-Isoc. 4 44
And neither to common men nor to those of superior gifts is the time so
spent idle and profitless, but in the concourse of the
Hellenes the
latter have the opportunity to display their prowess, the former to
behold these contending against each other in the games; and no one
lacks zest for the festival, but all find in it that which flatters
their pride,
the spectators when they see
the athletes exert themselves
for their benefit,
the athletes when they
reflect that all the world is
come to gaze upon them.
Since, then, the benefits which accrue to us
from our assembling together are so great, here again our city has not
been backward;
Music from mystery means "to make the lambs dumb
before the slaughter." Or to silecence the voiceof the victim so that
the victimizers and be Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites named by
Christ in Ezekiel 33 as speakers, singers and instrument players. Music
was always considered sacred violence especially at the not God
commanded sacrificial system.
Q. Are preachers guided "beyond the sacred page" by a God Person named The Holy Spirit?
A. No. Scripture does not name preacher in a local sense in Ephesians 4. Furthermore, there is no role and no dole for fabricating sermons. Those who claim that there is a member of their god family who guides the, they mean that he does not guide you. Therefore, we will have no differences of opinion.
No historic trinitarian ever thought that the Spirit OF Christ was another "people." In the description by Jesus in John 12f not even the Son speaks anything He has not heard from the One God the Father in heaven. God communicates that Word by his BREATH which is a literal meaning of "spirit." Jesus SPEAKS that word without measure which in the Greek texts means WITHOUT METER. Consistent with that none of the Word of God is metrical. God is mature and masculine and SPEAKS to the rational or spiritual mind.
Q. Is a Church of Christ defined in Acts 2?
A. No. These people were pilgrims whose money ran out. The local citizens helped to feed and house them. There was no "law of giving" and even if they sold their property there was no obligation or special pleading to hand it over. Many or most of the disciples returned home and the subsequent "syngagoue" meetings with Jesus was not in the Temple. Among those left in Jerusalem to suffer persecution because of "doctrine"
Q. Are preachers guided "beyond the sacred page" by a God Person named The Holy Spirit?
A. No. Scripture does not name preacher in a local sense in Ephesians 4. Furthermore, there is no role and no dole for fabricating sermons. Those who claim that there is a member of their god family who guides the, they mean that he does not guide you. Therefore, we will have no differences of opinion.
No historic trinitarian ever thought that the Spirit OF Christ was another "people." In the description by Jesus in John 12f not even the Son speaks anything He has not heard from the One God the Father in heaven. God communicates that Word by his BREATH which is a literal meaning of "spirit." Jesus SPEAKS that word without measure which in the Greek texts means WITHOUT METER. Consistent with that none of the Word of God is metrical. God is mature and masculine and SPEAKS to the rational or spiritual mind.
Q. Is a Church of Christ defined in Acts 2?
A. No. These people were pilgrims whose money ran out. The local citizens helped to feed and house them. There was no "law of giving" and even if they sold their property there was no obligation or special pleading to hand it over. Many or most of the disciples returned home and the subsequent "syngagoue" meetings with Jesus was not in the Temple. Among those left in Jerusalem to suffer persecution because of "doctrine"
Acts 8:1 And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.In the local, established sense the church or ekklesia met weekly as called by the one contact elder who was paid a small salary. When the church DISmissed it did not leave an INSTITUTE lying around to feed and keep from making trouble. As an example, Paul worked when others worked and then taught (dialoged) when everyone had free time.
For preachers the CENI is defined clearly:
Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,People who boast about their majestic grace can hurt you really bad: Grace, like Word is a title of Jesus the Messiah.
All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
The NAME of Father, Son and Spirit is Jesus Christ. Paul who heard this did not hallucinate a spirit "people."
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them,
Repent,
and be baptized every one of you
in the name of Jesus Christ
for the remission of sins,
and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost (A holy personal spirit)
Repentence makes OBEDIENCE possible.
Romans 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey,
his servants ye are to whom ye obey;
whether of sin unto death,
or of obedience unto righteousness?
Romans 6:17 But God be thanked,
that ye were the servants of sin,
but ye have obeyed from the heart
that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
Romans 6:18 Being then made free from sin,
ye became the servants of righteousness.
Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him:
for he that cometh to God must believe that he is,
and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
The only way to SEEK Jesus Christ is through His Word.
Q. Then what is the role of The Holy Spirit?
A. Theologians missed "prepositional phrases 101a."
The Spirit OF Christ is the MIND of Christ (1 Cor 2). Jesus said "my words are Spirit and Life" John 6:63.
The Spirit of Christ (Ephesians 5) is the Word of Christ (Col 3) which we SPEAK one to another. The Mind of Christ is inculcated by the recorded Epics in the Prophets in a spiritual sense. Unless you think you are superior you cannot private interpret or further expound what Jesus has expounded: that would make you a false teacher. By reading and discussing the accounts of people with God, they imbibe the Spirit or Mind of Christ: the Psalms are for our teaching and LEARNING and not for singing and making music.
Both preaching and singing were imposed about the year 373 after Constantine paid pagan priests to become Christian bishops.
As we will be changed into a spirit state, Jesus of Nazareth returned at Pentecost as Holy Spirit: to Paul in Acts the post-resurrection "Jesus of Nazareth" had to let Paul SEE Him and HEAR His voice to qualify him to speak on behalf of Jesus. There are no such people alive today: people who appeal to the "spirit" according to Alexander Campbell use a "marvelous device" to dominate people for his own profit.
Jesus the man died, was buried, was resurrecte, was transfigured or "changed", went to the One God the Father in heaven, received the promise of the Holy Spirit and returned on the day of Pentecost and "shed forth" what you see and hear. They heard WIND which is the visible sense of the breath of God.
Acts 2:34 For David is not ascended into the heavens:There is only ONE GOD the Father in Heaven. Messiah was to be of the SEED of Abraham. The Restoration leaders grasped that Jesus was born of a woman in order to full the prophecies among mankind. The promise in Acts 2:38 is that only those who have been baptized are given A holy spirit after their UNholy spirit has been washed by Christ. The same Peter called it A good conscience in 1 Peter 3:21. See the understanding of Walter Scott, Alexander Campbell etal in this connection proving the TWO ONLY relationship.
but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord,
Sit thou on my right hand,
Acts 2:35 Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
Acts 2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly,
that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified,
both Lord and Christ.
John said that if you deny that two-fold relationship you are ANTI-Christ
1Timothy 2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
1Timothy 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved,
and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
1Timothy 2:5 For there is one God,
and one mediator between God and men,
the man Christ Jesus;
1Timothy 2:6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
1John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not.Q. Didn't Jesus promise that there would be ANOTHER Comforter? Doesn't that mean that there are two comforters?
And if any man sin,
we have an advocate (comforter) with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
1John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only,
but also for the sins of the whole world.
1John 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
1John 2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar,
and the truth is not in him.
1John 2:5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected:
hereby know we that we are in him.
1John 2:6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk,
even as he walked
A. In John 14:18 Jesus said "I" will return to you. In 1 John 2 the NAME of that Comforter is "Jesus Christ the Righteous." He would guide the Apostles into all truth as they went out to preach the gospel.
Q. Isn't the "gospel" just the good news about Jesus as our only concern?
A. No. Jesus personally and all of the apostles preached the gospel of the KINGDOM. The Kingdom is the Church of Christ.
Q. According to the Acts 2 pattern isn't the church to be a social services and worshiping commune?
A. No. The church is the Qahal, synagogue or church of Christ in the wilderness. It had only two roles:
INCLUSIVE of Rest, Reading and Rehearsing the Word: what disciples do.Q. Where did you get that information?
EXCLUSIVE of vocal or instrumental rejoicing: what disciples OF Christ do not do.
A. When Israel rose up to play in musical idolatry of the always-pagan trinity, God turned them over to worship the starry host (Acts 7 etal). He gave them The Law of Moses and sentenced them to return to Babylon, The Synagogue is defined at this link. John called for the Restoration of the Church of Christ according to Apostolic teachings. He defined the role of the godly assembly and we have posted both Latin and Greek definitions of what they did. The Synagogue according to Calvin.
