Quail Springs Church of Christ

Mark Henderson, Quail Springs Church of Christ: proof-texting to justify instrumental music.  You will note the ANTI-instrument label for those who do not worship with instruments but continue to teach their members that instruments in the face of a holy God is wrong.   Underlined blue text is clickable to open another paper leaving this one in place. Kenneth Sublett. for questions or comments.

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

Terry Rush missed all of the MARKS or signs created by adding instruments.

We have to worry about people willing to build huge walls to excommunicate the spiritual owners in order to break down the walls to those who use "machines for doing hard work, mostly in making war and creating the shock and awe" of spectacle religion.
Patrick Mead at Rochester: review of his sermons proving that God commands instrumental music and LOVES LOUD NOISE. Part one. Pretty much follows the NACC handout working for "unity."  Debate or Dialog by clicking here at bottom of the thread.
Review Two will look at the meaning at New Testament examples Mark denies exists.
Review Three Mark says that God did not SET ASIDE instrumental music which He universally repudiated.

The common understanding of all decent societies is also defined by a proper understanding of the Romans 14-15 conflict between the marketplace (meats) and the assembly where self-pleasure includes the use of all of the performing or hypocritic arts.

Alawys denounced: I move, in the next place, that the flute-girl, who has just made her appearance,
be told to go away and play to herself, or, if she likes, to the women who are within.

Aulêtrida. It was the fashion at convivia to provide pipers, dancers, jesters,
        jugglers et hoc genus omne to amuse the guests.
Aul-êtris A.flute- , [Jesus cast out the musical minstrels LIKE DUNG using the same "musical" term defining to play the flute, steal other people's inheritance, pollute, prostitute and as "Lucifer was cast as profane" out of heaven.]

Alawys approved: To-day let us have conversation instead; and, if you will allow me, I will tell you what sort of conversation. 
Plato Protagoras explains why Jesus cast out the musical minstrels like dung and consigned the pipers, singers and dancers to the marketplace along with the sellers of bodies and radishes:

Alawys denounced: [347c] For it seems to me that arguing about poetry is comparable to the wine-parties of common market-folk. These people, owing to their inability to carry on a familiar conversation over their wine by means of their own voices and discussions--such is their lack of education--put a premium on flute-girls by hiring the extraneous voice of the flute at a high price, and carry on their intercourse by means of its utterance.

Jesus consigned the pipers, singers and dancers to the marketplace.
James A. Towle, Commentary on Plato: Protagoras
Sumposiois: [NEAR WINE] this custom is followed in Xen. Symp. 2. 1 erchetai tis autois epi kômon (revel) Surakosios anthrôpos, echôn te aulêtrida agathên kai orchêstrida (dancing-girl) tôn ta thaumata dunamenôn poiein kai paida panu ge hôraion kai panu kalôs kitharizonta kai orchoumenon. These show their skill during the whole banquet. Plato, however, has the same view as the one here, when he says Symp. 176 e eisêgoumai tên men arti eiselthousan aulêtrida chairein ean, aulousan heautêi, ê an boulêtai tais gunaixi tais endon, hêmas de dia logôn allêlois suneinai to têmeron
Alawys approved: But where the party consists of thorough gentlemen who have had a proper education, you will see neither flute-girls nor dancing-girls nor harp-girls, but only the company contenting themselves with their own conversation, and none of these fooleries and frolics--each speaking and listening decently in his turn.
Suneimi: To be joined with, Intercourse is II. to have intercourse with a person, live with hêdonê, desires after pleasure, pleasant lusts, voluptuosus,
Me thinks the Quail has been Cuckold: "Cuckold" is derived from the Old French for the Cuckoo bird, "Cocu" with the pejorative suffix -ald. The earliest written use of the Middle English derivation, “cokewold” occurs in 1250. The females of certain varieties of Cuckoo lay their eggs in other bird’s nests, freeing themselves from the need to nurture the eggs to hatching.
Cuckolds are also sometimes portrayed as having horns (which look like devil horns), but this is actually a crescent moon set behind the head. Since the moon waxes and wanes, it was held as a symbol of the changeability of love, and especially the fickleness of women, so a cuckold had the moon hanging over his head.
In part three, refuting each and every one of Mark's teachings, we have posted more of the universal undestanding in all societies that:

GOOD: Those who were educated and decent "cast out" the musicians so that dialog was possible.
               That is what Paul commanded. [Romans 15]

EVIL: Those who were ignorant or of the lower classes always sought musicians because they were unable to hold a conversation. [Romans 14] Jesus consigned the "pipers, singers and dancers" to the Agora or marketplace.

Jesus silenced the laded burden which means a repeating type song in both Hebrew and Greek. The SABBATH or REST in the church in the wilderness outlawed vocal and instrumental rejoicing and the Greek word PAUO demands that all musical or theatrical performance be STOPPED.

