Al Maxey thinks rejecting musical instruments causes division and is therefore DEFILING the temple. He utterly judges and consigns those who refused to be DEFILED to hell. Before looking at this post by Al who rests on the Old Testament sacrificial system, take a look at how Israel fell from gract at Mount Sinai for which God turned them over to worship the starry host which people lust to restore.Defiling God's Temple: Al Maxey
ISRAELS SABBATH (REST) DEFILED:
Exod 31:14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore;
for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death:
for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
A Sabbath Fast excludes doing your own pleasure (music has no other motive) or even speaking your own words (Isaiah 58) as did the synagogue defined in Paul's "singing" passages and demanding that the elders teach that which has been taught. Jesus said that "speaking on your own" is the MARK of a son of the Devil.And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. Isa 58:12
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him,
- not doing thine own ways,
- nor finding thine own pleasure,
- nor speaking thine own words: Isa 58:13
Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord;
and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth,
and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father:
for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. Isa 58:14HOW DID THEY DEFILE THE SABBATH
On the PAUO (new rest day) where Jesus invites us OUTSIDE THE CAMP to rest and "come learn of me" the most common defiling of the human spirit as God's temple is sermonizing rather than "teaching that which has been taught" and not "singing that which is written." PAUO demands "Stop the speaking, Stop the singing, Stop the music."The word Halal is most often used as a PRAISE WORD meaning to "make self vile. This boast song could drive the enemy into cowardice and panic because to lose the battle meant to be "Robbed, raped and raptured" in that order. Halal is the root meaning of LUCIFER (Zoe)
Chalal (h2490) khaw-lal'; to wound, to dissolve; fig. to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), denom. (from 2485) to play (the flute): - begin (* men began), defile, * break, defile, * eat (as common things), * first, * gather the grape thereof, * take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, cast as profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
Ezek. 28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
Ezek. 28:13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Ezek. 28:16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Work outlawed for the Sabbath now PAUO or rest under Christ:
Melakkah (h4399) mel-aw-kaw'; from the same as 4397; prop. deputyship, i. e. ministry; gen. employment servile) or work (abstr. or concr.); also property (as the result of labor): - business, * cattle, * industrious, occupation, (* -pied), * officer, thing (made), use, (manner of) work ([man], -manship). (never
Malok (g4397) mal-awk'; from an unused root mean. to despatch as a deputy; a messenger; spec. of God, i. e. an angel (also a prophet, priest or teacher): - ambassador, angel, king, messenger.
Jesus cast out the musical minstrels like dung and consigned to the Agora or marketplace the pipers, singers and dancers along with all of the other defilements and universally perverted musical performers.
Al Maxey: The real problem being addressed in this particular passage [1 Cor. 3:16-17] is the potential for some to seek to defile the church of our Lord Jesus Christ by their godless, self-serving actions and attitudes. Paul makes it clear that whoever seeks to "destroy" this sanctuary of the Holy Spirit (the church), God will "destroy" him. Obviously, the Lord's church cannot be utterly "destroyed" by any one man or group of men. They may do it great damage, but they can't "bring it to naught."Firstly, the context and fact is that the temple is not the church but the human spirit in which God dwells by faith.
A holy spirit in our body is OUR spirit made holy What? know ye not that For ye are bought with a price: your body therefore glorify God in your body, is the temple of the Holy Spirit and in your spirit, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 1 Corinthians 6:1 which are Gods. 1 Corinthians 6:20 Because Paul's uniqe worship words speak of giving heed or attendance to reading and exhorting the Word of God, and because both Jesus and Paul said (if we needed to be told) that such giving heed to the spirit OF truth can only take place in the mind or spirit and not with the body. Therefor, If I come before the throne of Grace--without a mediatory--then you defile MY temple.
Collectively the Church of Christ is the body of Christ and He is the Head of the Body. He promises to be with us as our Teacher while we REST and learn of Him. That happens according to Paul when the elders "teach that which has been taught" and in Romans 15 when we "sing that which is written." Al insists that YOU must be a participant and have no liberty to refute his imposition when he violates those two direct commands. Therefore, you cannot defile the collective body without making those who oppose your spiritual fornication participatants with you. After all "corrupting the Word" is defined as "selling knowledge at retail" and means adultery. If the peddlers are musicians then the definition of spiritual prostitution is made certain as Revelation 17-18 makes certain. It is a mark of the Pharisee that they had to change God's word to make a business out of it.
Jesus commanded and Paul demanded that that component we call worship MUST be in the place of our human spirit made holy by God at baptism:
For we are the circumcision, which worship God in THE spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus,
and have no confidence in the flesh. Phil 3:3I cannot do that with musicians "performing" the hypocritic arts! Why did both Jesus and Paul define worship in our "closets"?