Q. Didn't the church assemble in the synagogue and SING without any question about doctrine?
A. No. The direct command is to use that which is written for our learning. None of that is metrical. You could not sing it if your life depended on it.
Acts 15:21 For Moses
of old time hath in every city
them that preach him,
being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
Justin Martyr Chapter LXVII.-Weekly Worship of the Christians. And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits;
then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things.
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.1Ti.4:13
Then we all rise together and pray, and, as we before said, when our prayer is ended,
bread and wine and water are brought, and the president in like manner offers prayers and thanksgivings, according to his ability, and the people assent, saying Amen;
and there is a distribution to each, and a participation of that over which thanks have been given, and to those who are absent a portion is sent by the deacons.
And they who are well to do, and willing, give what each thinks fit;
and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need.
Anthing beyond that makes you an institute: an edifice to civic pride and fleecing honest people.
If you can't honor the command to "teach that which has been taught" then you will fall into folly with the "praise" word. aineō (cf. ainēmi, ainizomai), impf. reports of you as honest, praise, approve opposite psegō finding fault, censure glorify God, approve, advise, recommend, promise or vow. Christ says that speaking our of your own imagination is blasphemy because it ignores the Spirit OF Christ.Q. Isn't the Church of Christ a happy hour for all commers?
Jer 23:17 They say still unto them that despise me,Despise tthe Word of God of God and using your own words is:
The Lord hath said, Ye shall have peace;
and they say unto every one that walketh
after the imagination of his own heart,
No evil shall come upon you. " You can SOW discord and steal from the owners"
Blasphēm-eō , pf.
A. “beblasphēmēka” D.18.10:—speak profanely of sacred things, “eis theous” Pl.R.381e; offer rash prayers, Id.Alc.2.149c; b. kata tinosutter imprecations against, Aeschin.1.180.
2. speak ill or to the prejudice of one, slander, “peri tēs emēs diatribēs” Isoc.15.2, cf. D.l.c., ib.82; “b. kata tinos” Isoc.12.65, cf. Arist.Fr.44; “hosa eis hēmas eblasphēmēsan” D.51.3; “b. tina” Babr.71.6, Ev.Luc.23.39, etc.: abs., Phld.Lib.p.8 O.:—Pass., to have evil spoken of one, “beblasphēmēmenous” Id.Vit.p.12 J., cf. 1 Ep.Cor.10.30.
3. speak impiously or irreverently of God, blaspheme, “eis ton Kurion” LXX Da.3.29(96); “eis to pneuma to hagion” Ev.Marc.3.29; eis ta theia Vett. Val.58.12; “tous theous” Id.67.20: abs., LXX 2 Ma.10.34, al., Ev.Matt.9.3.
A. No. The church has the same purpose as the Church of Christ or synagogue in the wilderness: it is a School of the Word:
Ephesians 3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery,
which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God,
who created all things by Jesus Christ:
Ephesians 3:10 To the intent that now unto
the principalities and powers in heavenly places
might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
Ephesians 3:11 According to the eternal purpose which
he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
Ephesians 3:12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith OF him.
Ephesians 3:13 Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
In Ephesians 4 Paul gave leaders to EXCLUDE those who have their own preference for doctrine or music. Only by silencing the performers: rhetoricians, singers, instrument players could what Paul called "synagogue" take place.
In Ephesians 5 the command is to SPEAK that which is written: Speak is the opposite of rhetoric, singing or playing instruments.
In Ephesians 6 we WRESTLE: church is not a love in like Sodom.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Christ and most recorded history has PreMarked Religious Musicians
Adding Bible Context to "A Statement from the North Boulevard Elders and Preachers
February 1, 2009 "
9.16.10 Small groups have histoically been the way to wean the flock away from the shepherds to divide and conquer. You may read my notes here. You are free to comment"Lastly, the mission of amusement fails to effect the end desired. It works havoc among young converts. Let the careless and scoffers, who thank God because the church met them halfway, speak and testify.
"Let the heavy laden who found peace through the concert not keep silent! Let the drunkard to whom the dramatic entertainment has been God's link in the chain of the conversion, stand up!
