Al Maxey: Berean Spirit

All Maxey Berean Spirit says? "The synagogue was added to Temple system. It was conceived and created by MAN." The synagogue violated the Law of Silence and it was a sin. Jesus endorsed the sin. See Al Maxey's review of John Mark Hicks.

Therefore, we are authorized to add instrumental music?

Al Maxey Premise: While Jack is preparing his defense of the "law of silence" as a hermeneutical tool for establishing "authority," let me throw a "monkey wrench" into the works. I believe the entire synagogue system, and the participation of our Lord within it, speaks powerfully to this matter. I would ask Jack (and others) to please consider carefully the following thoughts.

Before looking at lots of background, let me say that the Qahal, synagogue or church in the wilderness was defined for the general population who were NEVER to come near either the Tabernacle or Temple. Both vocal and instrumental rejoicing were outlawed--if you need legalist to silence you in the presence of God's Word being taught "as it had been revealed" and never required a preacher:

The church #1577 ekklesia - assembly, called out ones, set apart ones, congregation; in Hebrew this word is #6951 qahal (kahal) - a "synagogue" (E. W. Bullinger, Commentary on Revelation, p. 165-166), an assemblage, congregation, company from the root #6950 qahal meaning specifically a coming together, an assembling, a convocation, congregation; this word is used mostly for religious purposes (see William Wilson's Old Testament Word Studies, p. 92)

The LXX uses the word ekklesia to translate the Hebrew qahal. Qahal means to call, to assemble, and the noun form means a congregation or assembly. Solomon is called koheleth the Preacher, translated by the LXX ekklesiastes. The earliest known occurrence of the word is found in Job 30:28, ‘I cried in the congregation’. In the books of the law, qahal is rendered by the Greek word sunagoge, showing that the synagogue is the beginning of the New Testament church. Stephen in his speech which ended in his martyrdom referred to the history of Israel, and dwells for considerable length upon the one great leader Moses, saying in Acts 7:38:

‘This is he, that was in the CHURCH in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sinai’.

The people of Israel, looked upon as ‘a called-out assembly’ were ‘the Church’ of that period.

10.15.06 I have posted a rebuttal of Al Maxey's Shouting above the silence. He makes the strange assumption that the Old Testament does not command the Synagogue. Because Jesus READ the Bible in the synagogue Al thinks this refutes the "law of silence" and gives authority for adding instrumental music. He makes the same strage error or denying that one could eat bread during Passover. You KILL the Passover and EAT the passover and Al misses the WHOLE concept. Click for Al Shouting above Direct Commands to harshly pass judgment on his betters.

Al Maxey is an elder and preacher at the Cuba Avenue Church of christ, Alamogordo, NM. He identifies the following absolute truth about the universal outlawing of music as worship as "Dorkism" or some such RACA word.

> God restated the Abrahamic Covenant to Israel at the foot of Mount Sinai. This had no mandatory sacrifices and no "church meetings." By no means did it have paid preachers. This was The Book of the Covenant and was a system of Grace. The first born males were the teachers.

> God allowed Satan to test Israel just as he does us. The people could not exist without a VISIBLE presence of the invisible God. So, they threw in their gold and "out jumped this golden calf." The worship is perfectly defined by their worship in Egypt. The women of note were prophetesses and led the women in often obscene rituals. Miriam would have been a prophetess of Hathor and she was BITTER and caused the women to escape with singing, dancing and music.

"Before the establishment of the kingdom under Saul, it was the women who, as in every young civilization, played a major part in the performance of music. Such figures as Miriam, Deborah, Jephthah's daughter, and the women hailing the young hero David have become almost archetypes of female musicians.

"Characteristic of all these cases is the familiar picture of a female chorus, dancing and singing, accompanied by frenzied drum-beating.

This is the scene known to the entire Near East, and not
"even the severe rule of Islam could wholly suppress this age-old practice." (Int Dict of the Bible, Music, p. 457).

> As a result, the Tabernale was radically changed and the common 'congregation' was quarantined on the penalty of death. Still, no one at that time dared to even make animal sacrifices with "music." The 613 tenets of the Law of Moses were given "because of transgression" through musical idolatry of the Egyptian triad.

> The people were now STRANGERS and could not enter into the Tabernacle. However, God's plan was that people learn His Laws. The ONLY occassion for an assembly of the people was for instruction and NEVER for worship.

> Stephen identifies the same self-pleasing rejoicing and says that God turned them over to worship the starry host. The synagogue is the commonly used word Qahal: when the Israelites synagogued in the wilderness it was ONLY for instruction or synagoguing. The assembly was the SYNAGOGUE or church in the wilderness.

> The ALARM or TRIUMPH OVER was the use of horns and twanging bowstrings to drive the enemy into panic or modern-day frenzy or anxiety hoping that they would turn coward and run. That is what happens when the musical sectarians attack with music: the effect is that of FIGHT, FLIGHT or SEXUAL SEEKING SALLY. God authorized them to use the trumpets like a "church bell" to call assembly. However, they could not "play instruments and make a joyful noise to the lord." EVERYONE understood that to be the TRIUMPH OVER which Psalm 41 prophesied of JUDAS whose "bag" was for carrying the mouthpieces of wind instruments.

> Al Maxey is wrong and is caught up into the cycle defined in the Book of Enoch and other accounts which says that once you are seduced by "music" which, the Bible agrees, was brought by Lucifer to "wholly seduce" Eve and "make Adam bow," you have fallen and you will spend the rest of your life trying to find people to join the merry band.