The dogs were the Cynics whom you could identify by their singing style:Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. Phil 3:2
Kuôn
I. a dog or bitch,
II. as a word of reproach, to denote shamelessness or audacity in women, rashness, recklessness in men, Hom.2. at Athens a nickname of the Cynics, Arist., Anth.
III. the Trag. apply the term to the ministers of the gods; the eagle is Dios ptênos kuôn Aesch.; the griffins Zênos akrageis kunes id=Aesch.; the Bacchantes Lussês
3. of the Cynics, areskei toutois kunôn
Pan is the kuôn of Cybele, of the planetAreskô Ores-teros , a, on, poet. for oreinos, epith. of a snake, Il.22.93 ; of wolves and lions, Od.10.212, Hêphaistou [Lucifer] k., of sparks, Harpies, Hecate, in Mithraic worship,
Outlawed in Romans 15 as SELF-pleasure.For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. Re.22:15
We will see more of Al's appeal to the Maccabees for warning about defiling the temple BECAUSE you refuse to participate with those who are defined AS the polluters. Al fights those who do NOT take liberties based on silence. For now, note:
The Church is the ekklesia or synagogue or school of the Bible: as defined in numbers 10 it excludes both vocal and instrumental rejoicing. The first major use of the word PSALLO has to do with warfare or shooting "love arrows." The second major use is of the red rope to MARK those who dallied in the Agora or marketplace and drove them to the ekklesia for verbal instruction only. The PSALLO red mark indeed marks one who is POLLUTED when they get to the ekklesia or "church". Click for more on the MARK of those tarrying around wine and music.1 - Not long after this, the king sent an Athenian senator to compel the Jews to forsake the laws of their fathers and cease to live by the laws of God,
2 - and also to pollute the temple
> in Jerusalem and call it the temple of Olympian Zeus,
> and to call the one in Gerizim the temple of Zeus the Friend of Strangers, as did the people who dwelt in that place.3 - Harsh and utterly grievous was the onslaught of evil.
Malus evil betide him! (a formula of imprecation), male tibi esse malo quam molliter, I would rather you should be unfortunate than effeminate,
Mollis 2. In a bad sense, soft, effeminate, unmanly, weak (syn. effeminatus): philosophus tam mollis, tam languidus, tam enervatu disciplina, effeminate, delicatior. mollis versus, an elegiac or amatory poem. [pathici submitting to unnatural lust],
Verg. E. 3, 11 : gramina, id. A. 2, 471 : carmen, i. e. an incantation,
Canto I. Neutr., to produce melodious sounds (by the voice or an instrument), to sound, sing, play. III. In the lang. of religion, as v. n. or a., to use enchantments, charms, incantations, exorcised by magic, B. To call forth, produce by charms
Incentor, o-ris, m. [id.] , one who sets the tune or begins to sing, a precentor, singer (post-class.).
I. Lit.: carminis, Paul. Nol. Carm. 15, 32 : [1] incentore [2] canam [3] Phoebo [4] Musisque [5] magistris, Avien. Perieg. 895 ; Isid. 6, 9, 13.--
II. Trop., an [A] inciter, exciter: [B] igneus [C] turbarum, Amm. 15, 1, 2 : civilis belli, Oros. 5, 19 : rebellionis [renewal of war] totius, id. 6, 11 . Flamen Hislop
Incensor I. one who kindles or sets fire to, II. Trop., an inciter, instigator: turbarum,When attached to an adjective, it freq. gives it the opposite meaning: male sanus = insanus, insane, deranged,
4 - For the temple was filled with debauchery and reveling by the Gentiles,
........... who dallied with harlots and
........... had intercourse with women within the sacred precincts,
........... and besides brought in things for sacrifice that were unfit.G2970 Revel
To understand the Abomination of Desolation see Mark Henderson at Quail Springs.
We have added a table to show some history of the Old Testament which would prevent any beginning Bible student from using the curse of the sacrificial system as a DIRECT COMMAND to use instrumental music. See how Maccabees helps define the Levites and all religious musicians as Parasites.
Al wants to impose the OLD COVENANT; the New Covenant is both inclusive and exclusive:
Diathêkê II. hai aporrêtoi d. mystic deposits on which the common weal depended, prob. oraclesAl Maxey: Jesus Himself said that He would build His church, "and the gates of Hades shall not overpower it" [Matt. 16:18].1 Pet. 4:2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
1 Pet. 4:3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
If any man speak,
let him speak as the oracles of God;A. oracle, esp. one preserved from antiquity,
2. ta l. Kuriou the sayings of the Lord
Rom 3:1 WHAT advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
Rom 3:2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.Romans 15 and similar commands: "Speak with ONE MIND and ONE MOUTH that which is written."
Ephesiahs 5. The SPIRIT or "Psalms, hymns and Spiritual songs" all the INSPIRED TEXT.
