Prophethesses and instrumental music: Charles Dailey Prophethesses and instrumental music: Charles Dailey. Not aware of the New Covenant did the Christians continued with Instrumental music? No. The common Jewish "congregation" never worshipped by singing with instrumental accompaniment.
> David Faust at FHU Number One. David uses the standard fare for the NACC bent on sowing discord under the ploy of UNITING something which never existes. When churches of Christ denies that it was part of the Disciples, the Christian church was still a decade in the future before secting out of the Disciples. David repeats the common proof text while ignoring the story line. The first article will deal with the fact that God PROMISED David a Tabernacle but Solomon built Him a House but God does not live in houses. The loud music when the Tabernacle fell and the Ark was put away caused God's glory to be manifested: this meant HANDS OFF, you will never ever come into the reach of my Word and my Grace under the Mercy Seat. Of course those sowing discord have God engaging in a virtual orgy.
> Number Two deals with the regular use The songs of Accent and of Psalm 87 as prophecy that God prophesied instruments in the church. This is supposedly validated by Hebrews 12. Fact is, the going in processional hymns points to Isaiah 30 where God promises that all of those nations seduced from His Word by wind, string and percussion instruments will be driven into Topheth as a type of Hell to the beat of these same instruments.
See our review of Charles Daily Part One
Part Two: you are here
More Data on Dailey's musical prophesying
See our collection of resources about DEVIL WORSHIP
And a similar Serpent WorshipSee the background to prophesying or speaking in tongues at Corinth
To that end, Charles Daily wrote, and we review respectfully,
A SCRIPTURAL ANALYSIS OF INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC IN WORSHIP Charles Dailey: Even in Jesus' time the instruments were common. One of the outstanding authorities on life in the New Testament times is the man who converted from Judaism at twenty-one and became a priest in the church of England, Alfred Edersheim, PhD. He wrote The Temple, Its Ministry and Its Services. He described the Temple of Herod with these words:
The music of the Temple owed its origin to David, who was not only a poet and a music composer, but who also invented musical, instruments especially the ten string Nevel or lute. From the Book of Chronicles we know how fully this part of the service was cultivated, although the statement of Josephus, that Solomon had provided forty thousand harps and lutes, and two hundred thousand silver trumpets, is evidently a gross exaggeration. The Rabbis enumerate thirty-six different instruments, of which only fifteen are mentioned in the Bible, and of these five in the Pentateuch. (Page 78)
These supplied King Solomon's Music Grove. The valley was Topheth named after the tambourine. It became a symbol of HELL where the king of Babylon along with his HARPS and HARPISTS would burn and rot on a bed of MAGGOTS.
You can read Edersheim here and not get fooled by Charles. This was a civil-state ritual and the common people did not attend. There were representatives from the tribes but NOT the congregation.
Properly speaking, the real service of praise in the Temple was only with the voice.
This is often laid down as a principle by the Rabbis.What instrumental music there was, served only to accompany and sustain the song.
Accordingly, none other than Levites might act as choristers, while other distinguished Israelites were allowed to take part in the instrumental music.As usual, we just don't quote fully! The evidence is that the harps came from Egypt along with idolatrous wives. If we look to the LAW to understand Paul's prohibiting outspoken and NON-SEDENTARY women we can look to Miriam and these women who utterly corrupted Israel.
THAT GIVES AID AND COMFORT TO THE MUSICAL MOCKING OF THE SACRIFICIAL MUSIANS.
Click to see Adam Clark and other notes on Amos:
As the trumpets were to be blown by the priests only, the sons of Aaron,
there were only two, because there were only two such persons to use them at this time, Eleazar and Ithamar.
In the time of Joshua there were seven trumpets used by the priests, but these were made, according to our text, of rams' horns, Josh. vi. 4.In the time of Solomon, when the priests had greatly increased, there were 120 priests sounding with trumpets, 2 Chron. v. 12.Solomon's wives brought ten thousand harps from Egypt."
The trumpets or sophars or ram's horns were all tuned to a single note by the priests. Notching or drilling holes (polluting them) set the tone and no one could alter them. At the dedication of the temple 120 horns blew a continuous blast in unison: this was NOT music. Again, we need to warn about people using APOSTASY as the approved example for sowing discord.
"not before David's time do professional musicians appear in the Bible. From where did they come? Considering the apparent connection of professional musicians with the institution of Monarcy, we must bear in mind that in the neighboring countries, Egypt and Assyria, the professional musician was an old and familiar figure. It seems that the midrash alludes to an ancient tradition when it relates that King Solomon's Egyptian wife, daughter of the Pharaoh, carried in her dowry a thousand foreign instruments. Yet an instrument is of no use without a musician able to play it.
Hence, we may assume that the systematic import and subsequent training of professional musicians took place in the era of David and Solomon." (Int Dict of the Bible, Music, p. 457).
"The trained musicians which eventually appear around the time of David and Solomon mark a distinctive change in the history of Jewish music. Before this time much of the music was made by women." (Zondervan Pict., Music p. 313).
All ancient priesthoods were plagued with effeminacy or worse and therefore the women's instruments are taken into the service of their "gods."
Edersheim did not believe that the music owed its origin to God who commanded David. Another writer notes that:
"When Solomon became king he sat about making a name for himself. Henceforth the watchword was 'Solomon in all his glory' while the covenant of brothers was displaced by the corvée, the enslavement of brothers. What a marvelous prospect appeared for Israel in the Davidic empire! But Solomon's kingdom marked the beginning of the end of what was left of the tribal union; it paved the way for ruin. Perhaps the way of empire was not for Israel, the people of God." (Myers, Invitation to The Old Testament, p. 86).
That is the meaning of a restored priesthood and "Levitical Musicians" denouncing the LAITY as less than competent.
Yes, but before he later said he before said:
The flute (or reed pipe) was played in the Temple on twelve special festivities. *
* The flute was used in Alexandria to accompany the hymns at the love feasts of the early Christians, up to the year 190, when Clement of Alexandria introduced the harp in its place.
These were: the day of killing the first, and that of killing the second Passover, the first day of unleavened bread, Pentecost, and the eight days of the Feast of Tabernacles.