That is why all of the very small band of men with a hidden agenda twist every Biblical and historical mention of a "music" or instrument word.  This is the mark of being totally ignorant of the context and story line of Israel's fall from grace. In one sense they fulfill the prophecy of working "supernatural powers" in order to deceive thousands of church members. Paul warned that they would deceive the very ELECT if possible. That means that those so deceived are NOT part of the ELECT meaning called OUT of the World they want to reimpose.

Based on the NACC writers "proof texts" while ignoring the context and story line, they now wax quite violent in denying that anyone has the right to continue to teach that it is wrong to use musical instruments.  
SUMMARY: All lusts to impose the "works of human hands" in the ekklesia or school of the Bible of Christianity is a tribalistic impulse which is patterned after Israel's rescue by grace from Egypt.  They thanked God by indulging in musical idolatry.  They sang God's praise but He sent leanness into their hearts. He turned them over to worrship the starry host which is now the patternism many want imposed upon the "faithful majority."

Stephen's confirmation: As a result of warning about the musical idolatry, Stephen upset the Temple Jews by informing them that their sacrificial system was imposed and not a blessing: God had abandoned them to worship the starry host. Stephen binds together the Musical Idolatry at Mount Sinai and the Book of Amos.

Because the leadership at Mount Sinai was unredeemed pagans, God separated them to the sacrificial system. At the same time He ordained the Qahal, synagogue or "church in the wilderness." This included resting, reading and rehearsing the Word of God--a PATTERN which changed little in their entire history. The righteous "congregation" was quarantined from the pagan animal slaughter with loud noise--never called music.  The Law was to protect the righteous weak "congregation" from the always parasitic practices of religionists pretenders to power.

The Spirit OF Christ through the prophets made it clear that no righteous preacher could be uninformed that what they want to impose was abandonment to their old religion.
I have put this summary in a box to prove that the Sacrificial System was added BECAUSE of musical idolatry.  Furthermore, no "citizen" could even come near the sacrifices.  After the temple was built they were put outside of the city gates when they heard the noise which is never called music. Any competent Bible scholar would know that the Bible itself radically condemns instruments. One can only conclude that instruments are a MARK or SIGN that Satan has invaded a church.

If all known evidence proves that the sacrificial system was a curse added because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai and the demand for a national or goyim ruler, then Mark Henderson is trying to drag you back to the far side of the cross.

Let it be noted that there is no "music" commanded by God in any Law or Covenant.  Because the sacrificial system was imposed the loud NOISE was never called music and was part of that curse.
BUILDING THE FOUNDATION: The people were Quarantined from Sacrificial System added as part of the worship of the starry host to which God had abandoned the nation.
  1. As a Covenant of Grace God gave The Book of the Covenant to govern the nation.
  2. Israel fell fatally from Grace because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai.
  3. God turned them over to worship the starry host (Acts 7 and a dozen more passages)
  4. God burdened them with The Book of The Law and the Levites to "bear the burdens of sin."
  5. The Abrahamic Covenant was lost and the First Born sons replaced.
  6. No one not of Levi and not specificially ordained could COME NEAR the Tabernacle without sinning.
Because the false teachers REST on the curse of the Law and the Monarchy, the elders, preachers and artistic performers would die if they ventured in or near the area of animal slaughter.

Furthermore, no Levite, used as Warrior Noise makers and later under the king and commanders of the army--could come near the holy places of the sanctury or they would be executed. The patternism is that if a musician enters into the body of Christ as fulfilment of the Holy Place he / she / it is worthy of death.

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

H8334 sharath shaw-rath' A primitive root; to attend as a menial or worshipper; figuratively to contribute to:--minister (unto), (do) serve (-ant, -ice, -itor), wait on.

The "service" is from Abad or Abadown meaning "hard bondage." It is the same Apollo or Abaddon John used in Revelation 17-18. Abbadon - The book of Revelations identifies him as the chief demon of locusts.

Num 18:3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle:
        only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar,
        that neither they, nor ye also, die.

Nadab and Abihu violates several commandments.

All of the non-Levites were called STRANGERS: if you were not of the tribe of Levi with the assignment to serve you could not even minister to the priests outside of the Temple-proper.  Therefore, no member of the "church" could come near the Tabernacle and none of the "ministers" could ENTER it.

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

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

The sacrificial system was NEVER the spiritual worship but part of the WRATH DISPELLING curse imposed because of Musical idolatry.

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

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

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

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

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

That also removes any modern cleric from imposing the tithe.