Colossians3: The Word of Christ.if any man minister, [diakoneo],
let him do it as of the ability which God giveth:
that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ,
to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 1 Pet. 4:11
I will resist too much attention to the ONLY meaning of the GATES OF HELL. Well, maybe just a bit to show that Jesus often spoke in parables to repudiate the matriarchal religionism of Babylon: in Revelation 17 John identifies the Mother of Harlots. In chapter 18 he warns about the "lusted after fruits" and identifies the speakers, singers and instrument players as sorcerers. More later. Click to see how the prostitute goddess stole the magical scrolls or incantations we will discuss.
- Including the ability to move in and out of the gates of hell to rescue Tammuz to return and play the magic flute with the women to restore the harvest.
- Enki raised his cup and toasted Inanna a second time:
- "In the name of my power! In the name of my holy shrine!
- To my daughter Inanna I shall give Truth!
- ..........Descent into the underworld!
- ..........Ascent from the underworld!
- ..........The art of lovemaking!
- ..........The art of kissing the phallus!"
- Inanna replied:
- "I take them!"
- Enki raised his cup and toasted Inanna a third time:
- "In the name of my power! In the name of my holy shrine!
- To my daughter Inanna I shall give
- The holy priestess of heaven!
- ..........The setting up of lamentations! The rejoicing of the heart!
- ..........The giving of judgements! The making of decisions!"
- Inanna replied:
- "I take them!"
This is the same lamenting for Tammuz in Ezekiel 8.Al Maxey: The Greek word actually utilized by Paul in our text is phtheiro [Click for discussion below], which may be translated "to spoil, corrupt, defile, ruin." Basically, Paul is suggesting that if any person seeks to defile this sanctuary of the Spirit, God will bring that person to ultimate ruination. Those who would defile the Holy Spirit's dwelling are themselves completely defiled in the sight of God, and thus fit only for eternal banishment from the immortality promised to those who dwell in Him, and who have Him indwelling them.You may look at our review of Terry Rush to show that the Levitical Warrior Musicians could never enter into the Holy or Most Holy place of the Tabernacle. A singer or musician who ventured into the Holy Place (type of the body of Christ) or into the Most Holy Place (our spirit) would be executed just like a dumb ox.
See how Isaiah 30 uses the nations to show that Hell was prepared for those who defile the temple: the MARK is that you hear the wind, string and percussion instruments.
The people of Israel were warned that if anyone defiled the tabernacle, their fate would be death [Lev. 15:31]. Acts 21:27-31a recounts an incident that demonstrates just how seriously the Jews took this charge. Paul is applying that same intensity and zealousness for holiness and purity to the Lord's church.
A singer or musician who entered into the Holy or Most Holy place--even to clean out the garbage--defiled the temple and would be executed.
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.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.That means that if Al encourages people--not even Levites to come into the holy places he is contributing to the defilement of the church and is self condemned.
Al Maxey: What specifically is this threat to the Lord's One Body? What behavior is so vile that it would defile the church of our Lord Jesus Christ? By examining both the immediate and remote contexts of this passage, the threat becomes clear. It is a sectarian spirit that fosters strife and separation among spiritual siblings! "There is jealousy and strife among you" [1 Cor. 3:3]. They were rallying around mere men, rather than the Lord Jesus. Some were claiming to be of Paul, others of Apollos, others of Cephas [1 Cor. 3:4f; cf. 1 Cor. 1:12-13]. There were quarrels among them [1 Cor. 1:11], which were threatening to lead to schisms, factions and godless divisions [vs. 10]. Such dividing asunder of this spiritual house would constitute a spoiling, corruption and defilement.Any one who has read 1 Corinthians 1 would see Paul radically condemn the fall from grace just as he did in Romans 1. Paul explains Isaiah 33 to EXCLUDE all of the trappings Al and other men want to force fit.
One of the marks of having read the word is that you will discover that ALL musical terms and names of instruments derive fro evil: Satan, warriors, prostitutes, Sodomites. This is THE meaning of bring VILE things and people into the "school of the Bible."
"The name of psaltery entered Christian literature in the 3rd century B.C. translation of the Old Testament called the Septuagint where, in the Psalms, nebel was translated psalterion.
Thus, Nebuchadnezzar's idolatrous ensemble included the Aramic psantria. Notice, also, that the book of Psalms has also become known as the Psalter (or psalterium), from the hymns sung with this harp. Source
- Nebel (h5035) neh'-bel; or nebel nay'-bel; from 5034; a skin- bag for liquids (from collapsing when empty); hence a vase (as similar in shape when full); also a lyre (as having a body of like form): - bottle, pitcher, psaltery, vessel, viol
- The harp is derived from:
- Nabel (h5034) naw-bale'; a prim. root; to wilt; gen. to fall away, fail, faint; fig. to be foolish or (mor.) wicked; causat. to despise, disgrace: - disgrace, dishonour, lightly esteem, fade (away, - ing), fall (down, -ling, off), do foolishly, come to nought, * surely, make vile, wither..
