Tom Haddon's Homebuilders class Madison Church of Christ Nashville

Tom Haddon's Hombuilders at Madison Church of Christ, Nashville: Transcribed by Bobby M. Johnson 5/30/01 thru 6/5/01 Madison member since 1985 Transcript of Homebuilders sunday school class. A recording of Tom Haddon on how to transition the congregation to Saddleback and Holy entertainment in Homebuilders Class.

See the Background to BABYLONIAN TITHING being promoted at Madison Church of Christ by C. Bruce White.

If you are studying the Holy Spirit at Madison you might want to bone up on Max Lucado and Rubel Shelly who are quite unique in defining the Holy Spirit as a third member of the God "family." There is no Biblical or historical scholarship which does not go to the extreme when defining the TRINITY without warning that the Godhead is NEVER SEPARATED into three PERSONS. Rather, the Godhead is manifested in three and often many more forms of PERSONAE or manifestations. Paul Tillich warns that before the liberal 19th century it would have been blasphemy to call the Godhead persons instead of personae or ways in which the Invisible God makes Himself known in the world.

John Mark Hicks warns that the INCARNATIONAL views of Max Lucado and Rubel Shelly diminishes the humanity of Jesus Christ. That "denies that Christ came fully in the flesh" and that we relate to Jesus the Man as the visible image of the invisible God. Therefore, we do not relate to a SUBSTITUTE for the Son whose first name is HOLY and last name is SPIRIT. Tshis refusal to deal with a human Jesus leads to charismatic and musical pseudo-worship trying to get and peddle drug-induced FEELINGS as the movement of one third of the God FAMILY. This is defined by John as tampering with being an anti-Christ:

And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. 1Jn.4:3

This anti-Christ view refuses to credit the once-delivered Word of Jesus which He defined as "Spirit and Life" (John 6:63) and attempting to ascend or force Christ to descend to bring a better message. This anti-word view has produced the CORE GOSPEL driving many churches.

God is pure or holy Spirit but neither in Greek nor Hebrew does the word for "spirit" speak of a person or human-like being. Rather, the spirit means THE MENTAL DISPOSITION OF a Being. In this case, Paul defined the Holy Spirit to us as THE MIND OF CHRIST (1 Cor. 2).

In churches of Christ this was the universal view prior to H. Leo Boles, Max Lucado and Rubel Shelly who have made SPIRITISM into a cottage industry.

See how Kregg Hood infiltrates with the legalistic TITHE

See how this fits the claim of preachers to being priests and the restoration of the Levitical "sounders."

See How Hitler Defines the Process of the Purpose Driven Cult.

Donnie Cruz Letter to the Elders

The purpose driven church turns the church into a theater for what they call "holy entertainment." This has the effect of driving away the older people and one of the Madison take over leaders made it public that "we are just waiting for the old folks to die so we can take over."

Holy entertainment also diminishes the bible classes and turns them into entertainment so that the kids will not have a negative view about church. The preacher is replaced with a musical worship facilitator who, it is claimed, leads the worshipers into the presence of God. This says that the musicians replace Christ as the only mediator or intercessor between man and God.

It is important to grasp that THE WORD MUSIC IS NOT AN OPERATIVE WORD FOR THE WORSHIP OF A SPIRIT GOD. The "singing" passages are really Teaching or Preaching passages; the material is the revealed Word of Christ (Spirit) and the singing and melody are "in the heart." This is true because Jesus says that worship is IN SPIRIT and IN TRUTH. This means that worship is not "enthusiastic" but is in the MIND as the new PLACE for worship. Any external diversion such as performance music makes in spirit worship impossible.

Music throughout the Old Testament was both the cause and MARK that people would not listen to the Word of God. Modern scholars make the claim that "musical instruments are from the demons and there is no other tradition." Music is not evil but it is a most powerful weapon to silence the mind so that we cannot make spiritual judgments. We have added additional notes at the end of this review.