In the synagogues out of Jerusalem the Shophar alone was blown at the New Year, and on fast-days only trumpets. Click Here for more on Edersheim
Later, Edersheim says,
Quite in accordance with the social character of these feasts, the flute was also used by the festive pilgrim bands on their journey to Jerusalem, to accompany the "Psalms of Degrees," or rather of "Ascent," sung on such occasions.
It was also customary to play it at marriage feasts and at funerals for according to Rabbinical law every Jew was bound to provide at least two flutes and one mourning woman at the funeral of his wife. In the Temple, not less than two nor more than twelve flutes were allowed, and the melody was on such occasions to close with a note of one flute alone. (Page 80)
But Jesus cast them out LIKE DUNG.
You will note that the the following word can be translated to take your inheritance (prune your vines), play the flute, pollute or prostitute:
Chalal (h2490) khaw-lal'; a prim. root [comp. 2470]; prop. to bore, i. e. (by impl.) to wound, to dissolve; fig. to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an "opening wedge"); 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.
The PRAISE word is most often used of "making self vile" as in the case of David:
Halal (h1984) haw-lal'; a prim. root; to be clear (orig. of sound, but usually of color); to shine; hence to make a show, to boast; and thus to be (clamorously) foolish; to rave; causat. to celebrate; also to stultify: - (make) boast (self), celebrate, commend, (deal, make), fool (- ish, -ly), glory, give [light], be (make, feign self) mad (against), give in marriage, [sing, be worthy of] praise, rage, renowned, shine.
The musical words are the source of LUCIFER the "singing and harp-playing prostitute":
Heylel (h1966) hay-lale'; from 1984 (in the sense of brightness); the morning-star: - lucifer.
Charles Dailey: Later, Edersheim says,
Quite in accordance with the social character of these feasts, the flute was also used by the festive pilgrim bands on their journey to Jerusalem, to accompany the "Psalms of Degrees," or rather of "Ascent," sung on such occasions. It was also customary to play it at marriage feasts and at funerals for according to Rabbinical law every Jew was bound to provide at least two flutes and one mourning woman at the funeral of his wife. In the Temple, not less than two nor more than twelve flutes were allowed, and the melody was on such occasions to close with a note of one flute alone. (Page 80)
I have pointed out that one of the POPULAR processionals was going up to Jerusalem to the sound of music. Their purpose included burning infants in the red hoot arms of Molech to whom God had abandoned them because of the TRANSGRESSION of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. God lumps all of the nations together to PROVE that they, too, would be destroyed by God to the BEAT of instrumental music. See Isaiah 30.
Secondly, when Jesus was to heal the young girl He CAST OUT the musical minstrels (singers, flute players) more or less violently as one CASTS OUT DUNG. This is because the flute-girls were usually prostitutes under the same city official who regulated cemetaries, prostitutes and dung heaps. The second MARK is that the sacrificial "musicians" served in the midst of the cry of innocent animals, blood, burning flesh and DUNG.
Thirdly, when He returns most will be involved in MARRYING AND GIVING IN MARRIAGE.
Halal (h194) haw-lal'; a prim. root; to be clear (orig. of sound, but usually of color); to shine; hence to make a show, to boast; and thus to be (clamorously) foolish; to rave; causat. to celebrate; also to stultify: - (make) boast (self), celebrate, commend, (deal, make), fool (- ish, -ly), glory, give [light], be (make, feign self) mad (against), give in marriage, [sing, be worthy of] praise, rage, renowned, shine.
Charles Dailey: Now I have read that passage to underscore the fact that instruments of music were used in Herod's Temple and were part of Jewish national life. Each and every Jew connected instrumental accompaniment with his singing to God and about God. Their Scriptures taught them that singing was often accompanied.
This is why perhaps Jesus declared that the temple would be destroyed and obliterated for the third and last time. God has come to live in the hearts of individual believers.
On the other hand, the temple musicians were under the KING and the COMMANDERS OF THE ARMY and not the priests. The temple was a "national shrine" for the king and clergy. When animals were to be burned the loud sounding warned people to get on their face or get out: the gates were closed to the common people because of the MUSICAL IDOLATRY at Mount Sinai.
Furthermore, not in Jerusalem nor in the vilest pagan temple did any singer, musician or preacher ever enter into the holy precincts except as the Abomination of Desolation. The singers served the priests during the slaughter of innocent animals and their burning IN THE COURTS and never in the holy places.
The Holy Place was a carnal type of the body or Church of Christ: no singer or player could enter on the penalty of death even to clean out the garbage when Hezekiah cleansed the temple. See the facts about Amos to see that the singers or musicians could NEVER enter into the Holy Place as a carnal type of the body of Christ or into the Most Holy place EVEN TO CLEAN OUT GARBAGE.
All of the Old Testament passages on instrumental music have to do with women, camp followers, dedicatory or purification ceremonies in connection with animal sacrifices or purely festive occasions. Without Jerusalem and the Temple and animal sacrifices, instrumental music lost its reason for existance and ceased.
AFTER these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him. Jn 7:1
Now the Jews feast of tabernacles was at hand. Jn 7:2
His brethren (brothers) therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest. Jn 7:3
For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew (seek publicity, shine) thyself to the world. Jn 7:4
For neither did his brethren believe in him. Jn 7:5
The Jew's Feast of Tabernacles had degenerated into a giant, Jubilee-like festival where clergy and laiety alike declared their victory over God. There were musical contests, dancing contests, drinking, and even the elders got into the act. Those who won the contest would, in a modern sense, get on the lecture circuit as men of note. Then as now, those who knew the least but said it best were the highest paid men in the Roman empire. Click Here for some details.
"Today, this music and dance festival is understood as the
one remnant of the old Canaanite fertility rituals, which, in the monotheistic pseudomorphosis of the temple ceremonies, was to ensure an abundant crop of plants, animals, and even human beings." ... "
This was perhaps the only occasion where popular music-making was allowed to mix with the otherwise sternly guarded
prerogative of Levitical music. Consequently, secular, superstitious, even popular licentious elements were here introduced in the performance of the temple's liturgical music." (International Dictionary of the Bible, p. 463, Abingdon).