Our Small Groups are launching a new series on SeptemberWhy would any elder permit the teaching of anti-Christian pagan myths to better understand being a Disciple (only) of Christ (only). C.S.Lewis points directly to the gender-twisted myths which Scripture uses to define the pagan religions based on wine, music and gender twisting experiiences such as rhetoric and performance singing with or without instruments. The gay community claims C.S.Lewis though there may be doubts.
19. This will include a Friday night movie which will establish the
platform for group discussion.
The first movie is The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe on
September 17 at 7 pm in the Filling Station.
If you do not care enough to understand the paganism repudiated by the Word of God you are doomed to rrepeate it.
Some of the links to Latin and Greek texts have been switched: I am trying to correct them noted wit- a - (dash)
See how the Madison congregation led the way into apostasy in order to "seek the lost." It seems that when the Seekers came in they LOST more than half of the owners. That great leap grew from about 3300 attenders to about 1400 and 300 of those were in jail. Other hireling-changelings had begun the deliberate discord with the Jubilee heresy and the 5,050 members "grew" to the 1400 over a space of time. You TOO can dare to be a Judas.
We have added a new Concerned Members front page which chronicles congregations of most Bible-based churches suddenly performing Lying Wonders by preachers and lost shepherds sent strong delusions for daring to tamper with the Word and the understanding of "church" before the wolves surfaced among the elders. We don't swallow the hook that it is unloving to disrobe the wolves wearing a still-bleeding sheepskin.
There no way to impose MUSICAL STYLES without being marked as ignoring or lying about the Holy Word of God. To suggest that God has not expressed Himself fully on instruments and all mind-altering drugs or practices is to be marked as STRONGLY DELUDED by Christ Himself. The MARK and absolute proof of delusion is to add anything not dedicated to the teaching of the Word of God. There is no recorded history of religious musicians other than bad women and if males "drunk, perverted or just having fun." The Zoe Group were forced to bring in an expert to "free" them from the Platonic Fallacy. The late Roger Chambers of the Christian Church warned about the effeminate nature of all "worship rituals."
From the wilderness onward, the Qahal, synagogue or church in the wilderness is the only assembly of Christ. The only "worship" concept by direct command and throughout the New Testament and early church history was to "give heed to the Word of Christ." Anyone who is waged to lead you into God's presence is called a sorcerer: and they burn sorcerers.Psalm 2:1 WHY do the heathen rage,
and the people imagine a vain thing?
Psalm 2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,
Psalm 2:3 Let us break their bands asunder,
and cast away their cords from us.
Psa. 2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh:
the Lord shall have them in derision.
Psa. 2:5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath,
and vex them in his sore displeasure.
Psa. 2:6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
No music in heaven. See Revelation 5: the elders and beasts must abandon their instruments. The "Elders" fired God and demanded a king like the nations so that they could worship like the nations. That was when God granted kings to carry out the captivity and death sentence imposed because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai.
Musical Worship Teams - Effeminate Worship - I"Philodemus considered it paradoxical that music should be regarded as veneration of the gods while musicians were paid for performing this so-called veneration. Again, Philodemus held as self deceptive the view that music mediated religious ecstasy. He saw the entire condition induced by the noise of cymbals and tambourines as a disturbance of the spirit.
He found it significant that, on the whole, only women and effeminate men fell into this folly.
Accordingly, nothing of value could be attributed to music; it was no more than a slave of the sensation of pleasure, which satisfied much in the same way that food and drink did.
"Women and girls from the different ranks of society were proud to enter the service of the gods as singers and musicians. The understanding of this service was universal: these singers constituted the 'harem of the gods'."
Johannes Quasten, verifies all of our claims that NEO-PAGANISM infiltrates all Music-Centered churches.
Musical Worship Teams - Effeminate Worship - II
Arnobius warning that people can become self-deluded:
May it not happen, may it not come to pass, although you craftily conceal it, that the one should take the other's place, deluding, mocking, deceiving, and presenting the appearance of the deity invoked?