"In English, unfortunately, the distinction is not sharp, and the word singing is frequently employed to refer to the sacred activity of chanting.

A Greek would never, never say tragoudo (I sing),
-----instead of psallo; the two terms have connotations and
-----associations which are worlds apart --

the first is related to the earthly realm,
----- the second to the heavenly." (Letter to James D. Bales of Harding University, September 22, 1959, from Constantine Cavarnos, of the Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies.)

CONEYBEARE AND HOWSON

"Ephesians 5:19 enjoins:

(1) Speaking TO ONE ANOTHER in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs;
----- (2) singing (adontes) and making melody (psallontes, psalming)
----- with your heart TO THE LORD.

One is done with voice and lips,
----- the other with the heart.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom;

teaching and admonishing one another

in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,

singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Col 3:16

The commanded act is not to SING but to teach or preach:

Didasko (g1321) did-as'-ko; a prol. (caus.) form of a prim. verb dao, (to learn); to teach (in the same broad application): - teach

 

To "get the drift" of the proposal from the young marrieds group you may just read the material in the colored boxes.

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2/25/01 (or 3/25/01 date unsure)

As Posted by Bobby M. Johnson

Transcribed by Bobby M. Johnson 5/30/01 thru 6/5/01 Madison member since 1985

Transcript of Homebuilders sunday school class. A recording of Tom

Haddon on how to transition the congregation to Saddleback and Holy

entertainment in Homebuilders Class.

 

It could be also be called "How to cook a Frog"

 

1. Never throw the frog into boiling water!

2. Always turn the heat up gradually.

3. Hold the frogs hand until the water reaches boiling point.

4. By the time the frog is cooked, he never knows he's been boiled.

Important Note: BMJ will show in parenthesis a brief phrase, words, or word to locate a particular paragraph or collection of messages from Tom's class. No attempt is made to interpret Tom's teachings and parables or what he means. Exact words are transcribed along with the spelling or misspelling to relate exactly how Tom pronounced the words. Please do not think BMJ to be illiterate or uneducated. Transcribing this tape was near impossible. Patience and Christian love is needed. You must read, read, read, -- read , and read again. Then when you are through reading you must read again what Tom says to understand. This will be very clear as you proceed.

"Out of the box" or not marked BMJ are comments by Kenneth Sublett.

Optional background to making objectionable words unobjectable.

The proposal is to turn church (synagogue or school) into a mass spectacle. The terms used are quite identical to neo-paganism or witchcraft.

To the minimally Biblically literate the notion of "holy entertainment" is as much an objection as the ancient co-partner of "holy entertainment" which was "holy sex." To the Christian mind one cannot "color" or "baptize" ancient paganism to make the prophesied "holy whore" be more attractive.

Aristotle, Poetics notes that "entertainment" MEANS diversion. Why else would one turn "synagogue" into "theater?"

"The fourth kind is the Simple. [We here exclude the purely spectacular element], exemplified by the Phorcides, the Prometheus, and scenes laid in Hades.

The poet should endeavor, if possible, to combine all poetic elements; or failing that, the greatest number and those the most important; the more so, in face of the caviling criticism of the day. For whereas there have hitherto been good poets, each in his own branch, the critics now expect one man to surpass all others in their several lines of excellence.

Note: The text is obscure, and our ignorance of the play or rhapsody adds to the darkness,

but the reference may be to the ruse, common in detective stories,

of misleading the audience by false clues in order to make the final revelation more effective.

The "navigating the winds of change" to destroy the church are defined by Hitler in Mein Kampf:

"Albert Speer recognized the compelling potency of mass spectacle in orchestrating the Nuremberg rallies for Hitler and the Nazi Party. Mass spectacles ranging from tedious mechanical parades

to enormous stadium and arena rallies

have become a perfected art form for totalitarian regimes.

"One thinks of the choreographed performances honoring "the great leader" not only from the Nazi era, but in later authoritarian and totalistic societies such as Stalinist Russia, China, Korea, or Albania.