Al Maxey: Those responsible would answer to God, and the punishment for defiling His sanctuary had always been death. The apostle Paul pronounces "the judgment of God upon all who would defile His house by their carnal divisions" [Dr. B. W. Johnson, The People's New Testament, vol. 2, p. 84]. Dr. Paul Kretzmann refers to such persons, who are obviously devoid of the Spirit of Christ Jesus, as "agitators ... inciting wrangling and strife" [p. 101].Any rhetorician, singer or instrument player who entered into the Holy or Most Holy Place would defile the temple and would be instantly executed.
Because Al Maxey has his big guns aimed specificially at the Church of Christ which has never used instruments (machines for doing hard work) and continues to teach that both the instruments and the deliberate sowing of discord is defiling the "fellowship" whatever that may be.
Now, the Agitators are the musical ministers of goddess worship.Robertson a Presbyterian notes the dishonest PUT DOWN.
If you listen to an organ discussion, or read a ritualistic paper,
you cannot fail to discover
that "liberty" is identified with additions to common notions.Al Maxey: how to make the changes. TWO --- "Introduce the idea as an addition, not a replacement." Many will consider something new if they know they do not have to abandon that to which they have grown accustomed. If a cherished tradition is perceived by the members to be threatened or at risk, they will rise to its defense (and that generally means attacking and terminating anything new which seeks to replace it). Thus, seek NOT to replace, but to enhance. Offer additional options; greater choices. Never shoot a "sacred cow" --- allow it to graze peacefully in the pasture while the new, improved herd is brought in for inspection.
The people who seek to hold men to unadorned notions,
instead of being accounted friends of liberty,
are held up to execration as bigots, tyrants, men of contracted notions and shallow minds;with whom to identify liberty, is held to be as absurd as would have been for Gordon, of Jamaica, to have expected justice from a court martial of aristocratic cadets and martinets.
But the truth is that the ways which are now old-fashioned, were then new. Men had had a long trial of rites and ceremonies, - of trumpets, and psalteries, and harps, - and they were new "MAKING THE EXPERIMENT OF CHANGE."
Shall we put it so? Is it so as Peter puts it? Let us recall his words,
"Now, therefore, why tempt ye God to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear."
Peter thus looked upon the changes effected amongst these churches, - amongst which we must reckon trumpets, psalteries, and harps, of solemn sound and grave sweet melody, - as effected by God to promote the liberty and welfare of the human race;
and he blames the restorists, as tempters of God and enemies of liberty, as putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples, which neither their fathers nor they were able to bear. "Not able to bear!"
Gal 5:12 As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!Paul is warning about the castrated and sex changed priests of Cybele: her musical worship ministers. By restricting women and limiting the teaching role to senior males, Paul hoped to guard against the antics of the "mad women" in Corinth and the old form of the "new wineskin" worship which was musical and perverted.
Melpô, Sing or celebrate a song and dance Melos 2.music to which a song is set, tune 3. melody of an instrument, Mouso-polos, on, A.serving the Muses, poetic II. Subst., bard, minstrel, AS THE: Aoidos A.singer, minstrel, bard, 3.enchanter, Eunouchos Eunouchos A. castrated person, eunuch, employed to take charge of the women Gallos, ho, A. priest of Cybele, Used with: Pempô , 2. pompên p. conduct, or take part in, a procession, chorous move in dancing procession, phallos Dionusôi pempomenos carried in procession in his honour.To agitate with music is to "crucify Christ to yourselves." Those who are so agitated with perverted music are usually told "get over it or get out." J. W. McGarvey was told that in his own congregation. He discusses the satanic "guilt clause" used by those who are the SECTARIANS to blame those who refuse to remain.
Those who lie about all of the music passages have calculated the loses of those driven out of their church family by the introduction of most styles of music which is not part of the ekklesia or school of the Bible. The word is:"That a vast amount of evil has been occasioned by the introduction of instrumental music into Christian worship is undeniable.
Beginning with the first instance of it among us which I can remember that which caused a schism in the church in St. Louis in the year 1869
its progress has been attended by strife, alienation, and division, with all their attendant evils, in hundreds of congregations.
Before this it had bred similar evils among Methodist societies and Baptist and Presbyterian churches; for all these bodies in their early days knowing that the practice originated in the Roman Catholic Church, regarded it as a Romish corruption and refused to tolerate it until it was forced upon them by the spirit of innovation which characterized the present century.
Anastatoo (g387) an-as-tat-o'-o; from a der. of 450 (in the sense of removal); prop. to drive out of home, i.e. (by impl.) to disturb (lit. or fig.): - trouble, turn upside down, make an uproar, to stir up, excite, unsettle to excite tumults and seditions in the state to upset, unsettle, minds by disseminating religious error.But, Al Maxey says that you are a legalistic, sectarian patternists and now a defiler of the temple if you OBJECT to the agitators OR if you dare tell anyone that they are wrong. However, we have reviewed the proof literature by O.E. Payne and Tom Burgess and ALL of the instances of plucking the harp was by males trying to seduce a younger male.