H5656 ‛abodah ‛abodoh ab-o-daw', ab-o-daw' From H5647 ; work of any kind:--act, bondage, + bondservant, effect, labour, ministering (-try), 
H5647 ‛abad aw-bad' keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute

Gal. 4:24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants;
        the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Gal. 4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia,
        and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
Rev. 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Gal. 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Some cuckoo has laid its egg in the Quail's nest: the metaphor is that the cucko hatches, kicks out the tiny Quail and mother keeps feeing the parasite until it is twice her size. Since the loud noise was under the king and commanders of the army someone has been taken captive.
"Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die. Numbers 18:22

THE MEANING OF PARASITES

Because God had abandoned Israel to "worship the starry hosts" we understand that the Levites became a burden and not a blessing to the nation. The word "parasite" derives from the sacrificial servants.  Why dispute that since God turned them over to worship the starry host instead of the God of Hosts:
Parasītus (parasitos, “table companion”). A word which among the Greeks denoted originally the priest's assistant, who, like the priest, received his support from the offerings made to the temple, in return for certain services. These services included the collection and care of supplies of corn due to the temple, assistance at certain sacrifices, and the preparation of the banquets connected with [p. 1175] certain festivals. The assistants of civil officials, who were maintained at the expense of the State, were also called parasites in many places. The word received another meaning in the Middle and New Greek comedy, where it means the hanger on, who plays the flatterer and buffoon, with a view to getting invited to dinner. The parasite was transferred as a standing character to the Roman imitations of Greek comedy, and figures largely in the plays of Plautus. Good examples of the stage parasite will be found in his Captivi Menaechm iPhormio of Terence. See Know, Die Parasiten bei den Griechen and in the (1876).  

Parasit-os 

A.one who eats at the table of another, and repays him with flattery and buffoonery, parasite, Epich.36, Arar.16, etc.; name of plays by Antiph., Alex., and Diph.; peri Parasitou, title of work by Luc.: c. gen., kenês p. trapezêsAP11.346 (Autom.) : metaph., ichthusên p. (v. opson) Luc.Lex.6.  Parasitus Phoebi, a player

II. of priests who had their meals at the public expense, Clitodem.11, Polem.Hist.78  
2. one who dines with a superior officer, Arist.Fr.551.

Ezek 22:27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves [YELLOW] ravening the prey,  o shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
Zeph. 3:3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.  

Epictetus, Works XLIII.

XLII. Instead of herds of oxen, endeavor to assemble flocks of friends about your house.

As a wolf resembles a dog, so much does a flatterer, an adulterer, a parasite, resemble a friend. Take heed, therefore, that instead of guardian dogs, you do not inadvertently admit ravening wolves.

[All musicians were also called PARASITES and not allowed to feed on polite society]

The Deipnosophists of Athenaeus of Naucratis Book XIII: Concerning Women

"Hear, ye Styacs, vendors of twaddle, hypocritical mouthers of words who alone by yourselves gobble up everything on the platters before a wise man can get a share, and then are caught doing the very opposite of what you solemnly chant;" oglers of boys you are, and in that alone emulating the founder of your philosophy, Zeno the Phoenician, who never resorted to a woman, but always to boy-favourites.

Wolves taking over the flock is a parable for homosexuals. Paul warned NOT to let the dogs into the worship.

Bdellolarunx, leech-throat, name for a greedy parasite

Mark 13:14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains: 

Bdelugma (g946) bdel'-oog-mah; from 948; a detestation, i.e. (spec.) idolatry: - abomination.

And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lambs book of life. Rev 21:27 

See 2 Maccabees to understand the males made into prostitutes for the temple.

1 Macc 1: 47 - to build altars and sacred precincts and shrines for idols (Dionysus), to sacrifice swine and unclean animals,

48 - and to leave their sons uncircumcised. They were to make themselves abominable by everything unclean and profane,

54 - Now on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in the one hundred and forty-fifth year,

they erected a desolating sacrilege upon the altar of burnt offering.
They also built altars in the surrounding cities of Judah,

Notice in verse 59 that this desolating sacrilege could be another altar placed upon the regular altar for burnt offerings.

Of Dancing by the prophets of Jezebel:

"It was probably usual to welcome a king or general with music and dancing...The distinctly religious dance is more frequently mentioned. The clear instances of it in the Bible are the dance of the women of Israel at the Red Sea, headed by Miriam with her tambourine (Exodus 15:20); the dance of the Israelites round the golden calf (Exodus 32:19); the dance of the maidens of Shiloah at the annual feast (Judges 21:19 ff);

the leaping or limping of the prophets of Baal round their altar on Carmel (1 Kings 18:26); and the dancing of David in front of the ark (2 Samuel 6:14-16) (Int. Std. Bible Ency., p. 1169-70)
Bdelug-mos A.abomination, LXX 1 Ki.25.31, Na.3.6.

Nahum 3:[4]WEB 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.

Kashaph (h3784) kaw-shaf'; a prim. root; prop. to whisper a spell, i. e. to inchant or practise magic: - sorcerer, (use) witch (-craft). 

The Latin maleficia is maleficium 1. Fraud, deception, adulteration 4 A hired mourner: The "præficæ" were the women who chanted the "nænia" .

Praeficae Women who were hired to act as mourners at Roman funerals (Plaut. Truc.ii. 6 Truc., 14). They went before the corpse, with their heads bared, their locks disheveled, uttering cries of lamentation and chanting dirges (neniae)

Nahum 3:5 Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame

Nahum 3:[6]WEB I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.