"Regardless of the explicit ideology,

such mass spectacles inevitably carry an implicit message of suspension of individual consciousness,

subordination to "the greater,"

and induce a sense of being immersed - or swept along - in a cause, program, ideology or belief greater and more important than one's self.

One is humbled both literally and metaphorically before "the greater" - be it an ideology, god, movement, or all three. See Signs of a Cult.

Paul in 2 Thessalonians identified the man of sin in terms implicating Judas as well as Apollo or Abaddon or Apollyon in the book of Revelation. Apollo was the "Saddle Back Samael." among the Greeks. He established a Seeker Center at Delphi which included women prophesiers, instrumental music, a gymnasium, swimming pools, a theater and everthing the heart could lust after:

Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 2 Thess 2:3

Escapatao (g1818) ex-ap-at-ah'-o; from 1537 and 538; to seduce wholly: - beguile, deceive.

The man of sin is apoleia or Apollyon or Abbadon: See His Seeker Center and the music connection. He uses music and his preside-over "preachers with a tune" are women or the effeminate:

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth (dwells) in the temple (naos) of God, shewing himself that he is God. 2 Thess 2:4

The "liturgy area" is the holy place in cathedral architecture: musical worship teams are standing in the holy place claiming to be mediators or that their "awsome" power comes from GOD: the idolatry of talent.

It cannot be refuted: anyone who replaces Christ's Words with His words is EXALTING HIMSELF over Christ. This means that he claims to BE God:

Who exalteth himself Huperairomai (g5229) hoop-er-ah'ee-rom-ahee' mid. from 5228 and 142; to raise oneself over, i.e. (fig.) to become haughty: - exalt self, be exalted above measure.

Aristotle, Politics: "if music is to be employed for refined enjoyment and entertainment; why need people learn to perform themselves instead of enjoying music played by others? And we may consider the conception that we have about the gods: Zeus does not sing and harp to the poets himself. But professional musicians we speak of as vulgar people, and indeed we think it not manly to perform music, except when drunk or for fun."

Shewing himself: Apodeiknumi (g584) ap-od-ike'-noo-mee; from 575 and 1166; to show off, i.e. exhibit: fig. to demonstrate, i.e. accredit: - (ap) prove, set forth, shew.

That he/she is God:

"We are called to be kings and priests (I Peter 2:9). In this study I would like to focus especially on the priesthood and some of the functions which they were responsible for, as well as how these functions relate to dance particularly in regards to intercession Webster's defines a priest as,

"One authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religion;

especially as a mediatory agent between man and God." Click for more.

However, she/he is destroyed by the Word:

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 2 Thess 2: 8

Music replacing giving heed to God's word as "worship" in the Old Testament had two roles: first it was the cause of people hungering and thirsting for the Word of God. More importantly, musical worship was the dying song of a people doomed and beyond redemption:

Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs (MARKS) and lying wonders, 2 Thess 2: 9

Jesus identifed the "Devil" as a liar because "he speaks of his own." If he does not speak the Word of Christ it is because "there is no light within him."

And with all deceivableness (DIVERTING YOU) of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 2 Th. 2:10

Here is how he DIVERTED with theatrical performance:

Apate (g539) ap-at'-ay; from 538; delusion: - deceit (- full, -fulness), deceivableness (-ving).

He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. Mt.13:22

RICHES: Ploutos (g4149) ploo'-tos; from the base of 4130; wealth (as fulness), i.e. (lit.) money, possessions, or (fig.) abundance, richness, (spec.) valuable bestowment: - riche

And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting (the play at Mount Sinai sport or entertain) themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 2 Pe.2:13

"The triumphal hymn of Moses had unquestionably a religious character about it; but the employment of music in religious services, though idolatrous, is more distinctly marked in the festivities which attended the erection of the golden calf." (Smith's Bible Dictionary, Music, p. 589). See Are Human Hymns Idols?