The Bible associates "music" with Satan, prostitutes, children and those sacrificing TYPES of Lord Jesus Christ. Yet, no singer or musician or preacher could enter into the Holy Place as a destructive type of the body or church of Christ. "Musicians" were warriors and were used by the king and commanders of the army to give glory to the earthly kingdom, king and temple. This condemnation is universal in the Bible and in contemporaneous literature which always associates music and musicians with the homosexual priests of the "nations" pagan, perverted "worship" using "rituals."

ALL ASSEMBLIES OF MASS GROUPS CREATES SPIRITUAL ANXIETY. That is why Jesus died to remove both the BURDEN and the BURDEN LADERS. Jesus invited the BURDEN LADEN (also meaning "an extra tax") to come to HIM in twos and threes (Paul said, "outside the city" or camp) to "come learn of ME." Paul understood the assembly to be the synagogue: there were no praise services in the synagogues. Therefore, we can INFER that the Christian synagogues had no praise service. If we cannot grasp that Paul said to SPEAK to one another with "that which is written."

THE ENEMY OF THE SPIRIT AND OF GOD IS RITUAL WORSHIP. The Pharisees spoke and prayed and collected BECAUSE they claimed to have a SUPERIOR CONNECTION TO GOD. Why else would one HIRE OUT to be THE authorative teacher usurping the role of the Living Word in the Written Word? It is NOT POSSIBLE to be a Biblical Pharisee without being a PROFESSIONAL "Pharisee [preacher-prayer], Scribe [sermon and song writer] or Hypocrite. The Hypocrite was a SECTARIAN group of the Pharisees along with the Scribes. They were singers, musicians or actors whose "night job" among the Greeks was male or female prostitutes:

Threskia worship of ANY RITUAL is derived from the musical Orpheus. Therefore, James defines pure threskia not in terms of rituals or ACTS. On the other hand James shows that the SILENCE demanded for the synagogue or school of the bible would silence anyone who did not glorify God "with that which is written." Rhetoricians, sOPHISts (serpents), singers and musicians performed the role of sorcery. Because anything they ADDED to what is written would prove them a parasite:

The 'unholy harlot' worship is identified when RITUALS are performed from silence such as music and preaching "that which is NOT written." Jesus died to build a SYNAGOGUE and not a pagan worship center. Jesus is our ONLY teacher and only when we SPEAK and we speak as the oracles of God. Paul insisted that faithful and qualified elders TEACH THAT WHICH HAS BEEN TAUGHT. That leaves no room for the unfaithful dogs slink in:

FINALLY, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. Phil 3:1

Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. Phil 3:2

For we are the circumcision,
........ which worship God in the spirit,
........ and rejoice in Christ Jesus,
........ and have no confidence in the flesh. Phil 3:3

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Phil 3:20

Politeuma (g4175) pol-it'-yoo-mah; from 4176; a community, i.e. (abstr.) citizenship (fig.): - conversation.

Oikuteyinau (g4176)pol-it-yoo'-om-ahee; mid. of a der. of 4177; to behave as a citizen (fig.): - let conversation be, live.

Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs,
........ that ye stand fast
........ in one spirit,
........ with one mind
........ striving together for
........... the faith of the gospel; Ph.1:27

OUTLAWING THE MUSIC JOHN CALLS SORCERY IN REVELATION 18

All musical and instrument terms speak of enchantment or sorcery: instruments are "machines for doing hard work." Most often the magicians or wizards sought to HEAR where God had not spoken. That is why God spoke INCLUSIVELY and EXCLUSIVELY.
Dt 18:9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

The Hebrew for "serpent" in Genesis 3:1 nachash which means to hiss, mutter or whisper as do enchanters. It also means in a secondary sense to divine, or enchant or mesmerize, as a snake often does before catching its prey. It also has the meaning to shine or sparkle, like bronze or copper. Some Scriptures also tell us that Satan has an extremely attractive appearance (see e.g. 2 Cor. 11:3, 14), and this Hebrew word therefore also conveys the meaning to fascinated bewitch. (Cp. Deut. 18:10-14).

Dt 18:10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

Divination:
H7081 qesem keh'-sem From H7080 ; a lot; also divination (including its fee), oracle:--(reward of) divination, divine sentence, witchcraft.
H7080 q�sam kaw-sam' A primitive root; properly to distribute, that is, determine by lot or magical scroll; by implication to divine:--divine (-r, -ation), prudent, soothsayer, use [divination].

Observer of times:
H6049 ‛�nan aw-nan' A primitive root; to cover; used only as denominative from H6051 , to cloud over; figuratively to act covertly, that is, practise magic, enchanter, Meonemin, observe (-r of) times, soothsayer, sorcerer.

David had these on his staff because he was abandoned to worship the starry host. "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).
Enchanter:
H5172 n�chash naw-khash' A primitive root; properly to hiss, that is, whisper a (magic) spell; generally to prognosticate:-- X certainly, divine, enchanter, (use) X enchantment, learn by experience, X indeed, diligently observe.
H5175 n�ch�sh naw-khawsh' From H5172 ; a snake (from its hiss):--serpent.

H3784 k�shaph kaw-shaf' A primitive root; properly to whisper a spell, that is, to inchant or practise magic:--sorcerer, (use) witch (-craft).