If the magi, who areso much akin to soothsayers, relate that, in their incantations, pretended gods steal in frequently instead of those invoked; that some of these, moreover, are spirits of grosser substance, who pretend that they are gods, and delude the ignorant by their lies and deceit,-33. Your gods, it is recorded, dine on celestial couches, and in golden chambers, drink,
........ and are at last soothed by the music of the lyre, and singing .
........ You fit them with ears not easily wearied;
........ and do not think it unseemly to assign to the gods
........ the pleasures by which earthly bodies are supported,
........ ........ and which are sought after by ears enervated by the frivolity of an unmanly spirit.
The whole race, not merely a few of its noblest, most clear-sighted spirits, would be “in union with God”; and men, transfused by His light and heat, direct and willing agents of His Pure Activity, would achieve that completeness of life which the mystics dare to call “deification.” This is the substance of that redemption of the world, which all religions proclaim or demand: the consummation which is crudely imagined in the Apocalyptic dreams of the prophets and seers.All of these by and for the effeminate side of the church.
It is the true incarnation of the Divine Wisdom:… (164,165, emphasis mine)
And then finally we arrive at the reason The Ecumenical Church Of Deceit in postevangelicalism is busy seeking common ground through contemplative spirituality Rick Warren, (transcendental meditation for the Christian) with other religions. Richard Foster, Brian McLaren and Joel Osteen are sent into our midst to teach counterfeit versions of Christianity.
HOWEVER, God said:
And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.” (Genesis 8:21)
Summer Celebration and Church Council 2009: Richard Foster: you can be a witch under the promised Babylonian Mother of harlots (Rev 17-19). These are the "lusted after fruits" which Amos warned about: such preachers, singers and instrument players are called sorcerers and Jeus marked them as hypocrites.
Revised 7.06.10 / 7.10.10 ; 7.12.10
Revised 7.20.10
We will look at each statement marked THE LEADERSHIP beginning Here.
I WILL STUFF EACH OUT-OF-CONTEXT "PROOF" WITH THEIR CONTEXT TO PROVE THE OPPOSITE. I will define words and add links to literature of the time which is contrary to the modern theology of LU and the once-Christian colleges to "use your own imagination" to write your own story. The imagination comes from minds deluded by "spiritual formation" and all of the witchery of getting truth out of your own imagination which God says is always evil.
Each link will be to a large body of literature. After refuting each effort to intimidate you into silence, the added resources are optional and will become places to add additional research.
Each word marked with BLUE and underline are clickable so you can go to the original resources.
The usual Purpose Driven pattern is that at each juncture the old timers will slowly sift out and new, more non-Church of Christ members will sift in as they look for the latest musical entertainment venue. In this way they will take over your property. If you build a mega-church Satan WILL come. The pattern has been repeated and documented.
You WORSHIP what you "give heed to." If you give heed to rhetorical or musical performers masked as a preacher or song leader, or if he gets his TEAM to perform then you ARE worshiping the work of human hands. Jesus Christ will be OUTSIDE the camp suffering the reproaches you are heaping on him in the "marketplace." Since the WORD created the whole World, and God came as a visible and audible Word specificially to DESTROY the ceremonial legalism imposed on Israel BECAUSE of musical idolatry, we MIGHT think that His views of righteousness and justice (don't steal the church houses of widows) would not get OUTDATED.
Unity in Diversity is a Lie!
All of the "proof texts" are repudiated by the "context"
Preachers are Heralds: they do not tamper with the message.
Preachers are not called "leaders."
God ordained Elders and Deacons: both having Teaching authority.
"Staff Infection" stiffles the Body and robs the poor.
Jesus Called Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites by naming excited preachers, singers and instrument playersAll of the divisions for the last decade have begun over a "musical worship team" or special singing styles or rhetoric: all of whom Jesus marked as hypocrites. The fact is that Christ commands "that which is written" to be taught one to another with one mind and one mouth. The only rationale for what changed from speaking to a form of singing in the year 373, was to sing the "preacher's" songs. Those clamouring for "change" have often wished that we used instruments. That may be because they hate being preached at.
- I want to assure you that every text used used in this "white paper" to divert the Church of Christ -- which is absolutely defined as "a School of the Word of God" -- into the boasted of "theater for holy entertainment" is misleading.