Catholic Encyclopedia on Candles:

"We must not forget that most of these adjuncts to worship, like music, lights, perfumes, ablutions, floral decorations, canopies, fans, screens, bells, vestments, etc. were not identified with any idolatrous cult in particular; they were common to almost all cults.

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion (the wandering STARS of Enoch), that they should believe a lie: 2 Thess 2:11

That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 2 Thess 2:12

We do not pass judgment but God is passing Judgment by the Words which Jesus speaks: the same shall judge him in the last days.

You are watching the strong delusion before your eyes, and like the serpent who hypnotizes, you will not and cannot take your eyes off the enchanter to whom you have sold out.

That is why "rising up to play" at Mount Sinai caused God to turn Israel over "to worship the starry host." This worship was the musical worship of Egypt. It was in the form of a RELIGIOUS DRAMA as entertainment. Drama experts note that "drama works because we know that it isn't true." Therefore, the only motive for entertainment would be to replace the Truth of Christ for that which is not true: the worship of the starry host.

We all wish that we had a shortcut to growing instant watermelons. However, we should not ridicule God because when we plant and water the seed, God gives us FREE WATERMELONS. Any attempt to "grow a church" through human ordinances is doomed because it denies the power and timing and method of God. Paul as an evangelist had the primary role of teaching. Then, with no pride in his soul, he could go on and let others water (baptize) and turning the fruit growing over to God.

Therefore, as we review the class text in the tables, we will look at some Biblical and historical evidence to show that while the INSTANT WATER MELON GROWERS may be sincere, they implicate themselves in what very well may be unfair judgment of their nature and motives by the more spiritually mature.

"The notion of music as a tool or technology with a clearly defined purpose is very prevalent in the East. In the West that view is held by some,

but others believe that music is entertainment or art and nothing more.

Those who take the latter view tend to believe that music is the product of a individual, while those who take the the former usually believe that music is the product of a group of people, or of the gods, acting through people.

"In many religious contexts, music is less an expressive 'art' than a technology applied to produce practical results,

from the storage and retrieval of information contained in religious narratives and teachings memorized in song

to the attraction of animals in hunting, increase of harvests, curing of diseases, communication with the divine, supplication, and control of the various levels of psychocosmic experience. While aesthetic beauty may or may not be integral to such technologies,

individual self-expression plays little part in them and may be detrimental to their intended results (Ellingson 164).

See how the performing arts in ancient religions often enrages the masculine --- Second Part.

To Paul, the "many" are always wrong. Therefore, that is why Paul was inspired to tell us how to behave in church and how not to behave. The church is the truth dispenser of God and not the Holy Wineskin Tavern:

But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. 1 tim 3:15

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. 1 tim 3:16

NOW the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 1 Ti. 4:1

Speaking lies in hypocrisy (actors); having their conscience seared with a hot iron; 1 tim 4:2

> Jude quotes the Book of Enoch who connects "God coming with ten thousand of His saints to execute judgment." The dause of the unforgivable sin was to keep the Word of God out of the hands of people. That is, their task was to "Divert people's attention."

> The "way" they diverted people's attention was that Satan taught Genun (Jubal) how to organize mixed-sex choirs, use instrumental music and the dressed-up, ornamented women to seduce people. The Lucifer figure was bisexual but predominately female. He/She is Sophia-Zoe in the ancient traditions. Sophia is identified as the "serpent" the giver of all wisdom and Zoe is called the "BEAST" and she forced brother Logos (Jesus) and the lesser jehovah into musical worship teams to worship HER. Musical worship IS GODDESS WORSHIP.

> The natural world obeyed God's will but only men refused to have the knowledge of God in their minds.

> Those who were lost beyond redemption used "Unholy entertainment" or the lust of the eyes, flesh and ears to triumph over God by triumphing over His Word.

Giving attendance or giving heed to the Words of Christ is the truest form of worship by a direct command of Christ. Only by listening to the Word (Spirit) of Christ can we keep ourselves protected from the "fables" of the musical composers:

Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. Tit.1:14

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 2 Cor 4:16

Now, no disciple of Christ ever enjoyed "holy entertainment" but gave their lives which always results in being "despised and rejected of men."]

