in them general truth.
When God admonishes the Isrealites of their duty, or sharply reproves them,
......He has surely a reference to all men;when He threatens destruction to Egypt and Ethiopia,
...... He surely pre-condemns every sinning nation, whatever.If, reasoning from species to genus, every nation that sins against them is an Egypt and Ethiopia; so also, reasoning from genus to species, with reference to the origin of shows, every show is an assembly of the wicked.
Tertullian also wrote Chapter XXIII.
Moreover, if sorcerers call forth ghosts, and even make what seem the souls of the dead to appear;
if they put boys to death, in order to get a response from the oracle; if, with their juggling illusions, they make a pretence of doing various miracles;
if they put dreams into people's minds by the power of the angels and demons whose aid they have invited, by whose influence, too, goats and tables are made to divine,-
how much more likely is this power of evil to be zealous in doing with all its might, of its own inclination, and for its own objects, what it does to serve the ends of others! Or if both angels and demons do just what your gods do, where in that case is the pre-eminence of deity, which we must surely think to be above all in might?
Here is the Musical Worship of Molech from an old line drawing.
"Sometimes he was represented as a horrible idol with fire burning inside so that what was placed in his arms was consumed. In the above illustration, a heathen priest has taken a baby from its mother to be offered to Molech. Lest the parents should relent, a loud noise was made on drums to hide the screams The word for drums is tophim from which the word 'Tophet,' the place mentioned in verses such as Jeremiah 7:31: ''They have built the high place of Tophet... to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire. While drums sounded, bands played, and priests chanted, human sacrifices were devoured in the flames." (Woodrow, p. 72-73).The Music Grove Stands for Hell
When Israel came into Canaan they enjoyed "joint meetings" with the idolaters at the groves or high places. It was from these high places that we see the charismatic prophets coming down to meet with Saul as they assisted in "turning him into another man." Of topeth one writer notes that--
"the most probable is its connection with a root meaning 'burning'--'place of burning." (Int Std Bible Ency, p. 2999)
Topheth "denotes properly what causes loathing or abhorrence; that which produces disgust and vomiting" (Barnes). This association between loathing of Topheth and the tabret was so clear that the early revisers have Job 17:6 KJV saying:"He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his shildren shall fail. He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret."
Thus, "I was an abhorrence" became "I was a tabret." In either case one beat upon it or him when he was just as innocent as the child sacrificed to Moloch.
"This valley was early selected as the seat of the worship of Moloch, where his rites were celebrated by erecting a huge brazen image with a hollow trunk and arms, which was heated, and within which, or on the arms of which, children were placed as a sacrifice to the horrid idol. To drown their cries, drums were beaten, which were called Tophim." (Barnes, Isaiah 33, p. 463).
From the evidence we understand that the "music grove" which Solomon established along with the temples of his idolatrous wives, finally became the symbol of hell itself.
Topheth occurs in two places in a striking comparison. In verse 32 it is tambourines or tabrets in the King James Version. In verse 33 it is Topeth. The tabrets with which Satan came equipped are a symbol of punishment and the almost identical word, topheth, is the place which came to stand for hell.
"The Hebrew words are nearly identical; and Tophet was probably the kings 'music grove' or garden, denoting originally nothing evil or hateful. Afterwards it was defiled by idols, and polluted by the sacrifices of Baal and the fires of Molech. Then it became the place of abomination, the very gate or pit of hell." (Smith, p. 960)
"Once the music-grove, where Solomon's singers, with voice and instrument, regaled the king, the court and the city; then the temple of Baal, the high place of Moloch, resounding with the cries of burning infants; then (in symbol) the place where is the wailing and gnashing of teeth." (p. 3313-14, four-volume Smith).
Astrology is one of the primary methods of obtaining a message from the dead.
"Manesseh also cultivated star and planetary worship (II Kings 21:3, 5) and the cult of Moloch, an Ammonite deity, whose worship was closely connected with astral divination (Amos 5:25, 26 Acts 7:41-43) and whose ritual was characterized by parents sacrificing their children by compelling them to pass through or into a furnace of fire." (Unger, Merrill, Archaeology and th]e Old Testament, Zondervan, P. 279)
Isaiah 30 has God promising to punish the Assyrians by describing the musical procession of the Jews to the temple and the valley of Topheth (the king Solomon's music grove) to burn children with musical accompaniment. The goal was to hide the screams of the dying from the mothers and to get an oracle or message from Molech.