UNLESS YOU WANT TO CLAIM TO BE OF THE TRIBE OF LEVI AND PROMOTE LICENTIOUS "WORSHIP SERVICES" YOU HAD BETTER NOT LISTEN TO THE CLERGY.
Saw some bumping, grinding and rap on TV "worship" yesterday!
Because the brothers of Jesus were secular and carnal they could go to such a festival and it just didn't matter: go get it, Jesus says:
Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready. Jn 7:6
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil. Jn 7:7
Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come. Jn 7:8
Jesus knew that while they were enjoying Charles Dailey's sexual festivals they were--at the same time--plotting His murder.
Those who turn to musical "worship" know that they are KILLING the songs and sermons of Jesus Christ. Why else CHARGE for the free water of the Word?
If the Bible-empty lecturers are applauded you can have the word of Jesus for it: they are not speaking the truth.
After the pagan rituals were over, about half way through the week, Jesus made Himself known and taught as the musical clergy sought to murder Him. Jesus would be hated because He would denounce the rituals of entertainment as "children playing musical game" or looking for John who as a prophet MUST be homosexual: Jesus said that John did NOT wear the soft clothing of the king's CATAMITE. That will always get you literally or spiritually murdered.
The clergy also hated Him because He didn't "conference" with them to steal words one from another. That is, He didn't need the glory of the clan. We noted that Zechariah, who prophesied that Jesus or Jehovah- Saves would sit on the throne as both KING and PRIESTS "and there will be harmony between them both," also proiphesied of the end of prophesiers who were linked to bowing to baal. We also noted above that Peter warned about private interpretation which was further expounding. Jesus puts the MARK on further prophesying:
He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. Jn 7:18
Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me? Jn 7:19
The major event of these clergy Jews "who took away the key to knowledge" was the Jubilee-like festival of musical fertility rituals. Jesus, who is the Spirit of the Prophets (1Pe 1:11), knew that that the Law specifically outlawed musical shouting for joy during the assembly of the congregation:
But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm. Nu 10:7
The gathering or assemblying was the Qahal or synagogue or "church in the wilderness."
Did you notice that Lord Jesus Christ did no choose a single "man of the cloth" from the Temple clergy? Not one man from the "Rabinnic School of Popular Preaching." Note one official Levite. Was this a deliberate repudiation of the degenerated Jewish worship? We think so:
"Neither the gospels nor the epistolary literature display
any particular interest in the ritual and the liturgy of the temple.
It might even be said that the apostles considered the institution of the temple
........... as a panel for religious disputation at best,
........... as a seat of corruption at worst.They all came from the synagogue and were at home there.
They had no use for hierarchial traditions and were, in this respect at least, in accord with the Pharisees, opposed to the ruling class of the Sadducees, who dominated the temple.
Indeed, all evidence points to the chant and music of the primitive church as practically identical with the customs and traditions of the synagogue." (International Dictionary of the Bible, p. 466).
"The tabulation of musical passages "contains a rather disproportionate number of metaphorical sentences,
........... where music or its instruments
........... are not to be understood literally but are used as similies or rhetorical figures.The most celebrated of these poetical passages is Paul's glorification of love in I Cor. 13." (Interpreter's Dict of the Bible, Music, p. 466).
Is this what Paul meant when he placed both the SINGING and MELODY in the heart or mind? Philo speaks about spiritual singing and declares that YOU cannot praise God with YOUR words.
Charles Dailey: They read such statements as 1 Chronicles 23:5:
Four thousand are to be gatekeepers and four thousand are to praise the LORD with the musical instruments I have provided for that purpose." (1 Chronicles 23:5 NIV)
What would make a man who was living at Capernaum in 30 A.D. anti-instrumental or even non-instrumental. Who or what would give him that impression?
Why, Charles go to it if you want to rebuild the TEMPLE which was "like the nations" and built by Hiram the architect of Tyre whose king was a type of LUCIFER called the 'singing and harp-playing prostitute." The Levitical "musicians" were warriors. They performed during civil-religious rituals such as dedication and purification of temples and people always accompanied by animal sacrifices.
David [king], together with the commanders of the army, set apart some of the sons of Asaph, Heman and Jeduthun for the ministry of prophesying, accompanied by harps, lyres and cymbals. Here is the list of the men who performed this service: 1Chr.25:1
Historically, the evidence is that the country was OVERFLOWING by people making a living WITH musical instruments. They were always prostitutes or Sodomites if they were PROFESSIONAL. No exception to the rule. With all of those singers and instrumentalists why is it that Jesus didn't SCOOP them up to ENHANCE His preaching? Why is his STORY repudiating the PLAY of the Dionysus "singers and dancers?" Why does He CAST OUT "more or less violently" the musical minstrels "as one ejects Dung?" Why would he compromise MUSIC if the temple had thousands of expensive harps which would get BURNED UP in the "hell" which was named after Topheth the once "king's music grove?" With all of those trained Levitical Warrior Musicians why do we not find ONE who is converted and USED on the lecture circuit.
What would give anyone the generic knowledge to understand PERFORMANCE MUSIC to be "drugs, sex and rock and roll?" Why would people understand that THEATRICAL PERFORMERS would say "probably homosexual?" Not all dress designers are homosexual but what is the first thing that comes into your mind?
Charles Dailey: It would take a very specific authorization from the inspired leaders to stop using instruments for a first century Christian at Jerusalem to quit doing what he had always done and his fathers had done for centuries. It required just such a prohibition for Christians to stop their reliance on the feasts. There was no similar comment about the use of instruments.
Well, any school kid would grasp that the instruments had validity ONLY to serve the priests where SERVE means "hard bondage" with a word much like ABADDON. They understood that this was ONLY in Canaan, only in Jerusalem and only in connection with animal sacrifices at the temple. They were so convinced that they dared not add instruments until about the year 1815 and even then hired a Gentil organist because playing on the SABBATH was not lawful.