You don't need to be too bright to know that MUSIC intends to ignore the Word of God and create the SPIRITUAL ANXIETY which Jesus died to remove along with the burden laders. You may be in danger if you violated all of the direct commands and examples and made MUSIC so that you did not HAVE to "give Heed to the Word"--as Paul's only "worship word."
Carried in a fast ship over profound seas
- Attis, eager and hurried, reached the Phrygian grove,
- The goddess's dark places, crowned with woodland.
- And there, exalted by amorous rage, his mind gone,
- He cut off his testicles with a sharp flint.
- While the ground was still spotted with fresh blood
Quickly took in his snowy hands a tambourine
- Such as serves your initiates, Cybele, instead of a trumpet,
- And shaking the hollow calf-hide with delicate fingers,
- Quivering, she began to sing to the troop this:
- Go together, votaresses, to the high groves of Cybele.
- Go together, wandering herd of the lady of Dindymus.
- Quick into exile, you looked for foreign places
- And, following me and the rule I had adopted,
- You bore with the salt tide and the violence of the high sea
And emasculated your bodies from too much hatred of Venus:
- Delight the lady's mind with your errant haste.
- Overcome your reluctance: together
- Go to the Phrygian shrine of Cybele, to her groves
Where the voice of cymbals sounds, the tambourines rattle,
- Where the Phrygian piper sings with the deep curved pipe,
- Where Maenads wearing ivy throw back their heads,
- Where they practice the sacred rites with sharp yells.
- Where they flutter around the goddess's cohort:
- It is there we must go with our rapid dances."
- As Attis, the counterfeit woman, sang this to her companions,
- The choir howled suddenly with tumultuous tongues.
- The tambourine bellows, the cymbals clash again;
- The swift troop moves off to Ida with hurrying feet.
- Crazy, panting, drifting, at her last gasp,
- Attis with her tambourine leads them through the opaque groves
- Like an unbroken heifer refusing the yoke:
- The swift votaresses follow their swift-footed leader.
- When they reach Cybele's shrine, feeble and worn,
- From too much toil they take their rest without bread (Ceres).
- Sleep covers their eyes with a heavy blanket;
- Their rabid madness subsides to a girlish quiet.
And you used a style specificially intending to stir UP, exite minds and "disseminating religious error" by failing to "sing that which is written" and "teach that which has been taught" all evidence said that you CRUCIFIED Jesus Christ again .
Chrysostom's Commentary on Galatians: Galatians 5:1.-"With freedom did Christ set us free; stand fast therefore.115." Ver. 12.We will see below that Al's proof word for DEFILING the temple which he says is objecting to the use of instruments and choosing with whom we will worship, is in fact, bringing musical instruments and the universal personae of musicians into the "school of the Bible." The following instruments are said to be the defiling:"I would that they which unsettle you would even cut themselves off." And he says well "that unsettle you."
"A man that is heretical after the first and second admonition refuse." (Tit. iii: 10) If they will,let them not only be circumcised, but mutilated.
Where then are those who dare to mutilate themselves; seeing that they draw down the Apostolic curse, and accuse the workmanship of God, and take part with the Manichees? ... But if you will not allow this,
why do you not mutilate the tongue for blasphemy, the hands for rapine, the feet for their evil courses, in short, the whole body?
For the ear enchanted by the sound of a flute hath often enervated the soul;
and the perception of a sweet perfume by the nostrils hath bewitched the mind, and made it frantic for pleasure.
Cantus , 2. With instruments, a playing, music: in nervorum vocumque cantibus, Cic. Tusc. 1, 2, 4 ; id. Rosc. Am. 46, 134: citharae, Hor. C. 3, 1, 20 : horribili stridebat tibia cantu, Cat. 64, 264 : querulae tibiae, Hor. C. 3, 7, 30 : dulcis tibia cantu, Tib. 1, 7, 47 : bucinarum, Cic. Mur. 9, 22 : simul ac tubarum est auditus cantus, Liv. 25, 24, 5 : lyrae, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 72 : tibicines, qui fidibus utuntur, suo arbitrio cantus numerosque moderantur, Cic. Tusc. 5, 36, 104 : cantu tubarum convocare concilium, Auct. B. G. 8, 20: raucisonoque mi-nantur cornua cantu, Lucr. 2, 619 : rauco strepuerunt cornua cantu, Verg. A. 8, 2 .-- Of an actor: tardiores tibicinis modos et cantus remissiores facere, [make believe, pretend] B. An incantation, charm, magic song, etc.: cantusque artesque magorumIn Hebrew all musical instruments are rooted into Satanic, vile, and sexual meanings:
H5035 nebel nêbel From H5034 ; a skin bag for liquids (from collapsing when empty); hence, a vase (as similar in shape when full); also a lyre (as having a body of like form): bottle, pitcher, psaltery, vessel, viol.