The Israelite never recovered from their love of the luxury (even in slavery) of Egypt and sought their help from them.
Woe to the apostate children, saith the Lord: ye have framed counsel, not by me, and covenants not by my Spirit, to add sins to sins: Isaiah 30:1LXX
even they that proceed to go down into Egypt, but they have not enquired of me, that they might be helped by Pharao, and protected by the Egyptians. Isaiah 30:2 LXXFor the protection of Pharao shall be to you a disgrace, and there shall be a reproach to them that trust in Egypt. Isaiah 30:3 LXX
See Hislops comments about carrying the tabernacles of false gods. Connects to Amos and Stephen.
See Clement of Alexandria.
For there are princes in Tanes, evil messengers. Isaiah 30:4 LXX
In vain shall they labor in seeking to a people which shall not profit them for help, but shall be for a shame and reproach Isaiah 30:5 LXX
The Vision of the Quardrupeds in the desert Isaiah 30:6 LXX
In affliction and distress, where are the lion and lion's whelp, thence come also asps, and the young of flying asps, there shall they be who bore their wealth on asses and camels to a nation which shall not profit them.
The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent (hissing), they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them. Isaiah 30:6KJV
See how music induces the burden through a DRUG HIGH.
Burden is:
Massa (h4853) mas-saw'; from 5375; a burden; spec. tribute, or (abstr.) porterage; fig. an utterance, chiefly a doom, especially singing; mental, desire: - burden, carry away, prophecy, song
THE burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; Isaiah 15:1
Therefore mine heart shall sound (lament) for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished. Isaiah 48:36
In Greek:
Epôidos [epaidô]: singing to or over, using songs or charms to heal wounds. one to charm away such fears, sung to music, phônai, chorus, burden, refrain,
I. singing to or over: as Subst. an enchanter, acting as a charm for or against
2. pass. sung or said after, morphês epôidon called after this form, Eur.
II. in metre, epôidos, ho, a verse or passage returning at intervals, a chorus, burden, refrainAeidô
I. to sing, Il., etc.:--then of any sound, to twang, of the bowstring, Od.; to whistle, of the wind, Mosch.; to ring, of a stone struck.
As psallo or melody is connected to the harp or bow only in the sense of "plucking" a string. The literally SHOT OUT hymns to kill. In the same way, odeing in the pagan or secular sense "lifted you up" and was destructive. Terefore, this "singing" was so destructive that it is connected to the twang of the bowstring which send panic and then a literal arrow into your heart.
The similar word implicates the rhetoricians and sophists as "sorcerers" and of the Hypocrite sectarians:
Tollo Latin raise up consume in speech making. to lift or take up, to raise, always with the predom. idea of motion upwards or of removal from a former situation. To lift up, raise up, elevate, exalt,
II. To take up a thing from its place, to take away, remove, to bear or carry away, make way with, take away with one (syn.: aufero, adimo).
Aeidô also includes: to take off, carry off, make away with, to kill, destroy, ruin, etc.
B. Trop., to do away with, remove; to abolish, annul, abrogate, cancel
1. To raise, lift, lift up, elevate, set up clamorThis word, inturn, leads back to: Aeirô
Humneô
Descant upon, in song or speech. Ever singing of my want of faith, tell over and over again, harp upon, repeat, recite, sing, chant, will ring in their ears
Aeidô is regularly associated to:
Tettix a winged insect fond of basking on trees, when the male makes a chirping or clicking noise by means of certain drums or 'tymbals' underneath the wings. If you see the "ministers of the gods" basking in the sun you know that the locusts have arrived: Plato calls them hoi Mousôn prophêtai. they also became a prov. for garrulity, lalein tettix identifies the speakers in tongues as the LOCUSTS:
Laleô to talk, chat, prattle, babble,
The proper sense, to chatter, is sometimes opposite to articulate speech, as of monkeys, of locusts, to chirp.Paul identified playing the pipe to speaking in tongue: Laleo speaks of musical sounds, aulôi lalein
Laleo has a meaning similar to:
Babrazô , chatter, chirp, of the grasshopper
Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. 1 Cor 14:11
........... Barbaros (g915) bar'-bar-os; of uncert. der.; a foreigner (i.e. non- Greek): - barbarian (-rous).Exairô -lift up, lift off the earth 2. raise in dignity, exalt, magnify, exaggerate it. Rhetoric, treat in elevated style, of music
........... 3. arouse, stir up excites thy wish to die, pervert, make away with, get rid of, to be excited, agitated
........... Includes: Choreia [choreuô] a dance, esp. the choral or round dance with its musicThe purpose is.