- There is no kind way to say it.
- Every text -- and you are overwhelmed with too many to check -- has a context.
- Every context REPUDIATES that which the proof text asserts.
- Riding along is the warning not to be divisive by resisting the dividers.
- I have quoted each false assertion and then added Biblical evidence to prove them false. You can skip to the next assertion in red.
- Because the "preachers" make the presentation as the unanimous view of the preachers and elders, historical patterns prove that those NOT in agreement have pledged to be silent when only THEY have the right to speak.
- They will attempt to silence the messenger: blaming those they shot in the heart for bleeding on them.
The further you get from unison "speaking" -- since the Bible is not metrical and you cannot sing it -- the more the intention to silence the voice of the victim, Jesus Christ. Singing groups become a legalist way to perform in the style of "organum" without the members knowing any difference. The use of rhetoric, singing or instruments which Jesus identified as the hypocritic profession, makes it easier to slip from one non-Biblical "style" to a more "rock" or "jazz" form of doing the same denial of Christ and His Word.
Whether they tolerated it enough not to fire the discorders, the atmosphere will always be two hostile groups concentrating on the singing boys and never on Jesus Christ: the meek and lowly.Christ speaks through the Prophets and the prophecies made perfect by Jesus Christ and revealed exclusively by the Apostles. 2 Peter 1 Preaching about the text was never allowed in the synagogue or practiced in the historic church until the pagans were allowed to become unwashed dominant leaders.
Paul outlawed private interpretation or "further expounding" because that would deny Christ and truth through the Prophets and Apostles (only) .
2Pet. 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people,
even as there shall be false teachers among you,
who privily shall bring in damnable heresies,
Click below for the gradualism plan called "boiling the smiling frogs."
even denying the Lord that bought them,
and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
-Schismătĭcus i, m., = skhismatikos, I. a separatist, seceder, schismatic (eccl. Lat.): “schismaticos non fides diversa facit, sed communionis disrupta societas,” Aug. Quaest. in Matt. 11.The Leaders: promise you that they will disrupt the communion in the society using the PLOY that they know better than Scripture and all recorded evidence. It will come gradually so that you are seduced before you catch on enough to fire those with no Biblical or sensical funding.
A "Sectarian" or "Heretic" is literally defined in the Greek for the sacrificial systems as "the priest who lifted up the lambs to cut their throats." The musicians who made noise to "make the lambs dumb before the slaughter" were called PARASITES. When the never-authorized sacrificial systems were shut down by the literate, the singers wanted to continue to perform for money and were cast out of any decent Greek society.
The proven way for a heretic or sectarian to "take your property" is to define those who resist your hostile takeover as sectarians: isn't that slick?
-Hairesis taking of a town, taking by a king (set over us), acquisition of power.They call it "upsetting your comfort zones: Christ calls it terminal heresy." A sectarian introduces (forces) something into the community "non fides" which is not absolutely necessary to carry out the purpose of the assembly knowing that he is sowing discord. The psychological violence is to load you up with raca words like "legalistic, traditionalist" etc to make you fearful of opposing their hostile takeover. Being able to make you bow to his will is the validation that he is truly inspired.
-Hdt. 4.1 After taking Babylon, Darius himself marched against the Scythians. For since Asia was bursting with men and vast revenues were coming in, Darius desired to punish the Scythians for the wrong they had begun when they invaded Media first and defeated those who opposed them in battle.Later, in Heredotus 1 Cyrus, is told how to PASSIFY the captured enemy: Hdt. 1.155
Grant, then, forgiveness to the Lydians, and to make sure of their never rebelling against thee, or alarming thee more,
send and forbid them to keep any weapons of war,
command them to wear tunics under their cloaks,
and to put buskins upon their legs,
and make them bring up their sons to cithern-playing (Kitharizein),
singing (psallein),
and shop-keeping (Hucksterism). So wilt thou
soon see them become women instead of men,
and there will be no more fear of their revolting from thee."
THIS IS NEVER USED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
-Kitharizo play the Phormiggi the Harp of Apollo (Abaddon, Apollyon) to kitharizomenon music composed for the cithara, Plu.2.1144d.