The only way to MARK those trying to SPEAK where God has been SILENT is defined by God for all times. Please note that the Spirit OF Christ spoke only through the prophets. All of the prophets radically condemn the sacrificial system and the MUSIC of the national "worship of the starry host" God had abandoned Israel to BECAUSE of musical idolatry.

Deut 18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto the
        and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

Jesus as "son" spoke only what He heard from the "father" who was within. Classical trinitarians define God as Father of the thought. When He speaks his wordS are defined as His Son. Therefore, not even Jesus Christ spoke form SILENCE.

Deut 18:19 And it shall come to pass,
        that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
Deut 18:20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name,
        which I have not commanded him to speak,
        or that shall speak in the name of other gods,
        even that prophet shall die.

Does Al Maxey think that he is a prophet? Superior to a prophet? Superior to Jesus Christ as the incarnated WORDS of the invisible, inaudible Deity?

Deut 18:21 And if thou say in thine heart,
        How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?

Note in reviewing Al Maxey's Shouting above the Silence, we noted that it was the Christian Church which defined the Law of Silence to mean that where God in Christ has not spoken then He gives ME the authority to decide for myself. After that we have a NEW Word of God. That means--based on Maxey's hostility--that YOU have no authority to hear a different message from Silence. H. Leo Boles who marks the end of any effort to work together with the Disciples (Christian church) that it was not silence but the Baptist "missionary society" introduced in 1949 which shut down any effort to "fellowship."

Deut 18:22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord,
        if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken,
        but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
God is NEVER silent about what HE wants from us. People look for LOOPHOLES because they are LEGALISTS and are not happy with the LOUD VOICE of God. Paul in silencing the diversities of the marketplace in Romans 14 defines the DIRECT COMMAND for the synagogue or ekklesia founded by Jesus Christ.

Rom 15:1 WE then that are strong
........... ought to bear the infirmities of the weak,
........... and not to please ourselves.

Rather than aggitate and drive away the infirm and OLD, the direct command is that as a SCHOOL of the Bible we are to BEAR the burdens of the weak.

The word PLEASE is to LIFT UP with AROUSAL SINGING to CARRY AWAY (heresy) people for THEIR OWN USES.

Rom 15:2 Let every one of us please his neighbour
........... for his good to edification.

The word means INSTRUCTION or EDUCATION. No one is "edified" by violating the direct command of Paul and the example of Jesus NOT to fall into the singing, dancing, sexaul ritual.

The DIRECT COMMAND is to teach our NEIGHBORS: not a FAMILY or COMMUNE.

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Phil 3:20

Politeuma (g4175) pol-it'-yoo-mah; from 4176; a community, i.e. (abstr.) citizenship (fig.): - conversation.

Rom 15:3 For even Christ pleased not himself;
........... but, as it is written,
........... The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

Reproaches are also an attempt to EXPOSE one's nakedness: real or virtual.

Cherphah (h2781) kher-paw'; from 2778; contumely, disgrace, the pudenda: - rebuke, reproach (-fully), shame.

Charaph (g2778) khaw-raf'; a prim. root; to pull off, i. e. (by impl.) to expose (as by stripping); spec. to betroth (as if a surrender)

Lu.7:3 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.

Arousing people with musical PLEASURING is making the naked: the "minister" gets his kicks on route 666 when he sees the ooohing and awing and body pumping.

If you are not illiterate that is a LAW against having musical sex as the meaning of IMpure religion. If you NEED a direct command not to expose your nakedness then you MAY be the more legalistic.

Jesus founded an EKKLESIA or SYNAGOGUE or SCHOOL of the Bible to give us REST from the spiritual anxiety created by religious rituals: performing sex but claiming that the "spirits" are HOLY and blaspheming God.

Rom 15:4 For
........... whatsoever things were written aforetime
........... were written for our learning,
........... that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures
........... might have hope

Jesus Christ is the "another Comforter" and the ONLY ONE. Paul claims that he COMFORTS us through the Scriptures.

Rom 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation
........... grant you to be likeminded one toward another
........... according to Christ Jesus:

ONLY THEN, can you be a "church of Christ" insteade of a COMMUNITY which always meant COMMUNE.

Rom 15:6 That ye may with
........... one mind and
........... one mouth
........... glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

There is a direct command defining how we praise God: we speak the songs and sermons of God in Jesus Christ and the prophets.
Charismatic (perverted--sexual) performance rituals SOW DISCORD with a high hand because too many of the "worship masters" have made it perfectly clear that they would prefer that the old people GET OUT.

Rom 15:7 Wherefore receive ye one another,
........... as Christ also received us, to the glory of God.

This is also the only way Christ Himself can "sing to the Gentiles" as church is TEACHING body and NOT a pagan worship center.

Most PhDuhs will say that GOD NEVER SPOKE on the meaning: therefore WE can make up our own. Jesus said that speaking ON OUR OWN proves that we are sons of the Devil.

A TRUE FAST on the Sabbath OUTLAWED "speaking your own words" because synagogue was to READ or REHEARSE the Word of God JUST as Paul commanded to Timothy.

If you think that God is SILENT then read 2 Cor 3. In all of his letters Paul defines the ekklesia or assembly similar to the synagogue which "had no praise service."