Nasa (h5375) naw-saw'; a prim. root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, lit. and fig., absol. and rel. (as follows): - accept, advance, arise, (able to, [armour], suffer to) bear (-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self)... lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, / swear, take (away, up), utterly, wear, yield
In the Greek:
Aeirô [attic airô] to lift for the purpose of carrying, to bear away, to lift up for oneself, i. e. bear off, to raise or stir up, aeirasthai polemon to undertake a long war, to be lifted up, excite. achthos aeirein, of ships of burden, Od.; mê moi oinon aeire offer me not wine
Jesus outlawed this using another word for the burden levied on people by religion:
........... Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Mt.11:28This burden is treating people like pack animals:
........... Phortizo (g5412) for-tid'-zo; from 5414; to load up (prop. as a vessel or animal), i.e. (fig.)
........... to overburden with ceremony (or spiritual anxiety): - lade, be heavy laden.Phortos (g5412) for'-tos; from 5342; something carried, i.e. the cargo of a ship: - lading.
Similar to
Kithar-izô ,( [kitharis] ):--play the cithara, phormingi, kitharize. Instrument players were defined as parasites.
The included Attic word Airô to raise up, exalt, Aesch.:--of passion, to exalt, excite, hupsou airein thumon to grow excited, to raise by words, to extol, exaggerate, to take up for oneself: to carry off, win, gain
The musical idolatry at Mount Sinai:
And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp. Exodus 32:17
And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome; but the noise of them that sing do I hear. Exodus 32:18
Anah (h6031) aw-naw'; a prim. root [possibly rather ident. with 6030 through the idea of looking down or browbeating]; to depress lit. or fig., trans. or intrans. (in various applications, as follow): - abase self, afflict (-ion, self), answer [by mistake for 6030], chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force, gentleness, humble (self), hurt, ravish, sing [by mistake for 6030], speak [by mistake for 6030], submit self, weaken, * in any wise.
Anah (h6030) aw-naw'; a prim. root; prop. to eye or (gen.) to heed, i. e. pay attention; by impl. to respond; by extens. to begin to speak; spec. to sing, shout, testify, announce: - give account, afflict [by mistake for 6030], (cause to, give) answer, bring low [by mistake for 6030], cry, hear, Leannoth, lift up, say, * scholar, (give a) shout, sing (together by course), speak, testify, utter, (bear) witness. See also 1042, 1043.
The Eyptians shall help you utterly in vain: tell them, This your consolation is vain. Isaiah 30:7 LXX
Now
then sit down and write these words on a
tablet, and in a book,
for these things shall be for many long day,
and even for ever. Isaiah 30:8 LXX
For the people is dlsobedient, false children who would not hear the law of God: Isaiah 30:9 LXX
who say to the prophets Report not to us; and to them that see vislons, Speak them not to us,but speak and report to us another error, Isaiah 14:10 LXX
and turn us aside from this way, remove from us this path, and remove from us the oracle of lsrael. Isaiah 30:11 LXX
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In Job the story is the
same:
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. Job 21:11
This dance was either a sign that WE WILL NOT LISTEN TO YOUR WORD or a MARK that we have lost contact with God:
And in Ezekiel: Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls..........and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, ..........saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the Lord. Ezekiel 33:30 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, ..........and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: ..........for with their mouth they shew much love, ....................but their heart goeth after their covetousness. Ezekiel 33:31 And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song ........... of one that hath a pleasant voice, ............and can play well on an instrument: ............for they hear thy words, ....................... but they do them not. Ezekiel 33:32
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Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye have refused to obey these words
and have trusted in falsehood;
and because thou hast murmured,
and been confident in this respect: Isaiah 30:12 LXX
therefore
shall
this sin be to you as a
wall suddenly falling
when a strong city has been taken,
of which the fall is very near at
hand. Isaiah 30:13 LXX
Thus saith the Lord the Holy Lord of Israel. When thou shait turn and mourn then tbou shalt be saved; and thou shalt know where thou wast, when thou didst trust in vanities: then your strength became vain, yet ye would not hearken: Isaiah 30:15 LXX
but
ye
said, We will flee upon
horses;
......
therefore
shall ye flee:
and,
We will be aided by swift rlders;
......