Nahum 3:[6]WEB et proiciam super te abominationes et contumeliis te adficiam et ponam te in exemplum

Heb 10:33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.

G2301 theatrizo theh-at-rid'-zo From G2302 ; to expose as a spectacle:--make a gazing stock. 

Bdeluktos (g947) bdel-ook-tos'; from 948; detestable, i.e. (spec.) idolatrous: - abominable.

They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. Tit.1:16

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Re.21:8

Rev. 18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;

Rev. 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
The sacrificial system was imposed on the Levites as a curse or burden.
Num 18:23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation,
        and they shall bear their iniquity:
        it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations,
        that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
That this was a curse:

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

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

 
For I spake NOT unto your fathers, nor commanded them I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Amos 5:21
        in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
        concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: Jeremiah 7:22		 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. Amos 5:22
     Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs;
     for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. Amos 5:23
BUT this thing commanded I them, saying,
       Obey my voice, and I will be your God,
                 and ye shall be my people:
       and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you,
                 that it may be well unto you. Jeremiah 7:23 		 BUT let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream Amos 5:24

Amos 5:25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

BUT they HEARKENED NOT, nor inclined their ear,
        but walked in the counsels
        and in the imagination of their evil heart,
        and went backward, and not forward. Jeremiah 7:24

Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day,
        I have even sent unto you all MY servants the PROPHETS, daily rising up early and sending them: Jeremiah 7:25

Yet they HEARKENED NOT unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. Jeremiah 7:26

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 7:27

 Amos 5:26 BUT ye have borne the tabernacle of your and Moloch and Chiun [#666] your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

They burned infants to the beat of instruments in 2 Chron 28 just before the PURGE and EXORCISM and in chapter 30 just AFTER Hezekiah's ceremony SOLELY to get the priests to return to Jerusalem to help defend it.

Amos 5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity
beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.

This was the sentence conditionally imposed because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai.  Canaan as the promised land became the Killing Fields as God let the kings lead them into captivity and death.


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

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

NEHEMIAH IDENTIFYING THE PARASITES

The False preachers also missed that the Spirit OF Christ spoke ONLY through the prophets: it is a lie that the "holy spirit" guided the elders and preachers to lie about all of the Bible. The prophets thought that the kings, our princes, our priests, and  our fathers were lawless parasites. 

So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would. Neh 9:24

And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance:
so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee,
          and cast thy law behind their backs,
          and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee,
          and they wrought great provocations. Neh 9:26

Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them. Neh 9:34

For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works. Neh 9:35

Behold, we are servants this day, [and so are you]
        and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof,
        behold, we are servants in it: Neh 9:36

And it yieldeth 
        much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us 
        because of our sins: 
        also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle,
        at their pleasure, 
        and we are in great distress. Neh 9:37

        They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: 
        they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: 
        and they shall be ashamed of your revenues 
        because of the fierce anger of the Lord. Je.12:13

That is THE meaning of having a Senior Pastor set over you with no Biblical nor common sensical justification.

Justin Martyr b 110

Chapter XXII.-So Also Were Sacrifices and Oblations.

"And that you may learn that it was for the sins of your own nation,
        and for their idolatries and
        not because there was any necessity for such sacrifices ,
         that they were likewise enjoined, listen to the manner in which He speaks of these by Amos, one of the twelve, saying:

`Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is this day of the Lord for you?

It is darkness and not light, as when a man flees from the face of a lion, and a bear meets him; and he goes into his house, and leans his hands against the wall, and the serpent [devil] bites [stings with tithes] him. Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness and not light, even very dark, and no brightness in it? I have hated, I have despised your feast-days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies:

wherefore, though ye offer Me your burnt-offerings and sacrifices, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your presence.

Take thou away from Me the multitude of thy songs and psalms; I will not hear thine instruments.

BUT, let judgment be rolled down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent.

"The pastor is not a necessity. He is a FUNGUS GROWTH upon the church, the body of Christians, DWARFING its growth, PREVENTING its development of its members; and until the church GETS RID of him it will NEVER prosper as it should. In the Bible we can find all the necessities.

"I can testify from my own observation that a good eldership will lose its efficiency, and its members become both UNABLE and UNWILLING to do the work of elders, in a very few years after the employment of a pastor. And if under the pastor system a good eldership has ever developed, I have never seen or heard of the case. I don't believe that has or ever will be done." --James A. Harding, Gospel Advocate, May 20, 1885

Balatro

A professional jester, buffoon, or parasite. In spite of the difference of quantity, balatro is probably connected with balare (to bleat like a sheep) and hence, to speak foolishly. It is donbtless also akin to blatero, a chatterer (Gell.i. 15). Balatrones were paid for their jests, and the tables of the wealthy were generally open to them for the sake of the amusement they afforded. See Scurra; Parasitus.