That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory,
........ to be strengthened with might
........ by his spirit
........ in the inner man; Ephesians 3:16

That Christ may dwell
........ in your hearts by faith;
........ that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, Ephesians 3:17

But I see another law in my members,
........ warring against the law of my mind,

and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin
........ which is in my members. Romans 7:23

O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me
........ from the body of this death? Romans 7:24

All who "see godliness as a means of financial gain" see the school of Christ as OCCUPATION. There ARE no professions in the church: only ministers who forsake all and GO into the world are worthy of the "daily dole of food" of the temple servant. That is why the Greek world defined rhetoricians, sOPHISts (serpents), singers, musicians and 'technocrats' as SORCERERS and therefore the PARASITES. Parasites were named after the obsolete servants in sacrificial rituals.

"Nor are these Thracian orgies, from which the word Worship (threskia) is said to be derived; nor rites and mysteries of Orpheus, whom the Greeks admired so much for his wisdom that they devised for him a lyre which draws all things by its music. Nor the tortures of Mithras

The word in the Bible is:

Threskos (g2357) thrace'-kos; prob. from the base of 2360; ceremonious in worship (as demonstrative), i.e. pious: - religious.

"If any one perchance thinks that we are speaking calumnies, let him take the books of the Thracian soothsayer (Orpheus the inventor of musical soothsaying), which you speak of as of divine antiquity;

and he will find that we are neither cunningly inventing anything,
nor seeking means to bring the holiness of the gods into ridicule,
and doing so: for we shall bring forward the very verses which the son of Calliope uttered in the Greek,
and published abroad in his songs to the human race through out all all ages." (Arnobius Against the Heathen, Ante-Nicene, VI, p. 499).

Paul equated speaking in tongues to blowing of trumpets as unclear signals of warfare. He said that we do not make war with CARNAL WEAPONS which are CARNAL INSTRUMENTS:

Mention is often made of the singing and dancing of the Thracians, especially of a martial kind. Xenophon (Anab. vi. 1. � 5, seq.) gives an account of a dance and combat performed by some Thracians, to celebrate the conclusion of a peace between the remnant of the 10,000 Greeks and the Paphlagonians:

they danced fully armed to the music of the flute, jumping up nimbly to a considerable height,
and fencing with their swords:

at last, one man struck another, to all appearance mortally and he fell as if [p. 1184] dead, though in reality not in the least injured, His antagonist then stripped off his armour, and went out singing the praises of Sitalces, while the other man was carried out like a corpse by his comrades (cf. Ib. vii. 3. � 32, seq.; Tac. Ann. iv. 47).

The primary "worship" word was conducting real or pretend warfare: the dueling harps:

Their music was rude and noisy. Strabo (x. p. 471) compares it to that of the Phrygians, whom, indeed, he regards as descended from the Thracians. Xenophon, in the passage last referred to,

says that they played on horns and on trumpets made of raw ox-hide.
Their worship of Dionysus and Cotytto was celebrated on mountain tops with loud instruments of music, shouting, and noises like the bellowing of cattle. (Strab. x. p. 470.)

Yet even lifeless things, either flute or harp, in producing a sound, if they do not produce a distinction in the tones, how will it be known what is played on the flute or on the harp? 1 Corinthians 14:7NAS

If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how will any one know what is played? 1 Cor 14:7

Of Thracia:

And ever on the watch from their place of prospect with its fair haven, often from many had they taken away their sweet return, consuming them with the waste desire; and suddenly to the heroes, too,

they sent forth from their lips a lily-like voice (opa leirion). And they were already about to cast from the ship the hawesers to the shore,

had not Thracian Orpheus, son of Oeagrus, stringing in his hands his Bistonian lyre (phorminx),

rung forth the hasty snatch of a rippling melody so that their ears might be filled with the sound of his twanging; and the lyre (phorminx) overcame the maidens' voice.

And the west wind and the sounding wave rushing astern bore the ship on; and the Sirens kept uttering their ceaseless song. (Translation: Seaton 1980)

They spoke a barbarian language, that is, one unintelligible to the Greeks, we must despair of being able to comprehend these accounts of the ancient Thracian minstrels, and of assigning them a place in the history of Grecian civilisation; since it is [p. 1181] manifest that at this early period, when there was scarcely any intercourse between different nations, or knowledge of foreign tongues,

poets who sang in an unintelligible language could not have had more influence on the mental development of the people than the twittering of birds.

If the Greek testimony associates music with warfare, sexuality and sorcery, and Paul uses the same language to define the SPEAKING in the tongues of Barbarians in Corinth, why isn't it LOGICAL to INFER that this supports the entire Biblical view and Secular writings about MUSIC AS WORSHIP?

If all of history associates RITUAL worship and a HIRED "interpreter of the gods" with men who are clearly types of SATAN, and Paul and Peter outlawing PRIVATE INTERPRETATION or further expounding, why is it a demonic INFERENCE to conclude that such "messengers of the gods" are now UNLAWFUL and eternal damaging to the SCHOOL OF CHRIST?

Paul says that a Jewish converts MUST worship in the PLACE of the spirit because OUTSIDE are dogs and sorcerers.

Ceremonial legalism speaks of EXTERNAL RITUALS where Pharisees change the Words of God and DO rituals such as "praying" or "preaching." God in Christ died to set us free: Paxil has "doing church ceremonies" as their best promoters because RELIGIONISTS cannot survive without MANUFACTURING "spiritual anxiety through religious rituals."