therefore
shall they that pursue you be
swlft. Isaiah 30:16 LXX
A thousand shall flee because of
the voice
of one,
......
and
many shall flee on account of the
voice of five,
......
until
ye be left as a signal-post upon a mountain,
......
and
as one bearing an ensign upon a hlll. Isaiah
30:17 LXX
This motif is repeated by Paul to the same kind of people:
For though ye have ten thousand instructors (boy leaders) in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. 1 Corinthians 4:15
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me. 1 Corinthians 4:16
For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ,
as I teach every where in every church. 1 Corinthians 4:17I thank my God, I speak with tongues (foreign languages) more than ye all: 1 Corinthians 14:18
Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue. 1 Corinthians 14:19
And the Lord will again wait, that he may pity you, and will therefore be exalted that he may have mercy upon vou because the Lord your God is a judge blessed are they that stay themselves upon him. Isaiah 30:l8 LXX
For the holy people shall dwell in Sion and whereas Jerusalem has wept bitterly saying, Pity me; he shall pity thee when he perceived the voice of thy cry he hearkened to thee. Isaiah 30:19 LXX
And
though the Lord shall give
you the bread of
affliction and sent
water,
yet they
that
cause thee to err shall no more at all draw
nigh to
thee,
for thine eyes
shall
see
those
that cause thee
to err Isaiah 30:20 LXX
and
thine ears shall hear
the
words of them that went after thee to lead thee
astray,
who say, This is the way, let us walk
in it, whether to the right
or to the
left. Isaiah 30:21 LXX
and thou shalt grind to powder (like "melody" in Greek) the gilt ones,
and shalt scatter them as the water of a removed woman,
and thou shalt thrust them forth as dung. Isaiah 30:22 LXX
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THE FULFILLMENT OF THOSE ALREADY CAST OUT INTO THE WORLD OR MARKETPLACE.
WHAT JESUS DID TO PREPARE HIS WAY?
Jesus CAST OUT the minstrels like DUNG. A minstrel is: Aaoidos [a^], ho, ( [aeidô]) singer, minstrel, bard, 3. enchanter
Aoidos ( [aeidô] ) singer, MINSTREL, bard, I goôn, chrêsmôn aoidos, E.HF110, Heracl. 403; pratos a., of the cock,
2. fem., songstress of the nightingale, aoidos Mousa
Of GOON or the weeping song and dancing when the clergy Piped:
The MUSES are agents of Apollo, Abaddon or Apollon: the LOCUSTS.
But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose. Matthew 9:25
PUT FORTH: Ekballo (g1544) ek-bal'-lo; from 1537 and 906; to eject (lit. or fig.): - bring forth, cast (forth, out), drive (out), expel, leave, pluck (pull, take, thrust) out, put forth (out), send away (forth, out).
Ekballô I. to throw or cast out of a place, 2. to cast out of a place, banishBallo (g906) bal'-lo; a prim. verb; to throw (in various applications, more or less violent or intense): - arise, cast (out) dung, lay, lie, pour, put (up), send, strike, throw (down), thrust. Comp. 4496.
H2490 châlal khaw-lal' to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one’s word), (from H2485 ) to play (the flute): take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
Used of Lucifer-Zoe
Ezek. 28:16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Rhipto (g4496) hrip'-to; a, through the idea of sudden motion); to fling (prop. with a quick toss, thus differing from 906, which denotes a deliberate hurl;
VI. to produce, of women
IV. Dem.; to drive an actor from the stage, Lat. explodere, I. to drive out or off by clapping;
orig. a scenic word said of a player, to hiss or hoot off, explode him.
Regularly used of:
Beezeboul Beelzeboul (Beelzebub) is used, then, merely as another name for Satan (Matt., xii, 24-29; Luke, xi, 15-22) by whom the enemies of Our Lord accused Him of being possessed and by whom they claimed He cast out demons. Beelzebub as fly-chaser (chasse-mouche). In the Babylonian epic of the deluge, "the gods gather over the sacrificer like flies"
He is the DUNG GOD also.
