Jeremiah 7 and the Law of Silence
Almost all christianism or religionism with its unlawful priesthood claims to have a superior spiritual connection wiith God. The Scribes and Pharisees thought that they could change the Word of God to give it more power and to fetch a higher price. Therefore, Jesus marked such speakers, singers and instrument players as hypocrites. It one suggests that God has not condemned all of the theatrical arts and crafts as legalistic tools to do HARDER worship services the one can say that Jesus has NOT said, "thou shalt NOT be a hypocrite." Nehemiah 12 looking backwared by the Spirit OF Christ called the king and sacrificial system PARASITES.
God is never silent about anything He wants or rejects. If you are an EARTHLING then you cannot speak anything but earth.
John 3:31 He that cometh from above is above all:
he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth:
He that cometh from heaven is above all.If you are an EARTHLING then you cannot hear from heaven or the spirit.
John 3:32 And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth;
and NO MAN receiveth his testimony.If YOU receive testimony (Spirit) directly from God then YOU claim that YOUR words are the GUARANTEE that God is not a liar. If you reject the Spirit promised AFTER baptism then you call Jesus Christ and most of church history LIARS.
He that hath received his testimony [Spirit] hath set to his seal that God is true. John 3:33If you claim that you are the "receiver" which converts breath or Spirit into words then you claim that you ARE Jesus Christ.
For he whom God hath sent speaketh the WORDS of God:The words did not originate with Jesus the Son any more than the sunlight which strikes our face IS the sun. He spoke what the MIND of God spake forth through His breath.
That is, Jesus Christ is the Word (words) of God MADE FLESH: If you claim that you were God Who dwelled among men then you are a liar. Because,for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. John 3:34
Measure means a Limited Portion: If you claim that you speak the words of God then you deny that ALL of the Spirit was received by the Son of God as the ordained "receiver." But, Jesus said that only the words that I SPEAK are SPIRIT and that leaves NOTHING for mortals to speak.
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. John 6:63If Jesus The Christ of God observed the silence of God then please do not trust your children to a man who sees visions, hears audible voices, hears the Holy Spirit tell him to lie about all of the Bible or suggest that God's SILENCE is their AUTHORITY to invent CEREMONIAL LEGALISM because they are lost and need to work their way into God's grace.
While God has NOT been silent about using "machines for doing hard work" in the assembly, those who claim their right to deliberately destroy people CLAIM that God and the Bible had nothing to say about silence. This is one that comes to mind because the Israelites were abandoned to paganism because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai although God HATH NOT said, thou shallt not engage in musical idolatry.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel;
Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. Jeremiah 7:2121. Put ... burnt offerings unto ... sacrifices ... eat flesh--Add the former (which the law required to be wholly burnt) to the latter (which were burnt only in part), and "eat flesh" even off the holocausts or burnt offerings. As far as I am concerned, saith Jehovah, you may do with one and the other alike. I will have neither (Isa 1:11 Ho 8:13 Am 5:21,22).
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
Some people are so simple that they might say that WE can be rightous AND burn innocent animals without tainting either. They say, "If we add instruments we are STILL singing."
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
God hath not said, thou shalt not sing and play instruments and pretend that you are worshiping Me.
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 7:24THE took the liberty when God had been silent and imposed it on others: No man can hear the voice of God and therefore man's imagination is NATURALLY doing to do evil.
Rom. 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
2Cor. 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee. Psa 5:10
When the prophets were sent to warn them it was the Spirit OF Christ
Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day,
Yet they HEARKENED NOT unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. Jeremiah 7:26
I have even sent unto you all my servants the PROPHETS,
daily rising up early and sending them: Jeremiah 7:25The prophets were the enemies of the priestly class. When people IMAGINE that God wants to be disturbed with loud noise--never called music--it is certain that the "music" is the MARK which proves that they will not or cannot hear the Words of God. Pitiful.
Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them;
but they will not hearken to thee:
thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee. Jeremiah 7:27But thou shalt say unto them,
This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God,
nor receiveth correction: truth is perished,
and is cut off from their mouth. Jeremiah 7:28God turned them over to worship the starry host because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. When they demanded a king it was so that they could WORSHIP LIKE THE NATIONS.
Gowy (h1471) go'ee; rarely (short.) goy go'-ee; appar. from the same root as 1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence a Gentile; also (fig.) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts: - Gentile, heathen, nation, people
And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways:
now make us a king to judge us like all the nations. 1 Sam 8:5Like the nations the LORD destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the LORD your God. De.8:20
You say, "We want to be like the nations (heathen), like the peoples of the world, who serve wood and stone." But what you have in mind will never happen. Eze.20:32
Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away,
and take up a lamentation on high places;
for the Lord hath REJECTED and forsaken the generation of his wrath. Jeremiah 7:29In the Greek language, Paul warned about older males lifting holy PALMS rather than women waving unholy ARMS. That was to prevent the outbreak of wrath which could ONLY happen among women and perverted males. This was the abomination to which God abandoned them.
For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord:
they have set their ABOMINATION in the house which is called by my name,
to pollute it. Jeremiah 7:30Bdelug-mos A. abomination, LXX 1 Ki.25.31, Na.3.6.
Nah 3:1 Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn't depart.
[2] The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,
[3] the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,[4] because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, .who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.
Kesheph (h3785) keh'-shef; from 3784; magic: - sorcery, witchcraft.
Kashshap (h3786) kash-shawf'; from 3784; a magician: - sorcerer.
Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: Je.27:9
Kashaph (h3784) kaw-shaf'; a prim. root; prop. to whisper a spell, i. e. to inchant or practise magic: - sorcerer, (use) witch (-craft).
Jer. 7:31 And they have built the high places of Tophet,which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
Of Molech from Amos: "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, Ralph, Babylon Mystery Religion, p. 72-73)
This is a picture of the "worship" in Amos
which people claim the right to restore
as the curse imposed by God BECAUSE of musical idolatry.Jer. 7:32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
Jer. 7:33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
Jer. 7:34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
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