Jesus died so we can come aside to REST and "learn of me." Jesus never USED musical performers: in fact He cast them out more or less violently as one ejects DUNG. What can one INFER from that? Oh, I know, that was the OLDEN Jesus Who has been replaced by the Spirit. But the name of the Spirit and/or Father, Son and Spirit is Jehovah- Saves.

"Melody" produces the same SENSE OF ANXIETY one felt when he heard Apollo's (Abaddon, Apollyon) twanging bowstring and then the "singing" arrow aimed directly at one's literal heart.

How can sectarians INFER that that has no meaning?

There ARE NO MUSIC words associated with spiritual religion.

How MUST anyone who cares about people INFER that the Bible is FILLED with direct commands to make music. Yea, Max Lucado says that the Spirit is God's song writer and dance master!

The Bible condemns music it as Satanic beginning in heaven and the garden of Eden. The serpent was a MUSICAL ENCHANTER just as the serpent in Revelation is the sOPHISts, singers and musicans: just stinging people with deadly venom.

Why would anyone want to use THE LAW OF SILENCE and INFER that music is acceptable when he KNOWS--or should know--that he is deliberately sowing discord among the brethren?

Did you know that Paul said that we live, move and have our being in God: He is not far off that we have to send for a message. We LIVE in a three-dimensioned world and also in time. Paul said that we live in the SPIRITS or MINDS and we live in a FOURTH DIMENSIONED WORLD!

Therefore, it is heresy to claim to be able to assist you in worship--for a price, always for a price!

Paul was literate and taught enough to grasp that Jesus said that God only SEEKS those who worship in the new PLACE of a spirit made holy as it is devoted to the Truth.

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. 2 Cor 4:18

FOR we know that, if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2Co.5:1

But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Heb.9:11

Al, this says that Christ IS NOT the high priest over your house "made with human hands" for "worship by human hands."

Why can professional, performing priestcraft INFER that we MUST come to the hand-made Tabernacle to "worship" when our citizenship has been transferred into heaven?

Unlawful preachers who legalistically look for SILENCE to give them permission to sow discord and teach error are in a FOOD FIGHT with the same kind. It is the old shell game: the pea is not under EITHER institutional legalists.

The MADNES Paul identified in Corinth was always induced by the uncovered women prophesiers condemned in 11:5.

mustag�g-ia

II. mystical doctrine, Iamb.Myst.1.1; h� Chaldai�n (clanging brass)
III. divine worship, Just.Nov.58.

Chaldaios

I. a Chaldaean, Hdt., etc.
II. an astrologer, caster of nativities, Cic., etc.

THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 1Co.13:1

Chalkos (g5475) khal-kos'; perh. from 5465 through the idea of hollowing out as a vessel (this metal being chiefly used for that purpose); copper (the substance, or some implement or coin made of it): - brass, money.

The "familiar spirit" of the witch of Endor was a "musical instrument."

Owb (h178) obe; from the same as 1 (appar. through the idea of prattling a father's name); prop. a mumble, i. e. a water-skin (from its hollow sound); hence a necromancer (ventriloquist, as from a jar): - bottle, familiar spirit.

This has the same meaning as the harp:

Nebel (h5034) 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

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..

And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock. Na.3:6

A gazing stock is:

Raiy (h7210) ro-ee'; from 7200; sight, whether abstr. (vision) or concr. (a spectacle): - gazingstock, look to, (that) see (-th).

When the musical minstrels wanted to perform their religious and superstitious ritual over the dead girl, Jesus CAST THEM out "more or less violently" as one "casts out dung." In Athens the same city official regulated the flute-girls who were prostitutes, the cemetary and the dung heap.

Nabal (h5036) naw-bawl'; from 5034; stupid; wicked (espec. impious): - fool (-ish, -ish man, -ish woman), vile person.

Often associated with:

Magos Magian, one of a Median tribe, Hdt.1.101, Str. 15.3.1: hence, as belonging to this tribe,

2. one of the priests and wise men in Persia who interpreted dreams, Hdt.7.37, al., Arist.Fr. 36, Phoen.1.5, Ev.Matt.2.1.

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 1 Cor 1:20

Wise is the Sophist: the serpents of Revelation.

In your thoughts you will ponder the former terror: "Where is that chief officer? Where is the one who took the revenue? Where is the officer in charge of the towers?" Isa 33:18

Shaqal (h8254) shaw-kal'; a prim. root; to suspend or poise (espec. in trade): - pay, receive (-r), spend, * throughly, weigh.

And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. Zec.11:12

Why would you INFER that the Bible is silent about "the law of giving?" How can you use THE LAW OF SILENCE and and, when Paul said, "this is not a law" you INFER that Paul meant "This IS the law of giving."

3. enchanter, wizard, esp. in bad sense, impostor, charlatan, Heraclit.14, S.OT387, E.Or.1498 (lyr.), Pl.R.572e, Act.Ap.13.6, Vett. Val.74.17: also fem., Luc.Asin.4, AP 5.15 (Marc. Arg.).

A Chanter is such a wizard and because he has none of his pretended power he is a charlatan. The musical enchantr or serpent in the garden of Eden was a musical enchanter. Why would you INFER that the Bible is SILENT by associating music as the "carnal weapon" to bleed off worship due only to a Spirit God in the new PLACE of our human Spirit?