Those who deceived by telling you that they HAD A VISION or Heard the Audible Voice of God or the Holy Spirit told them a decade ago to lie about all of the Bible on the NEVER musical are REALLY, TRULY spirit filled: the Spirit of demons and the DUNGY GOD.Used with: daimonion , the favours of forlune, II. inferior divine being, applied to the 'genius' of Socrates, " prophetic monitor always spoke to me 2. evil spirit, d. phaula. LXXDe.32.17, Ev.Matt.7.22,
Then shall there be rain to the seed of thy land, and the bread of the fruit of thy land shall be plenteous und rich: and thy cattle shall feed in that day in a fertile and spacious place. Isaiah 30:23 LXX
Your bulls and Your oxen that till the ground, shall eat chaff mixed with winnowed barley. Isaiah 30:24 LXX
And there shall be upon every lofty mountain and upon every high hill, water running in that day, when many shall perish, and when the towers shall fall. Isaiah 30:25
And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be seven fold in the day when the Lord shall heal the breach of his people, and shall heal the pain of thy wound. Isaiah 30:26 LXX
Behold,
the name of the Lord
comes after a long time,
burning wrath; the word of
his lips is with glory, a word full of anger,
and the anger of his wrath shall
devour as
fire.
Isaiah 30:27 LXX
And
his breath, as rushing water in a
valley, reach
reach as far as the neck, and be divided, to confound the nations for their vain error; error also shall
pursue them and overtake them.
Isaiah 30:28 LXX
And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. Matthew 3:9
And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Matthew 3:10
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost (Word), and with fire: Matthew 3:11
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Matthew 3:12
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. Proverbs 16:27
All your pomp has been brought down to the grave (Sheol or hell), along with the noise of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you and worms cover you. Isaiah 14:11NIV
How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! Isaiah 14:12
You said in your heart, "I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. Isaiah 14:13
And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets. Zechariah 9:3
Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured (burned up) with fire. Zechariah 9:4
And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot. Is.23:15
"Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered (as a male)." Is.23:16
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. Zechariah 9:9
And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth. Zechariah 9:10
John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire: Lu.3:16
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable. Lu.3:17
Look again as Isaiah 30:27-28
And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be seven fold in the day when the Lord shall heal the breach of his people, and shall heal the pain of thy wound. Isaiah 30:26 LXX
Behold, the name of the Lord comes after a long time, burning wrath; the word of his lips is with glory, a word full of anger, and the anger of his wrath shall devour as fire. Isaiah 30:27 LXX
The healing prescription began with John. The Word is Christ's Instrument:
And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John. Luke 7:29
But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God for (against) themselves, being not baptized of him. Lu.7:30
Look in the scroll of the LORD and read: None of these will be missing, not one will lack her mate.
........... For it is his mouth that has given the order, and
........... his Spirit will gather them together. Isa 34:16As for me, this is my covenant with them," says the LORD. "My Spirit, who is on you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of their descendants from this time on and forever," says the LORD. Isa 59:21
We know that the counsel of God during John's preaching was to be baptized. Those who refused to be baptized rejected the counsel of God for their lives. Can we not believe that those who reject the counsel of God in Christ for their lives will meet with "a word of anger" where the Word is God's Spirit which saves or consumes. That "Word" is blown across the wheat as "breath" or "Spirit" to save the wheat but to blow away the chaff which will be gathered and burned up.
Now, what is the record of Christ's "counsel of God for our lives" today:
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. Mark 16:15
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved;
but he that believeth not shall be damned. Mark 16:16
What brings the judgment?
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them:
for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon;
and behold, a greater than Solomon is here. Luke 11:31
What is the "Spirit" which rested upon Jesus and He will "pour over us"?
AND there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: Isaiah 11:1
And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; Isaiah 11:2
And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: Isaiah 11:3
Next, God through Isaiah condemns the Jews by using the practice of some of them of offering children in human sacrifice to the noise of musical instruments to silence the screams of the children which would be interpreted by the priests as "speaking in tongues" in which God would give them a supernatural messate:
Must ye always rejoice, and go into my holy places continually, as they that keep a feast? and must ye go with a pipe, as those that rejoice into the mountain of the Lord, to the God of Israel Isaiah 30:29 LXX
"The ritual observances at the Hebrew and at a Canaanite sanctuary were so similar that to the mass of the people Jehovah worship and Baal worship were not separated by any well-marked line...