We just told you that Edersheim and the inspired Bible tells you that if you are NOT of the tribe of Levi and OF certain families and you tried to lead the common, non-clergy people into Discipleship then you would have been executed. I suspect that with DNA it might be possible to track down some Levites these days.
We repeat: the NON-CLERGY had NEVER worshipped by singing with instrumental accompaniment. Charles Dailey is just wrong about EVERYONE being addicted to MUSIC. And we have given you some Old Testament types, the examples of Jesus, the direct comman of Paul, the warning about the musical holy whore in Revelation and all of church history to prove that Charles is getting a latter-day revelation.
If you will survey the Bible you will see that instrumental music, in a religious sense was used in more of a civil sense. It was connected to the slowly evolving temple rituals during animal sacrifices for dedicatory or purification ceremonies only. The temple and the kingdom were not God's choice. Therefore, this history is a history of a people having rejected the theocratic rule of God so that they could triumph over others and worship like the nations. You may look at my survey by Clicking Here.
If ONE PROOF example is removed from David by perhaps 300 years then where does Charles get all of that MUSICAL WORHIP?
I haven't been able to find one example of one Christian playing one flute in one Synagogue or the temple. The Synagogue specificially excluded instruments for worship. And singing, "what little there was," was chanting Biblical passages and often, like Deborah, "at the places of watering" or the well or oasis and not "in church."
Furthermore, I have not been able to find one Christian participating in the Feast of Tabernacles which had degenerated into an ancient "fertility ritual" with lots of music, dancing and carnal men trying to become "men of note." The unbelieving brothers of Jesus wanted Him to go up to get on the "lecture circuit" but He refused to go up immediately because it would endorse the musical festival and the musical Jews would be "praising the Lord" and trying to find Him to kill Him.
Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; Psa 149:6
The best records fail to show any musical instruments in the temple of Herod although they were played in and around the courts and on the steps. Steps, by the way were forbidden to the priests whose nakedness might be exposed. No carved anything was the law. Josephus warns that the Levite singers "wearing linen garments" in the PRIESTLY sense rather than "hard bondage service" HAD destroyed the nation once (Ezekiel 40f) and were trying to do it again for their own glory.
Charles Dailey: Now you came to Pentecost in AD 30 and heard the apostles proclaim Jesus as the Messiah. You said, "That's right, he is the Messiah. We saw him perform miracles. We saw him heal the sick." He is the Christ and so you accepted Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah, the One that the whole nation had been looking for.
You were happy about this and you sang with the brethren. How did you sing? Did you sing vocal only?
Or, did you sing as the brethren had been singing, as the Jews had been singing -- for centuries?
Did you sing accompanied with mechanical instrument?Duh? Can't find that in Scripture! If I remember Romans 15 has Paul say speak with ONE MIND and ONE MOUTH that which is written. In Ephesians and Colossians the direct command was to SPEAK which was the ONLY practice the non clergy had ever practiced. Both ODEING and MELODY are highly destructive words which create the spiritual anxiety Jesus died to remove. This is why scholars understood that BOTH the singing and the melody (or with grace) was to be IN THE HEART and directed to God.
"The strict order of the Church Fathers that only one instrument should be employed, i.e., the human voice, has been observed in the Syriac, the Jacobite, the Nestorian, and the Greek churches to the present day. So also the synagogue did not use any instrument in the services up to 1810, in which year the organ was introduced in Seesen, Germany" (Idelsohn, See the Synagogue).
Even so, they hired a Gentile organist because they understood that no Jew could contaminate himself.
Charles Dailey: The letter of James was probably the first canonical New Testament book written. I date it at AD 47 or 17 years after Pentecost. How would the Jewish brethren have understood James 5:13?
Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. (James 5:13 NIV)
Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: Ja 5:14
How about this one? Is this a legalistic act of worship or Ceremonial Legalism?
GO to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Jas 5:1
It is elementary that this was NOT IN THE ASSEMBLY or the sick person would not have called for the elders!
In my version it says is ANY ONE of you in trouble then pray. How about the guy next to you who is HAPPY, is he to SING while you are praying? Does the rich man do a WEEPING AND HOWLING act of worship. Is the SINGER supposed to SING and PLAY at the same time? If he is really happy he will undoubtedly want to blow a trumpet or a Jubilee. But, be sure that while he is singing and playing while the other guy is praying or weeping you MUST be sure that he DOES NOT use a plectrum because PSALLO specificially rejects it. He cannot blow a flute because you cannot PLUCK a flut with your fingers. He cannot play the cymbals (meaning locusts) because you cannot PLUCK cymbals with your FINGERS. He cannot play the organ, piano or beat on wood blocks.
If they are IN CHURCH why would they have to call for the elders to pray over him? Well, you see how ceremonial legalism gets you into trouble.
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. James 5:10
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. James 5:11
But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation. James 5:12
I don't think James is defining church. Paul speaks of the gathering or assembly and uses a form of the word Synagogue.
Charles Dailey: For his word praise, James selected the same Greek word psallo that the translators of the Greek Old Testament selected to translate zamar, the profoundly instrumental word for singing in the Old Testament. It appears 36 times. How would the Jewish readers of James purge the word of its inherent instrumentation?
The word NEVER meant to make music: it simply means to PULL with the fingers and NOT WITH THE PLECTRUM. You would have a direct command which outlawed a piano, organ, guitar with a pick or trumpet because it cannot be PLUCKED. Apollo or Abaddon who is Apollyon is often pictured PLUCKING both the lyre and his bow. His bow sent out literal or love arrows. In the same way the literature speaks of SHOOTING OUT HYMNS. This is the ONLY connection.
There is not a solitary instance in the history of literature which makes PSALLO mean to play an instrument. You need three things: 1) sing, 2) PLUCK and 3) you ALWAYS have to define what is plucked.
In the word used in Ephesians Paul does not use the personal traumas identified by James. Don't get DRUNK is the Greek "methuo" which I have found often as meaning 'don't get FLUTED or don't get PIPED down with wine.' The pagan "worship" where women led usually as the "prophesiers" of 1 Cor. 11:5 were the FLUTE-GIRLS which was a synomyn for prostitute. They were like bar girls and you know that you cannot peddle wine without music.