II. magos, on, as Adj., magical, magps techn�i prattein ti Philostr.VA1.2 ; kestou ph�neusa mag�tera AP5.120 (Phld.). (Opers. magus( 'Magian'.)

techn�

I. art, skill, craft in work, cunning of hand, esp. of metal-working, Od.; of a shipwright, Il.; of a soothsayer
2. art, craft, cunning, in bad sense, doli� t. Od.; in pl. arts, wiles, cunning devices

The music of harpists and musicians, flute players and trumpeters, will never be heard in you again. No workman (techne) of any trade will ever be found in you again. The sound of a millstone will never be heard in you again. Rev 18:22

How can you INFER that the religious performers and technocrats are really God's CHOSEN AGENTS of Change when He says that they are signs that the Babylon harlot worship has begun with the locusts (muses or performers) being resurrected by Apollo or Abbadon or Apollyon?

Similar Definition to the techne-crats:

Babul�n , �nos, h�, Babylon, Alc.Supp.16.10, etc.:--Babul�nioi , hoi, Babylonians, Hdt.1.77, etc., and Babul�nia , h�, Babylonia, Arist. Oec.1352b27:--also Babul�neus , e�s, ho, St.Byz.; fem. Babul�nis , idos, Nonn.D.40.303:--Adj. Babul�nios , a, on, Hdt.1.106, etc.; os, on, Arr.An.6.29.6; or Babul�niakos , �, on, Alex.308.

Theiaz� , (theios A) to be inspired, frenzied, hoposoi autous theiasantes ep�lpisan as many as made them hope by divinations, Th.8.1; th. kai theophoreitai is divinely inspired, Ph.1.479; hoposoi teletais etheiazon obtained inspiration through ritual, Philostr.Her.5.3.

Ppelpiz�

I. to buoy up with hope, to cheat with false hopes, Thuc.
II. intr. = elpiz�, Eur.

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. James 1:25

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this mans religion is vain. James 1:26

On the other hand, pure religion as related to what Jesus died to silence which was "creation of spiritual anxiety through religious rituals."

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. Jas 1:27

All of the clergy play the shell game: validating their role by making you guess which shell the pea is under. The TRUTH, dear dupe, is that the shell is under NEITHER.

MY brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. James 2:1

For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; Ja.2:2

God never changed the ASSEMBLY of the non-governmental people who were DISCIPLES at the synagogue even in the wilderness. The added Lord's Supper is still to show forth or to TEACH the death of Christ. Paul uses a synagogue word for the people who ASSEMBLE as opposed to the church house. Now, we have James using the word:

Sunagoge (g4864) soon-ag-o-gay'; from (the redupl. form of) 4863; an assemblage of persons; spec. a Jewish "synagogue" (the meeting or the place); by anal. a Christian church: - assembly, congregation, synagogue.

There was no praise service in the synagogue and there was none in the early church or ekklesia or synagogue any more than you would bring out the singy-clappy guys and dolls in county court or in a classroom.

What is the Doctrine of Christ according to Christ?
See Al Maxey and the Law of Silence
Read Al Maxey claiming NO authority for the fast. Thus proving that IMPROVISING was not condemned.
Al Maxey using the Synagogue and the law of silence to authorize instrumental music.
What is the Doctrine of Christ according to Christ?

Al also supports Fred Peatross who defines the Emerging Church of Christ quite identical to the methods and motives of all ancient paganism using music and modern witchcraft. These are tidbits of GRACE out of the Grace Centered Movement.

If you get nothing else please grasp that not among the Jews nor in the most vile pagan temples did the musicians enter into the Holy Places. Among the Jews, the Holy Place is a carnal type of the spiritual body of Christ. No Levitical musician could enter into this type of the church of Christ even to clean out the garbage.

The temple musicians in a "religious sense" (grouped with prostitutes in pagan religions) were in the court making a loud mocking noise during the sacrifice and burning of animals. They were part of a "like the nations" ritual permitted when the elders "fired God." Gad was the civil King's SEER or STARGAZER. Since they were abandoned to WORSHIP THE HEAVENLY HOST, the added INSTRUMENTS under the king and commanders of the Army was for CIVIL sacrifices ONLY.

In fulfilment of the prophetic type, it was prophesied in Psalm 41 and fulfilled in the Dead Sea Scroll translation that Judas and the military musicians would attempt to turn Jesus into a coward. Click for some examples.

Since Al probably also believes the heresy that Amos didn't condemn instrumental music but A BAD MENTAL ATTITUDE you may want to grasp that Israel was performing the WORSHIP OF THE STARRY HOST including Saturn (666). This was the "worship" to which God abandoned the Israelites because of MUSICAL IDOLATRY at Mount Sinai. Click Here.

The trumpets of God (as opposed to the Instruments of David for a like the nation's temple state) were SIGNAL INSTRUMENTS. Playing and making a joyful noise was the WARRIOR'S CHANT in all national armies.

And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly (SWARM) shall assemble (h3259) themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation (3259 synagogue). Nu. 10:3

But when the congregation (Qahal) is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm. Nu 10:7

The "alarm" was to play musical instruments and "make a joyful noise before the Lord." This was not worship but a BATTLE CRY. Therefore, it was not to be used on the "congregation" of God's people.

Ruwa (h7321) roo-ah'; a prim. root; to mar (espec. by breaking); fig. to split the ears (with sound), i. e. shout (for alarm or joy): - blow an alarm, cry (alarm, aloud, out), destroy, make a joyful noise, smart, shout (for joy), sound an alarm, triumph.