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 2 Cor 4:17

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.

For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Co.4:18

So, Paul was not speaking of deliberately deceiving people. Rather, he identified anything related to the human body or the works or talents of human hands as the seen. By definition if we can see it it is not the spiritual kingdom of God which is "within you." The unseen is not the slight of hand tricks of men but the heavenly realm where we have our inheritance laid up and where we meet God as we come boldly before the throne of Grace.

Any "musical" Levite (never truly existed) who tried to escort me, the priest, into the throne room with "holy entertainment" would be run through with a sword. And we fear that those promoting holy entertainment in the presence of a Holy God may have been terminally wounded by the Sword of the Spirit.

Tom Haddon: 2. (Leadership) We spoke about leadership. I'm not going to say any more about leadership except to say there are principles I'm talking about. They apply in our family, our business, and in our church. There are people who have to be led and our leaders have to know where we're goin'-. (BMJ's Note: Tom describes an airplane trip to Columbus. A couple of older ladies talk about Cincinnati. Tom is worried that he has gotten on a plane to Cincinnati instead of Columbus.- short version.) You know the most unsettling times in any situation in life is when you think you are on a road one place and all of a sudden things happen around you, and you may not understand them all and you could be totally wrong, but all of a sudden you think you are on a train headed one place and, but you think the train is going somewhere else. That's all I'm going to say about leadership. 3. (Leadership - phase 2) Leaders in the world know how to direct a train. They know how to get all the people on board. When I say all, realize that there may be people who get off because they don't want to go to Cincinnati. And we have to accept that. There may be people who get off because they just want to go to Columbus and they don't want to go over here. And we accept that.

Because "church" is also "synagogue" its primary funciton is defined by Paul to Timothy: "Give yourself to the public reading of the Word, to doctrine and to exhortation." The "church" has no other agenda and therefore does not need a CONDUCTOR TO TAKE YOU WHERE YOU HAVE NOT DARED TO GO BEFORE. Christ died to build the train and the tracks. If the conductor wants to take it for a seeker trip out through the sands then the conductor does not have Christ's authority.

The way to get everyone "on board" is to follow the plan of Christ. We noted that Paul told the musical, vegetarian Orphics and the musical, meat-eating, wine-drinking background Dionysics that they could be united only by leaving their culture out of the "synagogue" process and just teach the Word as Christ inspired it. Isaiah 5 and Amos 5 speak of musical festivals which replaced the Word of God. The result was that people hungered and thirsted for the Word but went into captivity because the "elders" were off feeding themselves:

And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits (the gong and cymbal image of 1 Cor 13:1), and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? Isa 8:19

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Isa 8:20

And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. Isa 8:21

But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him. Jn.11:10

Entertainment as "worship" was always unholy entertainment. The "musical" worship condemned by Amos was a "festival with and for dead ancestors" or demons.

Tom Haddon: But we do whatever we can in love to get everybody on board and that takes time, and it takes patience, and it takes people who are being led by people who say, look we may have to divert a little bit here. We may have to fly around the storm. We may have to scoot over because we don't want to hit headlong into an iceberg, but our basic direction is unchanged, and everybody knows where we are going. That's all I'm going to say about leadership. Umm --- let me say when I say that too, I think we have some wonderful leaders here. I really do.

The "tracks" of Christ and Paul are that we are to be a synagogue or school and not a pagan worship center which must DIVERT to pick up the more modern tribe of SEEKERS.

When believers are baptized, Jesus puts them all on board the Train already on track with Him as the One and Only Conductor. If you change the "train" He originally put us on then you are not the conductor on the Christian Train. How can anyone pretend to be a "christ" for their Church with a new mandate so powerful that you must SUBMIT as we SOW YOU WITH DISCORD?