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Eph 5:18 (This is the Word of Christ in Col 3:16 and in John 6:63)
Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Eph 5:19
The word methuo or drunk very often speaks of "getting FLUTED down or PIPED down with wine." Then as now you don't get drunk in the homosexual gatherings without the flute girls who were prostitutes and the male harpists or PLUCKERS of strings who were Sodomites.
Look at this in two steps. First:
Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
Laleo (g2980) lal-eh'-o; a prol. form of an otherwise obsol. verb; to talk, i.e. utter words: - preach, say, speak (after), talk, tell, utter. Comp. 3004.
Lego (g3004) leg'-o; a prim. verb; prop. to "lay" forth, i.e. (fig.) relate in words usually of systematic or set discourse
In Ephesians chapter four and five Paul uses numerous parallel statements none of which have to do with ceremonial legalism. For instance:
Wherefore putting away lying,
........... speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Ep.4:25This may have always have to do with corporate worship which in Corinth "did more harm than good." It was possible to "speak" to one another outside the collective assembly and have the heart strings plucked as you "sing" internally to God. As a way for people with diverse opinions to SPEAK THE SAME THINGS, Paul defined the ekklesia or synagogue which was a school of the Bible;
For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me. Rom 15:3
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. Rom 15: 4
Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: Rom 15: 5
That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Rom 15: 6
In an almost identical statement the Psalmist says (without any musical notation added):
O give thanks unto the Lord; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people. Psa 105:1
Sing (just sing) unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works. Psa 105:2 (they did not psalm but they sang psalms)
Now, look at the second part of the verse:
singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Eph 5:19
Ado (g103) ad'-o; a prim. verb; to sing: - sing.
Paul probably would not combine external preaching and external singing being done at the same time.
External Melody always had an ugly association with prostitution and the panic of warfare. Therefore, many scholars say that by this time the word was used figuratively of the "abrading" or "heart breaking" which takes place when we speak God's words.
Psallo (g5567) psal'-lo; (to rub or touch the surface; comp. 5597); to twitch or twang, i.e. to play on a stringed instrument (celebrate the divine worship with music and accompanying odes): - make melody, sing (psalms)
Psocho (g5597) pso'-kho; prol. from the same base as 5567; to triturate (grind to powder), i.e. (by anal.) to rub out (kernels from husks with the fingers or hand): - rub.
Psomion (g5596) pso-mee'-on; dim. from a der. of the base of 5597; a crumb or morsel (as if rubbed off), i.e. a mouthful: - sop.
This is the sop Jesus fed Judas who would not triumph over Him with music and rejoicing which would happen if Judas had won. The Judas Bag was
Glossokomon (g1101) gloce-sok'-om-on; from 1100 and the base of 2889; prop. a case (to keep mouthpieces of wind-instruments in), i.e. (by extens.) a casket or (spec.) purse: - bag. This word is made up of:
Speaking in tongues and
Of the world which belongs to Satan who filled Judas when Jesus fed him the PSOMION.
Remember the connection Paul made between instrumental music and speaking in tongues?
Augustine warned against those who would not themselves even pluck up a radish or a bunch of grapes because God was in them but would depart soon afterward. However, they believed that an old flute proved the presence of God. Augustin showed that musical instruments have always been connected with abrading, rubbing to bits or some other act of violence:
"Again, if you prefer to test the presence of God by the agreeable effects on the hearing, and not sight, or smell, or taste, harps get their strings and pipes their bones from animals; and these become musical by being dried, and rubbed, and twisted. So the pleasures of music, which you hold to have come from the divine kingdom, are obtained from the refuse of dead animals, and that, too, when they are dried by time, and lessened by rubbing, and stretched by twisting. Such rough treatment, according to you, drives the divine substance from living objects; even cooking them, you say, does this. Why then are boiled thistles not unwholesome? Is it because God, or part of God, leaves them when they are cooked? ST.AUGUSTIN: ON THE MORALS OF THE MANICHAEANS, Ch 16,46
Charles Dailey: There is not one word that the apostles or prophets ever spoke against instrumental music. Rather, we find the church met in the Temple where the instruments were used in profusion.
Because none of the believers were of the tribe of Levi none of them were allowed to be in the court when the Levitical Warrior musicians were serving the priests who were slaughtering tens of thousands of innocent lambs as their original and continuing repudiation of Jesus Christ as the Messiah.
The "regular" Jews never saw music as worship. Rather, the Bible is clear that when the great sound which echoed over all of Jerusalem was heartd it was a signal to be OUT of the court where they were slaughtering types of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The word worship is abodah or abad which means HARD BONDAGE. This was added "because of transgression" that being musical idolatry at mount Sinai. Because this was their prayer to be able to worship like the nations, Stephen and others prove that God TURNED THEM OVER to worship the starry host. This included Molech where they burned their children to the sound of instruments to get a MESSAGE from Baal. Chiun is Saturn who is the Chaldee 666.
Anyone caught PREACHING or waving their hands around in the courts (church yard) would have been executed.
None of the Levitical "sounders" were ever permitted into the Holy Place as a type of the body or church of Christ: not even to clean out the garbage.
In fact, the "sounds" were to mask the horrors and to signal the common people who were "strangers" to be outside the gates and if incidentially present to bow or fall on their face.
You have to look where Paul points or you will never understand even the basics. For instance,
Paul warned the Corinthians against "rising up to play" (1Cor 10) as had the Israelites at Mount Sinai. Play is exactly what they and David did when they sang, played instruments and stripped naked to dance with the slave girls.
The Babylonian and Egyptian clergy was made up of priests, soothsayers, musicians and male dand female prostitutes. Therefore, at Mount Sinai:
"They sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play. They practiced rites in which they made themselves naked, perhaps similar to those which were carried out by naked Babylonian priests." (Woodrow, p. 158).
"Not to be overlooked here is the accompaniment of music and dancing which, with the character of the ensuing phenomena, makes the diagnosis (of idolatry) certain." (Schaff-Herzog, Ecstasy, p. 71).