YOU HAVE NOTHING TO PAY THEM WITH IN AN CASE.
-kapēl-euō , A. to be a retail-dealer, drive a petty trade, II. c. acc., sell by retail, “ton herpin” Hippon.51.
k. ta mathēmata sell learning by retail, hawk it about, Hdt. 3.89
k. tēs hōras anthos or tēn hōran, of prostitutes
2Cor. 2:17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God:
but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
HERE IS THE CENI BY JESUS
Matt. 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Matt. 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Matt. 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
So, it is worth the gamble to be a heretic or schismaticus, reject fidelity to the Word, and disrupt the society or church? Destruction is perdition according to Paul in Romans 9:22 and in 2 Thess 2 is your predestinated end. Part of the published agenda is to make sure that your property is on good financial footings and the new expansion is firmly in place: then they out their hidden agenda. When Rick Atchley was accused of violating their trust by a promise, his resonse was "that was then but this is now."
Don't be shocked: Jesus warned that the doctors of the law "take away the key to knowledge." He branded them as hypocrites by naming preachers, singers and instrument players.Th. 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means:THEY WANT TO IMPROVISE NEW WAYS TO GET ALL OF YOUR ATTENTION.
for that day shall not come,
except there come a falling away first, [Apostasia rebellion against God]
and that man of sin be revealed,
the son of perdition; A new Judas.
The Judas Bag was always attached to the flute case of men like Judas Sicarri (or Assassin) who was prophesied to perform the following to try to defeat Jesus.
This is also the Dionysus (Bacchus) or old wineskin persona!
2Th. 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God,
or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God,
shewing himself that he is God.
2Th. 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan
with all power and signs and lying wonders,
Why do ye not understand my speech?-Opĕrātĭo I A working, work, labor, operation., A. A religious performance, service, or solemnity, a bringing of offerings: operationes denicales, offerings,
even because ye cannot hear my word. John 8: 43
Ye are of your father the devil,
and the lusts of your father ye will do.
He was a murderer from the beginning,
and abode not in the truth,
because there is no truth in him.
When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own:
for he is a liar, and the father of it. John 8: 4
-Teratourgia working of wonders, love of the marvelous.
-Teras Thaumastos III. to be worshipped, “oudeis m' areskei nukti thaumastos theōn” E.Hipp.106.
Areskei or the Latin placere in Romans 14 outlaws all of the rhetoric and other hypocritiic arts
Lying wonders will always be rhetorical, dramatic or musical spectacles claimed to be worshiping God.
-Theaomai —gaze at, behold, mostly with a sense of wonder
3. view as spectators, esp. in the theatre
-The-a_ma. theēma , atos, to/, (theaomai) A. sight, spectacle of a sight which gives pleasure, To saturate your sight with pleasures.
-Aesch. PB 300 Learn to know yourself and adapt yourself to new ways;
for NEW also is the ruler among the gods.
If you hurl forth words so harsh and of such whetted edge,
perhaps Zeus may hear you,
-Aristoph. Birds 1716 He is entering with his bride at his side, whose beauty no human tongue can express; in his hand he brandishes the lightning, the winged shaft of Zeus; [1715] perfumes of unspeakable sweetness pervade the ethereal realms. 'Tis a glorious spectacle to see the clouds of incense wafting in light whirlwinds before the breath of the zephyr! But here he is himself. Divine Muse! let thy sacred lips begin with songs of happy omen.OPPOSITE -Mathema that which is learned, a lesson, learning, knowledge,
Matt. 27:57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea,
named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus’ disciple:
Matt. 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,
All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Matt. 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach [matheteuo become pupil] all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Matt. 28:20 Teaching them to observe
all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen
Acts 14:21 And when they had preached the gospel to that city,
and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,
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.