A sacrifice was a public ceremony of a township or clan... Then the crowds streamed into the sanctuary from all sides, dressed in their gayest attire, marching joyfully to the sound of music, and bearing with them not only the victims appointed for sacrifice, but store of bread and wine set forth the feast... Universal hilarity prevailed." (Gurney, O.R., Some Aspects of Hittite Religion, p. 37, Oxford University Press, 1977)
"Many of the Psalms are expressive of the parade dance, or dance procession, in a way which show it to have been the characteristic form of the festival (Psalms 30:12, 87:7, 149:3, 150:4; Is. 30:29) and that this was where many of the Psalms were used." ( W. O. E. Osterley, The Sacred Dance (Cambridge: N. P., 1923), p. 94)
Strabo, Geography: Fourthly, music, which includes dancing as well as rhythm and melody, at the same time, by the delight it affords and by its artistic beauty,
"The cultic dance went on right down to the last days of the Temple. Rabbinic tradition speaks particularly of a torch dance by night at the water pouring ceremony at the Feast of Tabernacles: It was said that the gladness there was above everything. Pious men danced with torches in their hands and sang songs of joy and praised,
while the Levites played all sorts of instruments. The dance drew great crowds of spectators for whom grandstands had been erected. It did not end until the morning at a given sign, when water from the spring of Shiloh was poured over the altar. This is certainly not the invention of later Jewish times, but a very old tradition" ( W. O. E. Osterley, The Sacred Dance (Cambridge: N. P., 1923), p. 94)
But Jesus said that this was not the Water He provided.
brings us in touch with the divine, and this for the following reason;
for although it has been well said that human beings then act most like the gods when they are doing good to others,
yet one might better say, when they are happy; and such happiness consists of rejoicing, celebrating festivals, pursuing philosophy, and engaging in music;
........... for, if music is perverted when musicians turn their art to sensual delights
........... at symposiums and in orchestric and scenic performances and the like,
Peter Lange writes of Isaiah 30: "But the skeleton comes alive and does an ecstatic dance of death in one of Isaiah's greatest poems, a religious song meant to accompany a human sacrifice at the Jerusalem Tophet. Isaiah began preaching in Judah at almost the exact time that the first sacrificial urns were planted in the Carthaginian Tophet.
Such shall be your song, as on a night a feast is celebrated with gladness of heart, as when one marches in procession with the flute, to enter the mountain of Yahweh, to the Rock of Israel. Yahweh has made heard the crash of His voice, the down-sweep of His arm he has displayed, with hot wrath and flame of consuming fire, cloudburst and flood and hailstones. Yes! At the voice of Yahweh Assyria will cower- with His staff He will beat him.
Every passage of the rod of His punishment which Yahweh will lay upon him will be to the sound of timbrels and lyres; with battles of offerings He will fight against him. For his Topheth has long been prepared,
He himself is installed as a victim [molek]. Yahweh has made its fire-pit deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance. The breath of Yahweh, like a torrent of sulphur, sets it ablaze! - Isaiah 30:29- 33
"What's amazing about Isaiah's song is its explicit ritual content, and the undeniable authorship of Yahweh in the torture and immolation of the Assyrian victim, who is probably the great Assyrian conquerer Sennacherib. The Assyrians were threatening the existence of Judah during Isaiah's lifetime, and they succeeded in annihilating the northern kingdom of Samaria (Israel proper). These verses served as the centerpiece of Paul Mosca's Ph.D. thesis at Harvard in 1975, Child; Sacrifice in Israelite and Canaanite Religion." The translation used above is borrowed from Mosca with a few slight changes. It is more explicit than the New English Bible or any other popular text, because Mosca translates mlk as molek that is, sacrificial victim.;" In most traditional renderings of these verses, mlk was translated melek- king.
Perhaps Mosca is right in suggesting that Isaiah was creating a deliberate pun, since, in this nocturnal rite, the victim (molek) is the Assyrian king (melek). But even if this technical term is rejected, Isaiah's poem is clearly about a ritual killing.
The Assyrian is seen as the Tallest Tree in the Garden of Eden. They represent the upward grasping urge to become the god of the world.
The faithful Jews could rejoice when the Assyrians were destroyed. However, they would be destroyed as Judah would later be destroyed and as Jerusalem would be destroyed in AD 70.
This is the same kind of feast which sentenced Israel to destruction by being "turned over to worship the host of heaven." The primary "wandering star" or planet was Saturn which seems to have been more prominent. Saturn is the Molech at Jerusalem or the Chiun at Gerezim condemned by Amos.
And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the Lord. Ex 32:5
The feast is from the Hebrew:
Chag (h2282) khag; or 2283 khawg; from 2287; a festival, or a victim therefor: - (solemn) feast (day), sacrifice, solemnity.
Chaga (h2283) khaw-gaw'; from an unused root mean. to revolve [comp. 2287]; prop. vertigo, i. e. (fig.) fear: - terror.And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one t