Scurra

I. Orig., an elegant, town-bred man; a fine gentleman, gallant, dandy
1. A city buffoon, droll, jester (usually in the suite of wealthy persons, and accordingly a kind of parasite; -Of the clown in a pantomime,  rhetores scurra. rhe-tor rhetorician, speechifier, 

malako-kolax voluptuous parasite, Clearch.26

Malakos (g3120) mal-ak-os'; of uncert. affin.; soft, i.e. fine (clothing); fig. a catamite: - effeminate, soft.

But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings courts. Lu.7:25

And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like? Luke 7:31

They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept. Luke 7:32

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 1Co.6:9

Abusers are:

Arsenokoites (g733) ar-sen-ok-oy'-tace; from 730 and 2845; a sodomite: - abuser of (that defile) self with mankind.

For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; 1Ti.1:10

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

Certainly less than one tenth of the "profit of food from free farms" was used by the tribe of Levi to carry out the "Worship of the Starry Host" at the Tabernacle.  I suppose someone just missed "they have no inheritance."

Chalal [h2490] to wound, to dissolve; fig. to profane (a person, place or thing),  denom. (from 2485) to play (the flute): defile, gather the grape thereof, take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute,

There will be hostility between the Civil-Priestly parasitic class and the prophets directed by the Spirit OF Christ to rebuke them specificially associating MUSIC with telling God to shut His Mouth.  The fatal fall was in building a HOUSE which fulfilled the destruction of the nation

God warned that with the kings and temples the people would be fleeced of their tithes.
  • God promised David a TENT
  • But, Solomon built Him a House
  • But, God cannot be worshipped in "houses" or by the works of human hands. A musical instrument is defined as a machine for doing hard work primarily in producing panic in warfare the the same SHOCK to fleece religious or superstitious people. A musical instrument and a weapon are defined by the same word.
When you see the musical-clergy classes sitting in the Holy Place (typical of the Church) you will know that this is the Abomination of Desolation.  Both the "priests" and "musicians" intrude into the Most Holy Place for which both would have been executed in the temple PATTERNISM used by false teachers.

There is no "proof" Mark Henderson will offer which does not intend to impose this prophesied Abomination of Desolation which in the first instance in Jerusalem let pigs, singers, prostitutes and sodomites into the Holy Place (church) and Most Holy Place--our Spirit where God meets us one at a time in holy reverence and godly fear.

You can read the new PATTERNISM defined in the Intertestament Period.
This heresy of trying to JUSTIFY instruments when they are the universal MARK of shutting God's mouth began in 1878 when the Disciples recognized the discord they had created but still planning to "take Tennessee for the Society and Organ party within 5 years." Their use of PSALLO found them repudiated by the scholars.  Just about one century later the Stone-Campbell Movement--having sected out of the Disciples--sought to take captive the non-instrumental churches. 

They could have seen that Paul put the "melody" in the place of the human spirit which is the only place God seeks our worship.  Further, the parallel word in Colossians 3 is GRACE.  We might assume that the word psallo never belonged in Ephesians 5 because it is never used to mean melody and Paul guided by the Spirit OF Christ had words which DID include the instrument:
Meloid-ia A.singing, chanting
Lur-aoidos one who sings to the lyre,
Auloid-os A.one who sings to the flute
Psilociitharista One who plays without singing
Chorokithar-eus A.one who plays the cithara to a chorus, (Aphrodisias ZOE)
Psaltes a player on the cithara, a musician, minstrel

Jesus cast out the musical minstrels 'like dung' and consigned the pipers, singers and dancers to the marketplace FROM WHICH the "psallo rope" drove the slackers to the Ekklesia for verbal instruction only.  That is because all of the singers with instruments were known as parasites.
Parasitor, to play the parasite, to sponge: parasitarier, parasitando pascere ventres suos
Similar to kitharizein. See Plautus, Persa 
cĭthărīzo , āre,  kitharizô, to play on or strike the cithara, Nep. Epam. 2, 1; Vulg. Apoc. 14, 2.
Now, tell us that the Spirit OF Christ or Paul was so stupid that he did not know HOW to define singing AND playing in the external sense. In the HEART is a place.

For those labeling others as "legalists," a musical instrument is defined as "a machine for doing hard work" or for producing shock and awe in warfare orreligious spectacles intended to help the "gods" punish you--and pay them too.

The Siren Call of the NACC recruits a few "already convinced" to represent the ANTI-instrumental people and then agree with THEM. Getting on their lecture circuit is strong pressure.  If music is an optional issue one wonders why there has been such an effort to turn churches instrumental when they know that it will deliberately sow discord. The need to be affirmed in the instrumental sect does not indicate confidence in their position.

You might look at David Faust's material on the Temple.  We have done a rough outline to prove that because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai and the later demand for a human pastor to let them live and worship like the nations, God abandoned them to the worship of the starry host.  Therefore, what is used as LEGALISTIC PATTERNISM is the polluted worship of all Temple States. Furthermore, the message is that while you are singing, clapping and playing music and driving away all of the calm and peaceable people, you are STARVING them for lack of the Word. That is the message of Amos and Isaiah.