Quick success is tempting but:

Neo-paganism says: "Try this: When the cue is given, have your chant facilitators step three paces towards the center, turn around with their arms held high, and gradually lover their arms as they lower and slow their voices (and the musicians lower and slow their music). The presiding clergyperson can be doing the same gesture near the main altar, slowly rotating in her/his place. The chant will end with everyone slowly whispering it, then stopping simultaneously. The chant facilitators can then return to their previous positions, and the energies in the grove will be at a strong and steady peak. (This technique will work even better if it's been used a few times earlier in the rite, or at previous ceremonies.) [This is reaching the Climax with God]

"It's important to remember that the primary purpose of all these Praise Offerings is to raise as much psychic/magical/spiritual power as possible, all of it focussed around the deities of the occasion -- not to boost the egos of the performers (that can be a secondary or tertiary purpose).

By the time the last Praise Offering is done, the grove should be charged up with as much energy as it is capable of generating.

"Praise" as a "public ritual" was always to allow those assuming "leadership" to help give the gods power so that they would not fail to deliver the goods. All praise is an attempt to "appease the evil gods, sexually serve the good gods and empower the weak gods." "Praise rituals" therefore repudiate the finished work of Christ and are in reality a wailing cry of lostness echoing down through the corridors of time from the first fall. Click for collected notes.

Hell itself, Topheth, is named after the "King's music grove" where they degenerated into burning babies to the beat of loud musid so that they could get a better message than the one God had delivered to them.

God personally is behind "musical worship" as He hustles the Egyptians, Assyrians (Babylonians) and Jews into captivity and death: they are "musicially triumphed over" just as the Jews led by Judas tried to musically triumph over Jesus.

The more "entertaining" the music sounds as it grinds the lust of the eyes, flesh and ears into a fine powder (melody or harmony) the more certain that you are on the Train To Captivity because you have enjoyed the entertainment as proof of your lack for the love of the Word of Christ. And if the Bible examples are any indication you ain't gonna get off this train!

Tom Haddon: 4. (No surprises, a morning shower and a surprise birthday party, & surprises in worship.) No surprises. That was one of the things I had. No surprises. Sometimes you say you want us, you know, well you know when, let's just surprise people when you get on an airplane an, an they think they are goin' to Columbus an, but let's just send them to Cincinnati. You don't want to be surprised. A lot of us know what it's like to be surprised, don't we? Surprises --- you know how would you like a surprise shower --- a surprise birthday party when you stepped out of the shower one morning? Sometimes that's what surprises in worship are like. You just feel violated all of a sudden you know. You just uh --- uh. We don't want surprises.

So what WE must do is just let them think that they are going to Columbus but WE will send them to Cincinatii. Now, that will be acceptable if we just teach, teach, teach to change THEIR destination to YOUR destination. Divert means deceive.

So, dodge and weave: don't drive them over the edge or brink of a psychic breakdown. Teach, teach, teach so that THEY believe that THEY are doing the thinking.

Tom Haddon: . (Teach, teach, teach, teach, teach, teach, teach, teach ----.) We want to teach about where we are going. We want to lead people. I was hopin' an prayin' I could say this in a way that didn't turn people off. And that uh, that uh, that was humorous and still got a point across. We need to teach, teach, teach, teach, teach, teach, teach, and then when we are through teaching, we need to teach some more. And many times it can't just come from our pulpit. And we're in a precarious situation right here because we have no fulltime pulpit minister and that means we have to become teachers ourselves. And when we see people hurting we need to be about the business of healing those hurts, and helping those hurts.

These "hurts" have been caused by the "Holy Entertainment" crowd. Without a preacher this means that we are gonna have to help the hurts. No. We cannot take the knife out of their back: we have to teach, teach, teach until they don't hurt anymore.