By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. Ps.41:11

"This is the word used in most English versions as a rendering of the New Testament's Greek word ekklesia. Ekklesia really means "a calling out", a meeting or a gathering. Ekklesia is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew qahal, which means an assembly or a congregation. Neither ekklesia nor qahal means a building."

Therefore, God still OUTLAWS most of what we do as PAGAN WORSHIP when the Ecclesia or Assembly was always for instruction: even the Lord's Supper is to PROCLAIM the death of Jesus.

It needs no proving that when instruments are played and the people are "taught" from sentimental or erotic praise songs the DELIBERATE EFFORT IS TO TRIUMPH OVER JESUS OR SILENCE HIM.

This LAW was never violated by faithful Jews: the people's congregation was LOCKED OUT of the temple when the loud instruments made a great crashing sound while the Levites encouraged and helped the priest slaughter and burn the TYPE OF LORD JESUS CHRIST but NOT in the holy places.

See Al Maxey on the authority of Bible silence and the instrument.

Click for the short course refuting Al's CONFIDENT boasting that he knows the Law and it says NOTHING about the synagogue. This table capsules the Spirit of Christ authorizing the synagogue and absolutely outlawying musical instrumenta and "making a joyful noise to the Lord." This was the War Chant: don't make war on God as did Judas and clergy.

Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. Hab 2:19

But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. Hab 2:20

Synagogue or church is School of the Bible and not a pagan worship center.

We say, "Not very Grace Centered." Wrong grasp of the Bible and therefore wrong conclusion.

We invite any Doctor of the Law to Explain why the Synagogue did not exist as Al Demands to make his conclusions valid that I am insane and you can make music.

We invite the deacon's daughter who exclaimed: "What a DORK!!" to tell me what she read.

We invite Al's elders at Cuba Avenue Church of Christ who "couldn't stop laughting" to point out why the Synagogue did not exist just because "Al told you so."

Read Al Maxey's definition of the non-instrumentalists as sectarians or heretics.

Al Maxey and Instrumental Music neither commanded nor condemned.

Posted to BereanSpirit on Monday, October 16, 2000

Al Maxey: While Jack is preparing his defense of the "law of silence" as a hermeneutical tool for establishing "authority," let me throw a "monkey wrench" into the works. I believe the entire synagogue system, and the participation of our Lord within it, speaks powerfully to this matter. I would ask Jack (and others) to please consider carefully the following thoughts.

The guilt clause insists on making the one shot in the heart explain that he is NOT guilty for his own murder. Therefore, the Grace Centered crew delight in making the victim into the attacker: Remember that Elijah the prophet of God fought the musical prophets with the WORD of God but the Jezebel crew labelled him The Troubler in Israel.

It is a fact that the defenders of instrumental music to worship a Spirit God invented the LAW OF SILENCE. Al's intention is to show that since there is no law against music then it is ok. It reads something like this:

God hath not said "thou shalt not play Rock and Roll as worship." Therefore, we are legalistically justified in playing Rock and Roll. This is such a powerful law that we can sow discord and steal the "church houses of widows."

Al wants Jack to justify why Al uses the LAW OF SILENCE and why he sows the discord. This old dodge was invented by Adam.

Clement of Alexandria

Now their assertion is reduced to absurdity, if they shall say that the cause of the wound is not the dart, but the shield, which did not prevent the dart from passing through;

and if they blame not the thief, but the man who did not prevent the theft.

what we assert to have taken place in the theft, is not a cause at all;
but that what prevents is involved in the accusation of being a cause.

Al's logic lets him teach that those who have used the Biblical text to TEACH one another for 2,000 years actually SOW DISCORD by resisting the thief stealing their property. John Calvin notes that if the SIN of sowing discord to add instruments is old enough then it expires.

Thereafter, anyone who refuses to endorse and participate with those who have a panic feeling about holding onto their ill gotten freedom and property are guilty of sowing discord. To fall into the trap would be to endorse the evil which has not become less Biblical, divisive and Word-silencing over the years. The church buildings stolen and being stolen as we write are stolen property and it will never cease being stolen property in the hands of those who relay on GRACE to let them keep their stuff.

Al Maxey: There is no question but what the synagogue, and the activities associated with it, were an "innovation" or addition of men.

By-the-way, I'm using this term "innovation" in a neutral sense here -- I'm not suggesting it was either good or bad, merely that it was not "ordained of God" via the Law of Moses or the inspired OT documents.

No, that is not the truth. Al and all preachers need to become Old Testament literate.

We will show that the "synagogue" or assembly of the congregation was commanded, that the common people were to be gathered only for instruction and that God absolutely outlawed "sounding instruments and making a joyful noise before the Lord" when He was speaking. This was never music but the Israelite 'battle cry' and was not to be used against the people because it would absolutely destroy the purpose for the synagoguing: instruction from God. They used it on Jesus just as prophesied in Psalm 41.

Al Maxey: In other words, the Scriptures are completely "silent" with respect to this "synagogue system."

(Personally, I don't think there is anything at all wrong with the synagogue system, just for the record.)

No, that is not the truth. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew and Aramaic. Therefore, the READING of the word would often require someone OVERSEEING to make sure that the meaning was conveyed. Both ekklesia and synagogue are borrow words from the Greek. Therefore, if we don't see the word SYNAGOGUE too often it is because the Hebrew had many other words to describe an assembly. An assembly is a synagogue, ekklesia, church or under an oak tree where the document was posted by Aaron.