Both the Sabbath--meaning REST--and the Greek PAUO--meaning REST--are explicit in silencing all of those acts including arousal singing, playing instruments and all of the performing arts. In fact, a demagogue is defined as appeasing the masses using the performing arts.  Not surprising since the Greek definitions and John in Revelation 18 call them sorcerers.  The Biblical and historical messages is that music proves that you are using force to teach something which could not be taught by the Word.  Even if the motives are good, AIDING God through human effort is the meaning of legalism.

Commenting on the Willow Creek patternism adopted by some church growth cults:
It is interesting to see that the "art of the goddesses"
        is also being used today in a psychological manner; even in the church.
This is seen especially in The Church Growth Movement. For instance, CGM forerunner Bill Hybels of Willow Creek Community Church
[a church into using drama and music to reach people] says,
        1.  "A person's resistance to persuasion is very high when spoken to...
        2.  but very low when exposed to drama and music. We communicate truth through the back door.
        3.  People don't even know it's happening." Daily Herald, May 18, 1988.
That is why the Mother of Harlots (Rev 17) uses the lusted-after fruits as rhetoricians, singers and musicians a sorcerers (Rev 18).

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Why, pray tell, would the Church of Christ endure such abuse and efforts at hostile takeovers if they did not believe that MAKING MUSIC in the "school of the Bible" was a violation of direct commands and just common decency? No group has endured more hate crime--often at the hands of those they feed--than those STRANGE creatures whose practices are said to be that of "an ignorant, southern, rednecked mentality."  Why do you suppose people are so psychologically threatening in trying to deny people the liberty they claim to preach?

I appologize but not QUITE when I test the spirits of those who claim to speak for God because of some spiritual superiority.  Because the defense has no chronological meaning, I will just look at the arguments as they come.

1. If you looke at the red type below you will see quotes from Mark's sermon
2. If you are interested you can read the BLACK background to REFUTE this false religionism and the BLUE links to supporting evidence. Even so, I have added just a token number of repudiations. However, the Bible connects music to Lucifer in the garden of Eden to the Mother of Harlots in Revelation 17 using singers and instrument players whom John calls sorcerers in Revelation 18.  The prophecy in all "falls" from Grace is because:
        And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;
            because they received not the love of the truth,
             that they might be saved. 2 Thess 2:10
3. I am not on anyone's payroll and you should feel free to challenge or ask for clarification. Kenneth Sublett. living in Hohenwald, TN and victimized twice.
  1. The elder's duty includes "teaching that which has been taught and refuting those who oppose it."
  2. Your duty is to listen to what they teach FROM SCRIPTURE and watch the outcome of their lives.
  3. There is NO law of tithing or LAW OF GIVING: when they break the contract you are not to be an enabler. Lots of Evangelists would love to have your help.
We are posting quickly because there has been such discord deliberately sown by Mark Henderson who repeats the mantra of the NACC.
The Future of Worship at Quail
© Mark Henderson
April 1, 2007

I appreciate Lynn’s opening remarks, and I can tell you that I have looked forward to 

Kesheph (h3785) keh'-shef; from 3784; magic: - sorcery, witchcraft.

Kashaph (h3784) kaw-shaf'; a prim. root; prop. to whisper a spell, i. e. to inchant or practise magic: - sorcerer, (use) witch (-craft).

Many of you struggled with the “what” of an instrumental worship service because you didn’t know the “why” behind it, and I am hopeful that our time together these next few weeks will answer some questions and clear up some confusion. More than that, I hope it will help us pull together with a sense of excitement that God really is up to something good in this church family.
God was really up to something good when he gave us the WARNING  PATTERNISM of abandoning Israel to the worship of the starry host (Acts 7 and a host of other passages) "because of transgression" at Mount Sinai which was musical idolatry. When the elders [often the elders] fired God and demanded a "national" leadership and worship we understand that to be the Canaanite Baalism spread from Babylon to Egypt from whence God said Israel brought their "abominations."  Ecclesiasticus--in the volume Jesus quoted from--insists and the Bible defends the fact that God selected the kings to enable their captivity: He did not need to be fed, clothed, housed and sexually stimulated like the "gods."
Because God abandoned them to the worship of the starry host--that which they brought from Egypt--we know that this was the same Dionysus or "new wineskin" worship.  How can we doubt Plutarch.

Plutarch: And I suppose that their Sabbaths have some relation to Bacchus; for even now many call the Bacchi by the name of Sabbi, and they make use of that word at the celebration of Bacchus's orgies. And this may be discovered out of Demosthenes and Menander. Nor would it be out of place, were any one to say that the name Sabbath was given to this feast from the agitation and excitement which the priests of Bacchus display

That is why the national system--just like the pagans they prayed to imitate--used the same functionaries:

"We even have a mention at a later date of a similar custom in connection with the cult in Jerusalem, where certain Levites, called me'oreim, 'AROUSERS,' sang (every morning?) this verse from-"Ps 44:23: "Awake, O Lord! Why do you sleep? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever." The Talmud tells us that John Hyrcanus suppressed the practice because it recalled too readily a pagan custom." (Roland de Vaux, p. 247).