H5034 nâbêl naw-bale' A primitive root; to wilt; generally to fall away, fail, faint; figuratively to be foolish or (morally) wicked; causatively to despise, disgrace:--disgrace, dishonour, lightly esteemAl Maxey: "How dare they seek to destroy that temple with their jealousy and quarreling!!" [Gary T. Cage, The Holy Spirit: A Sourcebook with Commentary, p. 540]. Dr. W. Robertson Nicoll, in his classic work Rev. 18:15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,If any singer or musician entered into the Jerusalem Temple or even most of the really vile temples it would what Jesus identified as the HYPOCRITES and not the temple which would be destroyed.
Rev. 18:16 And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! identifies these defilers of the sanctuary as those promoting "party schisms" [vol. 2, p. 793].
Why would God LOVE the sound or noise of HARPS? Then why did He ALWAYS associate music and musical instruments with Satan led pollution to steal worship FROM God.
They will plunder your wealth and loot your merchandise; they will break down your walls and demolish your fine houses and throw your stones, timber and rubble into the sea. Ezek 26:12 I will put an end to your noisy songs, and the music of your harps will be heard no more. Ezek 26:13
"And he shall destroy the multitude of thy musicians, and the sound of thy psalteries shall be heard no more." Ezek. 26:13 LXX- then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of long ago. I will make you dwell in the earth below, as in ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pit, and you will not return or take your place in the land of the living. Ezek 26:20
Rev. 18:15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
Rev. 18:16 And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
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.
PhtheirôOnly those who ADD something not required are HERETICS. John Locke Wrote:
For it is not the paucity of those that are separated, nor the authority of the magistrate,
that can make any man guilty of heresy,but he only is a heretic who divides the Church into parts,
introduces names and marks of distinction,
and voluntarily makes a separation because of such opinions.Nor does it signify anything for them to say that their confessions and symbols
are agreeable to Scripture and to the analogy of faith;
for if they be conceived in the express words of Scripture, there can be no question about them, because those things are acknowledged by all Christians to be of divine inspiration and therefore fundamental.It will, no doubt, be said that the attempt to prove the unjustifiable employment of instrumental music in the public worship of the Church is schismatical,
since the practice is now well-nigh universal;
that it is trivial, inasmuch as it concerns a mere circumstantial in the services of religion;
and that it is useless, as the tendency which is resisted is invincible,
and is destined to triumph throughout Protestant Christendom.To all this one answer alone is offered, and it is sufficient, namely: that the attempt is grounded in truth. It involves a contest for a mighty and all-comprehending principle, by opposing one of the special forms in which it is now commonly transcended and violated." George Girardeau, Against Instrumental music.
Al Maxey wants to make the point that REFUSING to either use or condone sowing of discord by the use of instrumental music is that which DEFILES the temple of God. On the contrary, this is a defiling or polluting word most often used to define homosexual musicians all known to be parasites.
Phthora
Here are some of the meanings of Al's RACA word which in fact IMPLICATES all religious music and musicians in the perverted worship of pagans--then and now.The Iamblichus
There are some, however, who suppose there is likewise, the subject-race of a tricky nature, artful, and assuming all shapes, turning many ways, that personates gods and dæmons and souls of the dead like actors on the stage; and that through these everything that seems to be good or bad is possible. They are led to form this judgment because these subject-spirits are not able to contribute anything really beneficial as relates to the soul, nor even to perceive such things; but on the other hand, they ill treat, deride, and often impede those who are returning to virtue.2 Peter 2:13 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 themselves
with their own deceivings [delusions] while they feast with you;
2Pet. 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest;Entrupo (g1792) en-troo-fah'-o; from 1722 and 5171; to revel in: - sporting selves.
gamêliôi lechei [marriage couch-bed] hêdonais, playing in the wind, exult over, treat haughtily or contemptuously, made a mock of, tinos sumphorais, III. use or abuse at pleasure
Paison paizô [pais] 4. to play (on an instrument), Hhymn. II. to sport, play, jest, joke, Hdt., Xen., etc.; p. pros tina to make sport of one, mock him,
[See Plato-Symposium]
Symposium;
Then, said Eryximachus, as you are all agreed that drinking is to be voluntary, and that there is to be no compulsion,
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.
To-day let us have conversation instead; and, if you will allow me,
I will tell you what sort of conversation.
to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
2Pet. 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity,
they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness,
those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
2Pet. 2:19 While they promise them liberty,
they themselves are the servants of corruption: [Phthora]
for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
2Pet. 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world
through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.They are likewise full of conceit, and take delight in vapors and sacrifices.