A synagogue is an ekklesia and they both simply mean ASSEMBLY. The word SYNAGOGUE is A GREEK WORD and we do not find it often in the HEBREW text. Make sense? However, in the Greek version the word is EKKLESIA. Jesus said to COME LEARN OF ME. When they assembled or synagogued in Acts 20:7 paul DID NOT preach but DIALOGED. The proper synagogue involved READING the word "as it has been taught" says Paul to the elders--not to the preachers. People prayed their own prayers except the formal READING of a prayer hymn.

The meaning of RESTORATION has T. Campbell defining CHURCH as a school of Christ and WORSHIP as reading and dialoging the WORD. Singing was PSALMS until A. Campbell and others published SONG BOOKS which was about like publishing a self-composed bible.

The word for synagogue in Psalm 74 would NOT be alone if all of the Old Testament was in GREEK.

Mowed (h4150) mo-ade'; ormoed, mo-ade'; or (fem.) mowadah (2 Chron. 8:13), mo-aw-daw'; from 3259; prop. an appointment, i. e. a fixed time or season; spec. a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand): - appointed (sign, time), (place of, solemn) assembly, congregation, (set, solemn) feast, (appointed, due) season, solemn (-ity), synagogue, (set) time (appointed)

The silver trumpets were to CALL ASSEMBLY but not for MUSIC or ALARM.

And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. Num 10:3

To assembly is:

Edah (h5712) ay-daw'; fem. of 5707 in the orig. sense of fixture; a stated assemblage (spec. a concourse, or gen. a family or crowd: - assembly, company, congregation, multitude, people, swarm.

The assembly is:

Mowed (h4150) which is translated SYNAGOGUE in Psalm 74.

And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, Deut 31:10

Solemnity is Mowed (h4150) or synagogue

When ALL Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. Deut 31:11

And throughout the land forever:

Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within THY gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law: Deut 31:12

GATHER IS: Qahal (h6950) kaw-hal'; a prim. root; to convoke: - assemble (selves) (together), gather (selves) together).

This was the GATHERING in the wilderness where the ALARM or playing the trumpets and making a joyful noise was OUTLAWED because the assembly or synagogue was always for INSTRUCTION.

And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. Deut 31:13

This DEFINES the meaning of worship and BURNING ANIMALS was never defined as the SUNDAY SERVICE worship while the synagogue was like WEDNESDAY night. The SYNAGOGUE was always in UTTER OPPOSITION to the temple rituals which were LIKE THE NATIONS and not spiritual worship.

When "scholars" claim that the synagogue was invented in Babylon they have reference to the GREAT SYNAGOGUE convened in Babylon as well as to the more organized INSTITUTIONALIZED system of building houses for reading the Word, public prayer, higher education where the scholars could be found at the "building," the function of a bank and as a LAW COURT. By the time of Christ this included compulsory education beginning at about aged 5.

Paul never used the word CHURCH: he used the word ekklesia. When people GATHER or ASSEMBLY it was for GIVING HEED TO THE WORD and individual prayers. Singing UTTERLY FAILED if it did not mean to TEACH the inspired Biblical text. Even the Lord's Supper was to show forth or TEACH the death of Christ.

ANYTHING you add to that diminishes the role of the gathering (synagogue or ekklesia and NEVER church).

Isaiah 58 explains modern CHURCH and why it rarely works. To those DAILY SEEKING to know God's Ways, here was part of the DIRECT COMMAND:

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

And Jesus would be proud that Al agrees with His endorsement of the teaching or rather reading of the Word but against any collections or prayer or "praise services." Rabbinic law actually made it illegal to do what Al and the preacher boys do each week.

"After each verse an Aramaic rendering was given by an interpreter, who in Palestine was bound NOT to use a written translation and not to allegorize" (The New Shaff-Herzog, Ency., p. 215).

Preaching, therefore was translating and explaining the text as, and when needed, it was being read "as it had been delivered to them." Even a boy student could READ the word which is Pauls unique worship word. However, the OVERSEER was not county boss; he stood over the reader to make sure that he did not make ANY mistake in "teaching the Word as it has been taught." This might have to be translated or discussed if the "students" or disciples which Jesus accepted had a question. That is why Paul said that the women should not ask questions during the reading.

Paul lines up against Al and crew by insisting that the Word made more sure by Jesus is not subject to "private interpretation." That means that it is a violation of a direct command of Scripture to sell yourself to "further expound" that which has been expounded.

John Calvin: But is it not altogether at variance with reason that the ploughing oxen should starve, and the lazy asses be fed? They will say, however, that they serve at the altar. I answer, that the priests under the law deserved maintenance, by ministering at an altar;

but that, as Paul declares, the case under the New Testament is different.

Al would not be happy about Jesus' comments about the professionals clustered around the synagogue trying to collect money from widows.

People always assuredly always worshiped "in spirit" but never with music.

One "advanced degreer" when asked about a course in Isaiah responded: "No, they didn't offer that when I went through." And I will bet that those who think that the Bible is silent have never read Amos or Job or Isaiah or Ezekiel, or about the king/qeen of Tyre and the king/queen of Babylon and the end-time king/queen Babylon Towers of Babylon where we first see the musical worship teams.