[[Vol. 2, Page]] 45 THE HEBREW KADESHIM. the Eleusinian. Thus "Bacchus was directly called upon," he says. The Sabazian worship was Sabbatic; the names Evius, or Hevius, and Luaios are identical with Hivite and Levite. Sab`bat´ic  a. 1. Of or pertaining to the Sabbath; resembling the Sabbath; enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor.  the Eleusinian. Thus "Bacchus was directly called upon," he says. The Sabazian worship was Sabbatic; the names Evius, or Hevius, and Luaios are identical with Hivite and Levite.

That is why God quarantined the civilians to the SYNAGOGUE, Qahal or church in the wilderness which outlawed music as the Synagogue children always understood. 
The musical failure in Job 21, Amos 5-8 and Isaiah 5 produced Bible starved and they were led into captivity and death.  The Qahal, synagogue or "church in the wilderness" was QUARANTINED from the pagan-like sacrificial system. Some first days and all seventh days they RESTED, read and rehearsed the WORD--just what Jesus exampled and Paul commanded and the historic church practiced.  No Israelite ever did singing with instrumental accompaniment as "worship."  No Jew ever had music in a synagogue until the year 1815 when thatsynagogue was divided.  No Catholic ever did congregational singing with organ accompaniment. The organ did preludes, intermissions and recessionals: the Psalms are not metrical and cannot be sung to instrumental accompaniment without rewriting them: adding to or taking away.
Mark Henderson: The instrumental music issue is just one piece of a larger picture that has been coming together for leadership over the past several months.
As we faced the reality of a gradually declining membership and sharply declining conversion statistics, our response was to say, “The status quo is unacceptable.
We don’t know exactly what the future holds, but we do know that we will not keep doing what we have been doing and just hope for different results.” Monte Stephens got his vision that we called “Tearing Down Walls” or “Removing Barriers,” and we started looking seriously at the things we do that create barriers between each other and that present barriers to people who are disconnected from church and from God.
Most instrumental churches have led the way was the heresy of a "musical worship team" to be the mediators and "lead" worship. This gagges lots of people and they just get sick and leave the "theater for performing arts" that used to be "school of the Bible."

I would first think about firing the preachers who caused the loss of member refusing to pay for the "staff infection" the senior imposes while deposing the vocational elders and deacons and song leaders.

Mark identifies the discord in 1991 over "musical worship teams." This is such an outrage and the music and persona of theatrical performers treating the body as audience was bound to attact all of the loose ends who never pay their way and move on.  The mature, straight, sector may not know what is happening but they don't like it.

Why introduce more barriers as stumbling blocks to the "owners" of the church?  How many thousands are driven away in time when you drive away just one family.  The church growth fad is a cult: Jesus didn't send anyone out to build an INSTITUTE.  There is not a jot or tittle about the "music as worship" concept which is not ANTI-biblical and ANTI-Christian. 

The qualifications for an elder who was pointed out or identified was that "he was already laboring to the point of exhaustion in preaching in teaching." The ROLE was to "teach that which HAD been taught and refute those who opposed it."   The "synagogue" in Romans 15 even if we call ADO singing or music in the modern sense, the directly commanded resource was to use one mind and one mouth to teach one another with "that which is written." Peter identified what was left for our memory as a face-to-face revelation and identified anyone who would teach otherwise as a false teacher: 

When you begin innovating or improvising you violate direct commands against adding or aiding God. That is why when FAILURE results people "crack away" and fall back to the archaic superstitions: for instance the Peyote Cult on the frontier after the destruction native worship.  Praise singing was always to appease or even threaten the "gods." Quoting Joseph Campbell and the Myths People Live By.  From the Britannica proving that musical instruments are MACHINES for compelling some work product: i.e. THE meaning of legalism:

Of Ceremonial objects: On occasion, objects have been used to compel the sacred (or divine) realm to act or react in a way that is favourable to the participants of the ceremonies or to the persons or activities with which such rituals are concerned, or to prevent the transcendent realm from harming or endangering them.

These objects thus can be mediatory devices to contact the divine world,
        as, for example, the drums of shamans (religious personages
        with healing and psychic-transformation powers).
Conversely, they can be mediatory devices used by a god or other supernatural being to relate to man in the profane realm.

They may also be used to ensure that a chief or sovereign of a tribe or nation achieves,
and is recognized to have, the status of divinity in cultic or community ceremonies.
        Of such a nature may be phallic cults.
You will remember that when the elders "fired" God and demanded a king like the nations (pagans) the KING was always considered the god or the AGENT of the god. 
"But were it evident, which it is not, either from this (2 Chron. 29:25) or any other place in the sacred writings, that instruments of music were prescribed by Divine authority under the law, could this be adduced with any semblance of reason that they ought to be used in Christian Worship? No..." (Adam Clark, Commentary, Vol. II, PP. 690-691).