5. Because the begging priest with open mouth attempts in many ways to raise our expectations. Note 13
13. The agurtes or begging priest generally belonged to the worship of Rhea [ZOE] or Cybele, the Mother. He is frequently depicted in a most unfavorable light. Apuleius speaks of a company of these emasculate priests in the eighth book of the Metamorphoses. They are also described in the Republic of Plato:
"Agurtæ and Mantics frequent the houses of the rich and persuade them that they possess a power granted by the gods to expiate, by sacrifices and chants any unjust act that has been committed and that they induce the gods by blandishments and magic rites to help them. They collected money in this way, and they also followed the selling of nostrums and telling of fortunes."
Agur-tês A. collector, esp. begging priest of Cybele, GalloisThe speakers, singers and instrument players were "lusted after fruits" under the Mother of Harlots and John called them sorceriers although all religious operatives were called parasites.
Phtheiro 1. destroy things, wast them, pass away, cease to be, perish
Phtheiro 2. of persons, ph. destroy them, Hes.Th.876 (bXenophon, Memorabilia 1.5. Surely then, if we should refuse a vicious slave, the master must look to it that he does not grow vicious himself? For whereas the covetous, by robbing other men of their goods, seem to enrich themselves, a vicious man reaps no advantage from the harm he does to others. If he is a worker of mischief to others, he brings much greater mischief on himself, if indeed the greatest mischief of all is to ruin not one's home merely, but the body and the soul.
[3][4] In social intercourse what pleasure could you find in such a man, knowing that he prefers your sauces and your wines to your friends, and likes the women better than the company? Should not every man hold self-control to be the foundation of all virtue, and first lay this foundation firmly in his soul?
Hes.Th.876 Hesiod, TheogonyPhtheiro 3. corrupt, bribe, lure, entice, trap, entices to its ruin, entraps, pervert phtheirousin êthê chrêsth'homiliaikakai
From the Heliconian Muses let us begin to sing, who hold the great and holy mount of Helicon, and dance on soft feet about the deep-blue spring and the altar of the almighty son of Cronos,[5] and, when they have washed their tender bodies in Permessus or in the Horse's Spring or Olmeius, make their fair, lovely dances upon highest Helicon and move with vigorous feet. Thence they arise and go abroad by night,[10] veiled in thick mist, and utter their song with lovely voice, praising Zeus the aegis-holder, and queenly Hera of Argos who walks on golden sandals, and the daughter of Zeus the aegis-holder bright-eyed Athena, and Phoebus Apollo [Abaddon, Apollyon], and Artemis who delights in arrows...
[25] the Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis: "Shepherds of the wilderness, wretched things of shame, mere bellies, we know how to speak many false things as though they were true; but we know, when we will, to utter true things."
Even so, then, the earth melted in the glow of the blazing fire. And in the bitterness of his anger Zeus cast him into wide Tartarus. And from Typhoeus come boisterous winds which blow damply,
The only "music" concept in the word PSALLO has to do with Apollo and others shooting real arrows, love arrows and "shooting out hymns."
Pindar Olympian 9.[1] The resounding strain of Archilochus, the swelling thrice-repeated song of triumph, sufficed to lead Epharmostus to the hill ofCronus, in victory-procession with his dear companions.
[5] But now, from the bow of the Muses who, shooting from afar, send a shower of such arrows of song as these on Zeus of the red lightning-bolt and on the sacred height of Elis, which once the Lydian hero Pelops [10] won as the very fine dowry of Hippodameia.
[11] And shoot a winged sweet arrow to Pytho; for your words will not fall to the ground, short of the mark, when you trill the lyre in honor of the wrestling of the man from renowned Opus.
Trill is: elelizô 2. Med. and Pass., move in coils or spires, of a serpent,
III. cause to vibrate, megan d' elelixen Olumpon, of Zeus, ib.1.530, cf. 8.199; phorminga e. make its strings quiver, quake, tremble, quiver, brandished spear,The Deipnosophists of Athenaeus of Naucratis Book XIII: Concerning Women
So, then, most learned grammarian, I urge you to keep away from the high-priced prostitutes, because "you may see all the other flute-girls playing Apollo's tune... Zeus's tune; but these ladies play nothing but the Hawk's tune;"
As for myself, fellow-banqueters, I have not discussed courtesans after the manner of Metagenes' Breezes, or The Blockhead of Aristagoras: "I told you first of beautiful dancing prostitutes, and now I do not speak to you of flute-girls just beginning to be ripe, who have very quickly, and for a price, undermined the strength of sailors aboard the freighters/"
[870] except Notus and Boreas and clear Zephyr. These are a god-sent kind, and a great blessing to men; but the others blow fitfully upon the sea. Some rush upon the misty sea and work great havoc among men with their evil, raging blasts;[875] for varying with the season they blow, scattering ships and destroying sailors. And men who meet these upon the sea have no help against the mischief.....
[1015] And they ruled over the famous Tyrsenians, very far off in a recess of the holy islands. And the bright goddess Calypso was joined to Odysseus in sweet love, and bore him Nausithous and Nausinous.[1020] These are the immortal goddesses who lay with mortal men and bore them children like gods. But now, sweet-voiced Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis, sing of the company of women.