And Paul said that:
Even things without life (inanimate or mechanical instruments) giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 1Co 14:7
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal (lifeless), but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; 2Cor 10:4
The Hebrew word for weapon and musical instrument is the same because both were often tools of warfare against friend or foe. The word Paul used is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew and includes both:
Hoplon (g3696) hop'-lon; (to be busy about); an implement or utensil or tool (lit. or fig., espec. offensive for war): - armour, instrument, weapon
Strabo Geography 10.3.16
Of the rites of Dionysus condemned by Paul in First Corinthians:
"And he mentions immediately afterwards the attendants of Dionysus: one, holding in his hands the bombyces, toilsome work of the turner's chisel, fills full the fingered melody, the call that brings on frenzy, while another causes to resound the bronze-bound cotylae.
"and again, stringed instruments raise their shrill cry, and frightful mimickers from some place unseen bellow like bulls, and the semblance of drums, as of subterranean thunder, rolls along, a terrifying sound.
The sounding brass in First Corinthians thirteen was a Greek military instrument or hollow vase. It is directly related to the Chaldean which is a synonymn for astrologer. It was used like the familiar spirit or "old wineskin" of the witch of Endor to call up a ghost from the subterranean world. By whispering and murmuring into the skin or hollow vase the client heard mysterous sounds which were interpreted as from the gods. At the same time, it was used as a musical instrument or weapon to try to panic the enmy with the noise.
Paul said, first test the inspired by person because if there is one such person he will acknowledge that I will reveal God's Word to you. Then, he said test it by having another inspired prophet confirm that your speaking in tongues or sounding brass is really from our God and not, as he said in 1Cor 14:1-9, out of their own spirit. This was not authority for these things but it was Paul's ironic way to show that Corinth had no such gifted people. He said that if there happened to be one such inspired person he would know that revelation came from the apostles and not those whom he identified as carnal.
Charles Dailey: We can find the Christians in and about the Temple in a number of Scriptures starting right in Acts 2 where the church originated. In Acts 5:20, we see again that the Christians were in the Temple. In fact, here the angel commands,
"Go, stand in the temple courts," he said, "and tell the people the full message of this new life." (Acts 5:20 NIV)
Now, how are they going to preach to the milling masses in the temple courts while there is NO MUSIC but a loud crashing sound going on behind THICK walls. NO preacher would tolerate this: why would God incarnate? The word "temple" often designated the whole "circles of sanctity" spoke of by the Edersheim quote above.
Not even Jesus could get into the Holy Place as a type of his body or the church of Christ. When the "music" sounded not even Jesus could be in the court where the slaughtering with blood and dung was taking place.
If Jesus happened to be in an outer court or porch Edersheim informs us that he had better "be gone" or be on his fact.
When the "music" sounded the has better NOT be standing in the temple courts and preaching!
Remember, these courts resounded with the sounds of voices and instruments raised in the praise of God. They preached with a background of instrumental music.
Can't find that one! Bunk! Why would Jesus destroy the temple for the third time if the BACKGROUND music enhanced His sermons? T
And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, Luke 19:41
Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace but now they are hid from thine eyes. Luke 19:42
As prophesied, this whole event was to pass Judgment upon the Jews who knew the Word but refused to act upon it:
For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, Luke 19:43
And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. Luke 19:44
When Jesus "cried out" it was just teaching:
And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought; Luke 19:45
Ekballo (g1544) ek-bal'-lo; from 1537 and 906; to eject (lit. or fig.): - bring forth, cast (forth, out), drive (out), expel, leave, pluck (pull, take, thrust) out, put forth (out), send away (forth, out).
Ballo (g906) bal'-lo; a prim. verb; to throw (in various applications, more or less violent or intense): - arise, cast (out), * dung, lay, lie, pour, put (up), send, strike, throw (down), thrust. Comp. 4496.
Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves. Luke 19:46
Those who tithe or obey the LAW OF GIVING are BUYING that which Jesus died to give us for free. Jesus cast the out along with the blind.
Those who CHARGE or SELL their prophesying with or without music: Jesus cast the out into the dung heap.
The house was not the Holy Place or Most Holy Place but the court yards. Jesus could not enter the holy precincts.
And he taught daily in the temple, But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him, Luke 19:47
The parable which Charles Dailey missed is that when people seek to TEACH the word, the Pharisees will seek to destroy you. The BACKGROUND MUSIC is a subconsious parable. Now, the background music was to SIGNAL people to be outside the gates and flat on their face. The chiefts were not RITUALIZING with music but rushing around trying to get at Jesus as God in their midst.
And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him. Luke 19:48
AND it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders, Luke 20:1
Jesus preached DOCTRINE which is the very purpose for preaching the GOSPEL. Neither Jesus nor the people could enter into the temple. They would have been in the courts. They could not even be in the presence of the sacrificial "musicians" animal sacrivices.
The sounding of trumpets was not to accompany preaching (just try it) or singing. They were used as loud, noisey signals to tell everyone to fall on their face. Try holding your harp, your bowl of incense and sing while on your literal face. The "sounding" was on the steps leading from the court of women: you could be far away and still be in the courts.
Charles Dailey: Again in Acts 5:42,
Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ. (Acts 5:42 NIV)
In Acts 22:17, Paul describes a time of worship:
"When I returned to Jerusalem and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance (Acts 22:17 NIV)
Then Charles Dailey should use a large body of musicians while someone is praying?
If there was any MUSIC playing that might account for Paul falling into a trance or ecstasy. However, here is another Dailey music parable missed: God didn't cause Paul to "worship" but:
And saw him saying unto me, Make haste [speed away], and
get thee quickly out of Jerusalem:
for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me. Acts 22:18But, Dailey: he was "where the instruments were clearly used."