Ministers serve but if a facility is built on a preacher and its financing is predicated upon attracting people through "holy entertainment" then you are in the same position as the Jews and God may just turn the temple over to worship the idols. Entertainment and the Gymnasium was the first sign of the Abomination of Desolation:

From them came forth a sinful root, Antiochus Epiphanes, son of Antiochus the king; he had been a hostage in Rome. He began to reign in the one hundred and thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks. 1 Macc 1:10

In those days lawless men came forth from Israel, and misled many, saying,

"Let us go and make a covenant with the Gentiles round about us, for since we separated from them many evils have come upon us." 1 Macc 1: 11

This proposal pleased them, 1 Macc 1: 12

and some of the people eagerly went to the king. He authorized them to observe the ordinances of the Gentiles. 1 Macc 1: 13

So they built a gymnasium in Jerusalem, according to Gentile custom, 1 Macc 1: 14

Athenian There is a tradition or story, which has somehow crept about the world,

that Dionysus was robbed of his wits by his stepmother Hera,

and that out of revenge he inspires Bacchic furies and dancing madnesses in others;

for which reason he gave men wine.

Such traditions concerning the gods I leave to those who think that they may be safely uttered; I only know that no animal at birth is mature or perfect in intelligence; and in the intermediate period,

in which he has not yet acquired his own proper sense, he rages and roars without rhyme or reason;

and when he has once got on his legs he jumps about without rhyme or reason; and this, as you will remember,

has been already said by us to be the origin of music and gymnastic.

It is important that we teach the "word as it has been taught" because the needs for the property can divert you into the feeling of panic:

Arnobius writing (A.D. 297-303) Ridicules instrumental music in worship notes.

Nay, rather, to speak out more truly, the augurs, the dream interpreters, the soothsayers, the prophets, and the priestlings, ever vain, have devised these fables; for they,

fearing that their own arts be brought to nought, and that they may extort but scanty contributions from the devotees, now few and infrequent,

whenever they have found you to be willing that their craft should come into disrepute, cry aloud,

the Gods are neglected, and

in the temples there is now a very thin attendance. For ceremonies are exposed to derision,

and the time-honoured rites of institutions once sacred

have sunk before the superstitions of new religions.

And men--a senseless race--being unable, from their inborn blindness, to see even that which is placed in open light,

dare to assert in their frenzy

what you in your sane mind do not blush to believe. (Arnobius Against the Heathen, Ante-Nicene Fathers, VI, p. 418).

The "Builders (old folk) believed in Black and White. And the Bible has some very black and white ideas. For instance, neither in black, white or color is music every an operative word for either Jewish or Christian worship. Worship has been literally bowing or falling on your face but in a spiritual sense it is bowing to the Will of God. Giving heed to God's word was the meaning of both the synagogue and early churches. People fell on their faces when the instrumental sounders made a great crashing sound but this was not music. And if we restore it all over again we repeat the effort of the Jews to defeat Jesus with music and 'holy entertainment' with Him as the victim. This is how Anti-Christ would do it.

Tom Haddon: 6. (Conflict, painting in black and white, now color is out, the struggle, and the clash.) And the conflict comes in there because what's the best way to me is not the necessarily the best way to others. And I have people who come in you know and they say can't you just paint this in black and white? Can't you do that? You know it's been black and white for years. It's been --- you know this, this is the way it is, --- black and white. And, and there's a part of me that wants to rise up and say, you know we can paint it in black and white, yes -- but have you ever seen color? Do you know color is out? You know the large screen tv's are out. You want to say I can paint it in black and white but there's so much more. We have a group of people who go to your leaders and say you know black and white is what we have had forever. Black and white is, black and white is what I grew up with. And there comes the struggle. The issue of a generation raised with color and [Meaning: There is NO absolute truth.] a generation raised to believe that black and white is reverent and black and white is holy. [There is absolute truth.] And you have a clash. You have a clash with the up and coming [Children piping.] with what I call their sponsors. [Their Parents.] And many times these sponsors want to come in and say you can paint in black and white because, you know what, we paid for the brushes. And we paid for the canvas. If you're gonna paint, please paint like this. And you know in many ways they are right. And in many ways they are not right