"It was only permitted to the Jews as sacrifice was, for the heaviness and grossness of their souls. God condescended to their weakness, because they were lately drawn off from idols; but now, instead of organs, we may use our own bodies to praise him withal." (Chrysostom on Psa. 149, Vol. iii, p. 634).

"The instruments were used as worship to God and to give glory and elat to the earthly kingdom. They were tolerated by God as were many other things during this period, that he did not approve. The establishment of the kingdom itself was an act of rebellion against God" (David Lipscomb, Queries and Answers, pp. 226, 227, and Gospel Advocate, 1899, pp. 376, 377).
This was a motif or PATTERNISM which happens when a person seeks to dominate rather than serve people.  There is no history which denies that MUSIC and all of the performing arts (hypocrites) had no other purpose but to give GLORY to the 'tribal leader' and increase the fertility in new members (or lambs) as in all fertility cults.

H. Bamford Parke in Of Gods and Men noting that the "laded burden" Jesus died to remove was "spiritual anxiety created by religious ceremonial." This anxiety can be like a drug high and therefore desirable but not productive.

"The development both of religion and of the arts can be traced back in a continuous line to the hunting era. The group ritual of the primeval tribesmen were the origin not only of all religious ceremonial, but also of the drama and of poetry and music, while magic gave birth to the visual arts." (Parkes, Henry Bamford, On Gods and Men, p. 30).

The laden burden Jesus outlawed was "spiritual anxiety created by religious ceremonial."

That is why words like musica, magica, cantus and exegetice are all defined as magical devices to control the "gods" or to extract more money out of the superstitious:
"Awed by the mysteries of his own spirit no less than by those of nature, primitive man was likely to attribute to divine influence any abnormal emotional state, whether above or below the usual level. Medicine men customarily went into states of trance in which they were believed to be in communication with the gods,

and many tribes supposed lunatics and sexual deviants to be divinely possessed.

"When tribes grew too large for effective co-operation (and inbred), they often became subdivided into smaller kinship groups (clans, sibs, gentes) which continued to regard each other as close allies. Government was exercised by individual chieftains assisted by councils of elders" (p. 26).

"In this fashion evey common tribal interest--the recurrence of the seasons, the increase of the food supply, successful hunting--was likely to become embodied in some regularly repeated ceremony, which usually included group dancing, singing, and feasting.

Besides enabling men to express, and thereby to allay, ANGER and ANXIETY, such ceremonies also promoted tribal UNITY and strengthened the loyalty of the individual to TRIBAL TRADITION,for the emotional excitement they aroused had the effect of breaking down the barriers between individuals and thus fusing all tribesmen into a collective whole. Meanwhile, whole systems of magical devices were gradually elaborated." (Parkes, p. 29)

Men like Machiavell have been used to define the SLOWNESS of the CHANGE MOVEMENT: that movement speaks the identical words used by Adolph Hitler in Mein Kampf.

In direct conflict with this superstitious ritualism, Jesus promised to build His ekklesia which in one form had existed as the Qahal or "church in the wilderness." John will call them a generation of vipers which identifies the Cainites or Kenites imported into Canaan when the faithful Jews would not perform in the perverted or crooked musical religion inside of the Holy Places in the temple.  Peter called them a crooked generation which identifies the same "skolion" singers and musicians of whom Paul warned "don't get drunk on wine" or as the secular literature reads: "Don't get fluted down with wine."  Jesus called the a generation of children pointing to the children as leaders of the chorus in the marketplace: pipers, singers and dancers.

The laded burden Jesus died to remove along with the burden laders is 'spiritual anxiety created by religious rituals." There is ONE statement of Jesus which REPUDIATES musical worship. The word PAUO like SABBATH or REST specificially outlaws music as the PRIMARY method of creating emotional excitement for no other reason but to BIND those 'goose clapping' to the Alpha Male of the tribe of which church is an example.

The SELF-pleasure Paul outlined in Romans 15 means "creation of mental excitement." Therefore, the New Testament--over and over--repudiates the LIBERTIES to provide musical entertainment.

Sorry, but Monte got his VISION from promise keepers. This is actually a FULFILLMENT of the curse imposed on Israel because of wine, women and music.  In fact, it is GOD who tears down the walls to let the BEAST PEOPLE in to eat up your food. Click for more.

Not using instruments is never a barrier: that is just fabricated with a hidden agenda which everyone has known about for a long time. Mark is simply following behind Max Lucado, Rick Atchley and the ORIGINAL band who had this as their DRIVEN PURPOSE.

CLICK: Arnobius on Heresies takes note of this eternal problem; noting that John calls the rhetoricians, singers and musicians"sorcerers." Here is how to solve your CASH FLOW:

24. These are your ideas, these are your sentiments, impiously conceived, and more impiously believed.

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,
     &nbs