And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee: Acts 22:19
And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him. Acts 22:20
And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. Acts 22:21
If only he had been a Stoneite! What a grand time to tell Paul to "take thou a musical worship team and a harp and flute-girls." Why old Paul had probably read him some Ezekiel or some Job or some Amos or some Isaiah or could SEE and HEAR:
For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through. Ezek 33:28
Then shall they know that I am the Lord, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed. Ezek 33:29
See how the Abominable Branch was the "song with instruments opposed to Christ the True Branch. Then turn on some EYES and EARS:
Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and
speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the Lord. Ezek 33:30
And they come unto thee as the people cometh,
and they sit before thee as my people,
and they hear thy words,
........but they will not do them:for with their mouth they shew much love,
........but their heart goeth after their covetousness. Ezek 33:31And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song
........of one that hath a pleasant voice,
........and can play well on an instrument:
for they hear thy words,
........but they do them not. Ezek 33:32And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them. Ezek 33:33
Do we understand this: they never stopped teaching, proclaiming and playing musical instruments? Then what is the point? If MUSIC is so vital that people will deliberately SOW DISCORD and eject old grey hairs who cannot tolerate the ABRASIVE sounds out then surely we must find some hint that there was a murmuring of zithers or something in the background. The murmuring and storming on the zithers was when they MUSICALLY MOCKED Jesus as Levitical Warrior musicians. Liberals say that Jesus knew about the Essenes at the Dead Sea. They had an Isaiah scroll a hundred years old which totally repudiates MUSIC as a device of Lucifer. He would have known of their version of Psalm 41 which prophesied about Judas trying to musicially triumph over Jesus.
You know that no preacher would preach while the band and choir are grinding away. Most would not permit it during prayer or the Lord's Supper. Didn't Jesus command a quiet place or even your closet for prayer? As far as I know Paul never led a public prayer. I don't know what he did in the temple but in Corinth he said, "sit down, shut up and listen to the Word delivered by me."
Charles Dailey: So we find that early Christians, including inspired leaders, were in the Temple where the instruments were clearly used.
When animal sacrifices were in full swing the LOUD NOISE was a signal that non-clergy Jews including off-duty priests and Levites had better be OUTSIDE THE GATES and on their face
The temple grounds, like a tower of Babel, had circles of sanctity and not even Jesus got into the Holy Place or Most Holy place. They met and taught in the courts and porches BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE PEOPLE WERE. However, they were not making instrumental music. How could they TEACH when instruments were making noixe?
The soon to be disbanded clergy also sold sick lambs and exchanged your old money for "holy" money. They sold at a discount and then got what was left. You offered a dollar and they got $1.20. They were selling sick lambs. They were slaughtering them. They ate the meat. They trusted the sacrifice. Is that authority? If not authority for animal sacrifice then not for music!
We have clearly shown above that the Jews didn't play real music but made a great crashing sound to signal the beginning and ending of the sacrifice. Later additions were identified as "children in the marketplace (temple) playing instrumental music to seduce even John and Jesus." They did not succeed. We showed that Jesus went up to the temple to condemn what the Jews were doing at The Feast of Tabernacles. History shows that this was "show and tell time" for the childish, fertility priestly class. We find no Christian singing with the temple "Musical Worship Team" nor borrowing their mind control methods. Nothing.
Charles Dailey: Now if we make the claim that the New Testament is silent about the instrument, then we are saying that it was approved by the apostles, because they did not warn against this common, everyday Jewish practice of worship.
No, no literate Bible student would ever say that the New Testament is silent about instruments. Here may be the problem:
But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. 2 Cor 3:15
Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. 2 Cor 3:16Now the Lord is that Spirit:
........ and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 2 Cor 3:17But we all, with open face
........ beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord,
........ are changed into the same image from glory to glory,
........ even as by the Spirit of the Lord. 2 Cor 3:18Now, just look above, when Paul was praying OUTSIDE of the music area but the Levites may have, according to Josephus, been making illegal "music" on the steps leading from the Court of Women. Maybe they were trying to HEAR what Paul could hear and the MUSIC at the same time
Dailey: then we are saying that it was approved by the apostles,
But, Paul was IN THE SPIRIT and could hear Christ tell him: run from this pagan "Worship Center" because they are MARKED:
And saw him saying unto me, Make haste [speed away], and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me. Acts 22:18
And he [Christ the Spirit] said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. Acts 22:21
Oh, but they did. Look above. The only God-commanded "instruments" were the two silver trumpets which were supplimented with animal horns was for the special feast days and special sabbath days. Paul said not to let anyone judge us by imposing the music to these ancient festivals:
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; Col 2:14
And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Col 2:15
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Col.2:16
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. Col 2:17
Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, Col2:18
Paul associates the voices of angels with clanging brass in 1 Corinthians 13. He further associates it with "speaking in tongues."
"It is a great mistake to imagine that back of their idolatry and their idol sacrifices there is nothing but an empty vacuity. True enough, as 1 Cor 8:4 makes plain, the gods of the idols have no existence whatever; no being by the name of Jupiter exists, and this is true with respect to all other gods. But something does exist, something that is far more terrible than these pseudo-gods, namely an entire kingdom of darkness which is hostile to God, a host of demons or fallen angels who are ruled by the greatest of their number, namely Satan, Eph. 2:3; 6:12. (Lenski)
For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. 1 Co.11:10KJV
This brings you back to the fallen angels and the ready compliance of the women. When they played musical instruments it is said that "Satan came into them." In many ancient documents, the music and loose women seduced the Holy Sethites away from the presence of the Living Word. Once they had fallen, they lost all power to return to the Word. Click for the story of Genun who is a composite of Jubal, Jabal, Tubal-Cain and Naamah called the enchantress. We have posted three dozen versions of this absolute belief that Satan steals worship from God with music which means charismatic which means sexual and perverted. This includes The Book of Ench and The Book of Jubilees
But Venus (Lucifer, S.U.N., Zoe) and Bacchus are close allies. These two evil spirits are in sworn confederacy with each other, as the patrons of drunkenness and lust. So the theatre of Venus is as well the house of Bacchus: for they properly gave the name of Liberalia also to other theatrical amusements-which besides being consecrated to Bacchus (as were the Dionysia of the Greeks), were instituted by him; and, without doubt,
the performances of the theatre have the common patronage of these two deities.
That immodesty of gesture and attire which so specially and peculiarly characterizes the stage are consecrated to them-the one deity wanton by her sex, the other by his drapery;
while its services of voice, and song, and lute, and pipe, belong to Apollos, and Muses, and Minervas, and Mercuries.