Phtheiro b.seduce a woman, hupotêsthugatrosadikoumenonkai Dionusiou touphtheirantosautên kinaidouChrêsmodot-ês , A.one who gives oracles, prophet, soothsayer,
Kinaid-os A.catamite, Pl.Grg.494e, etc.: generally, lewd fellow, Herod.2.74, PSI5.483.12.public dancer Cinaedus: I. He who practises unnatural lust, a sodomite, catamite,
The Jews hoped that John wore the SOFT clothing of a catamite and Jesus accused them of being children (Play=pervert) piping hoping to induce the singing and dance of Dionysus. Jesus consigned them to the marketplace with all of the other pagan, polluted religions.Phtheiro 4. ruin, spoil, pharmakon 3.enchanted potion, philtre: hence, charm, spell[ Pl.Grg.494e] Socrates
Soc. It is not my fault, Callicles; our friend Chaerephon is to blame; for he would keep us loitering in the Agora.
Chaerephon. Never mind, Socrates; the misfortune of which I have been the cause I will also repair; for Gorgias is a friend of mine, and I will make him give the exhibition again either now, or, if you prefer, at some other time.
Is it so if he only wants to scratch his head? Or what more am I to ask you? See, Callicles, what your answer will be, if you are asked everything in succession that links on to that statement; and the culmination of the case, as stated--the life of catamites--is not that awful, shameful, and wretched? Or will you dare to assert that these are happy if they can freely indulge their wants?
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 18:22
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 [pharmakea] were all nations deceived. Rev 18:23Used with: epôidê , Ion. and poet.epaoidê , hê, A.song sung to or over: hence, enchantment, spell, Magi, Hdt.1.132 ; Rev 9:17. Thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of lions. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulfur.Phtheiro b. with a Prep., luroidou, phtheiresthai pros tous plousious, of hangers-on and flatterers, D.21.139, Ant.24;[18] By these three plagues were one third of mankind killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of their mouths.[19] For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm.[20] The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn't repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn't worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.[21] They didn't repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts
Luroidou lur-aoidos
A.one who sings to the lyre, harmonia meaning: In music, stringing, of bows and lyres, musical scale, generally music: rhythm, acting, dancing.
hudr-aulês one who plays the water organ
This included most of the musical instruments. Of the water organ:
Towards the end of the fourth century AD, the historian Ammianus Marcellinus lamented the decadence of the times: As things stand today, the few houses that once were centres for the cultivation of serious study are overflowing with the wanton playthings of sluggish idleness, re-echoing with the sound of voices and the jangle of musical instruments... The libraries are sealed forever, like tombs, and men construct hydraulic organs and huge lyres looking like chariots...
The organ Connected with Arsinoe: by Hydelus of Alexandria c 250BC:
Come, all ye lovers of pure wine,
Come, and within Arsinoë's shrine
Behold the Rhytum: like th' Egyptian dancer
Besas, giving forth tones pure and bold,
Such is the Rhytum's mouth, outpouring.
It makes no sound of war;
But from its golden mouth
It signals mirth and revelry,
Such as the Nile, King of flowing rivers
Pours in watery sound from holy shrines,
Dear to the priests of sacred mysteries.
Then honour this invention of Ktesibios,
And hasten ye to fair Arsinoë's shrine.
Isaac of Antioch (c 450AD
The flute was joined with the tongue, and the lips with the hydraulus, to make the desired sound as if from a single mouth. By its loudness the hydraulus dominated the other more delicate sounds, but it united with them so that the music reached the tops of the palaces; devoid of judgement and speech, the instrument joined forces with the men to make their voice heard far and wide.
Demosthenes 21:
[139] But now, I believe, his champions are Polyeuctus and Timocrates and the ragamuffin Euctemon. Such are the mercenaries that he keeps about him; and there are others besides, an organized gang of witnesses, who do not openly force themselves upon you, but readily give a silent nod of assent to his lies. [I do not of course imagine that they make anything out of him, but there are some people, men of Athens, who are strangely prone to abase themselves towards the wealthy, to attend upon them, and to give witness in their favour.]
Ant.24; Plutarch, Marcus Antonius:
For straight, one Anaxenor, a player of the cithern, Xoutus, a player of the flute, Metrodorus a tumbler, and such a rabble of minstrels and fit ministers for the pleasures of Asia (who in fineness and flattery passed all the other plagues he brought with him out of Italy), all these flocked in his court, and bare the whole sway: and after that all went awry. For every one gave themselves to riot and excess, when they saw he delighted in it: and all Asia was like to the city Sophocles speaketh of in one of his tragedies: [plagues]Was full of sweet perfumes and pleasant songs,
With woeful weeping mingled there-amongs.
For in the city of Ephesus, women, attired as they go in the feasts and sacrifice of Bacchus, came out to meet him with such solemnities and ceremonies as are then used: with men and children disguised like