The pagans and Jews believed that their dance and music could "bring one into the presence of the gods." At times, Elijah joked, the god might be asleep or just "relieving himself." However, Jesus would triumph over the Jews with a literally resurrected body and He could triumph over the musicians. They thought that they "triumphed him" when they lifted Him up on a pole. But Jesus said that this would "draw all men to men."
Charles Dailey: III. THE THEOLOGY OF THE NEW COVENANT.
The New Covenant began on the Jewish feast day of Pentecost in AD 30. We all understand that. Alexander Campbell set the Redstone Baptist Association on its ear with this profound truth. The reality of it is not up for review here. It is well established by the Lord himself.
As the moments ticked away before the crucifixion of Jesus, He was setting up a permanent memorial with his men in the upper room,
In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you." (Luke 22:20 NIV)
This is the first reference to the New Covenant in the New Covenant documents we call the New Testament. Jesus' death put the New Covenant into effect.
The second reference to this doctrine is in the Book of Galatians written after the Jerusalem Conference in AD 49. Nineteen years elapsed before this important bit of Restoration Theology was mentioned again. Here Paul introduces it as something these readers were not familiar with.
24 These things may be taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. 25 Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. Galatians 4 (NIV)
The Old Testament replaced The Book of The Covenant of grace because of the musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. At times both the first day and seventh day had no animal sacrifices which was a penalty for rejecting Grace. Those days were for A Holy Convocation. This meant to REST which does not speak of "doing worship" for READING or REHEARSING the Law. In that yearly and weekly hearing of the Law they would have grasped that the GRACE of REST and hearing from God had also meant 5 days of SERVICE which was "worship" in the hard bondage sense. It would be silly to have to wait for Paul to tell them the MUSIC connected to ANIMAL SACRIFICES when they had heard the story all of their lives.
The assembly or gathering or "church in the wilderness" had always been for receiving instructions. Therefore, the SYNAGOGUE was the 'common people's' weekly access to the REST from "worship ritual" other than the fact that Paul said that GIVING HEED to the Word is Christian worship.
"The triumphal hymn of Moses had unquestionably a religious character about it; but the employment of music in religious services, though idolatrous, is more distinctly marked in the festivities which attended the erection of the golden calf." (Smith's Bible Dictionary, Music, p. 589).
Ephraim Syrus On Our Lord notes that Sinai was a test. T
18. But when their heathenism from being inward became open, then Moses also from being hidden openly appeared; that he might openly punish those whose heathenism had revelled beneath the holy cloud which had overshadowed them.
But God removed the Shepherd of the flock from it for forty days, that the flock might show that its trust was fixed upon the calf.
And he was there in the wilderness forty days tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him. Mark 1:13
While God was feeding the flock with all delights, it chose for itself as its Shepherd the calf, which was not able even to eat.
Moses who kept them in awe was removed from them, that the idolatry might cry aloud in their mouths,
which the restraint of Moses had kept down in their hearts. For they cried: Make us gods, to go before us.
19. But when Moses came down, he saw their heathenism revelling in the wide plain with drums and cymbals.
Speedily, he put their madness to shame by means of the Levites and drawn swords.
So likewise here, our Lord concealed His knowledge for a little when the sinful woman approached Him, that the Pharisee might form into shape his thought,
as his fathers had shaped the pernicious calf.That is why John who worshipped IN THE SPIRIT on the Lord's Day was ALONE and had not musical mediators understood and prophesied:
And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. Re.11:8
We should inquire into this silence of 19 years. One obvious answer could be that no books were written during that time. No book was composed except James. How does James handle the subject? He is absolutely silent. It certainly seems to us important enough to discuss.
We have said--and any 5 year old entering compulsary synagogue school in Jerusalem and other places would have understand--that the so-called "music" had a rationale only in Jerusalem, in the temple COURTS and connected to priestly sacrifices.
Consistent with ALL scribes, they attended important events and made perfect copies of what transpired. They set others busy to transcribe and make many copies. The people who attended--just like modern meetings--wanted 'hand outs" and they were supplied.
Heredotus bron about 484 BC and died 430&endash;420 wrote extensively and sold his product: he declared that the Messiah the Jews anticipated was Dionysus.
First, Paul to Timothy lets us know that copies of the Scriptures and oral teaching as the function of the synagogue or school of the Bible was common. An oral method of transmission is more powerful than a written version. By obeying the direct command of Paul to TEACH that which is written or the Psalm material "one to another" this SPEAKING would assure that everyone would memorize large parts of the Scripture. We know from secular history that Jerusalem would have been filled with scribes of many nations. They would record what they saw and heard, write out copies and sell them so that the Word would have sounded forth from Jerusalem.
Therefore, they were not silent. The dispersed people had been in Jerusalem to worship and they did not worship musically. The clergy performed the rituals for them and their act was to bow or fall on their face - most "outside the gates." Pretty hard to play a literal harp in this position. After their conversion many returned to their homes.
They understood that, where they lived, the synagogues had no instrumental music and no real vocal music except chanting or reading the revealed Word of God.
They knew that the Apostles did not worship with music and did not add music to their religion which never had real music in the "excite your body" sense. As Jews, they knew that if the temple came to an end there would be no legitimate use for music as worship because they would not be in Jerusalem and there would be no animal sacrifice.
You simply CANNOT attempt to restore what was SOUND and not MUSIC without repudiating Jesus Christ as the once for all times Lamb of God.
The musical worship of Apis, the bull, destroyed The Book of the Covenant and brought on The Book of the Law at Mount Sinai. They knew that music was instituted in Jerusalem only after David could never return to the place where God "lived." They knew that Job, Amos, Isaiah and Ezekiel had associated music with ignorance of the Word. They knew that the kings had brought them into slavery while the "leaders" were engaged in musical festivals.
John would show what Christ thought of the literal Jerusalem as the place where they tried to musically triumph over him:
And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. Re.11:8
We know from history that the wandering singers were prostitutes and especially male instrumentalists were Sodomites. Sodom was the seat of perverted 'worship' rituals where the "musical prophesiers" always used instrument as TRICKS of their trade.