Hdt. 1.207 [2] Now, if you think that you and the army that you lead are immortal, I have no business giving you advice;
but if you know that you and those whom you rule are only men,
then I must first teach you this: men's fortunes are on a wheel,
which in its turning does not allow the same man to prosper forever
-‘Xen. Sym. 2.1 When the tables had been removed and the guests had poured a libation and sung a hymn, there entered a man from Syracuse, to give them an evening's merriment. He had with him a fine flute-girl, a dancing-girl—one of those skilled in acrobatic tricks,—and a very handsome boy, who was expert at playing the cither and at dancing; the Syracusan made money by exhibiting their performances as a spectacle.
The story continues by comparing this to "righteousnss" and "nobility" which would be to teach what you know to be true.
-Aristoph. Kn. 507
The Chorus moves forward and faces the audience.
Moreover, he knows that you are fickle by nature and betray your poets when they grow old. [520] What fate befell Magnes, when his hair went white? Often enough had he triumphed over his rivals; he had sung in all keys, played the lyre and fluttered wings;
The only songs at the banquet were, [530] “Doro, shod with lying tales” and “Adepts of the Lyric Muse,” so great was his renown.2Pet. 2:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whomTHE MARK:
the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
2Pet. 2:3 And through covetousness shall they
with feigned words make merchandise of you:
whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not,
2Pet. 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity,
they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness,
those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
2Pet. 2:19 While they promise them liberty,
they themselves are the servants of corruption:
for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
"See how they sang! "That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of music, like David." Musical sounds gratified their auricular sensibilities, and they chanted to the "viol." Here is the lust of the ear... What a description this of a people that lived and wrought entirely for the senses! They were practical materialists. They had no spiritual vision, sensibilities, or experience. Their imperishable souls were submerged in the deep flowing sea of mere animal pleasures... There is, indeed, a reference to intellectual effort, for it is said, they invented to themselves instruments of music. Carnal indulgencies has ever been and is now as much, if not more than ever, the great employer of man's inventive faculties. (Pulpit Commentary, The Book of Amos, p. 131).
the Word never conforms to the World from whom God hides Himself
Why is that a constant warning?That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before
by the holy prophets, [by the Spirit of Christ 1 Peter 1:11; Rev 19:10]
and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: 2 Pet 3:2
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers,GOD DID NOT COMMAND THE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM OR THE KING. Therefore, preachers who use 2 Chronicles 29 as God's COMMAND for "instrumental praise" and "we should not be disobedient" are ignorant of the whole story line. Because they intend to sow discord expecting that many of you will leave your own property, they are condemned as liars:
walking after their own lusts, 2 Pet 3:3
-Empaigma mocking, delusions, magikes, tekhnes. [soothsayer, rhetoric, crafty, cunning] Isa 66:4
Here are the people who are ordained for damnation:
Acts 13:27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers,
because they knew him not,
nor yet the voices of the prophets
which are read every sabbath day,
they have fulfilled them in condemning him.ISRAEL FELL FROM GRACE BECAUSE OF MUSICAL IDOLATRY. Exodus 32Is. 66:3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.Changelings KNOW and calculate the losses that many will be cast out of the synagogue.
Is. 66:4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them;
because when I called, none did answer;
when I spake, they did not hear:
but they did evil before mine eyes,
and chose that in which I delighted not.
Is. 66:5 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word;
your brethren that hated you,
that cast you out for my name’s sake,
said, Let the LORD be glorified:
but he shall appear to your joy,
and they shall be ashamed.
Is. 66:6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple,
a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
-Vox a voice, sound, tone, cry, call. “theatrum ita resonans,
In Isaiah 30 the marks of sight and sound of God driving His enemies into Hell will be wind, string and percussion instruments
Amos 8:1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me:
and behold a basket of summer fruit. (Catamites)
Amos 8:2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou?
And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me,
The end is come upon my people of Israel;
I will not again pass by them any more.
Amos 8:3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day,
saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place;
they shall cast them forth with silence.
Howlings point to the Cynic (old style praise singing) which Paul excluded from worship. This clearly defines the "new style of praise singing" which is a MARK of the Beast.
Psalm 137.[8] Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, He will be happy who rewards you, As you have served us.
H3213 yâlal yaw-lal' A primitive root; to howl (with a wailing tone) or yell (with a boisterous one):—(make to) howl, be howling.
-Empaizo sport, sing, delude, deluded of revenue.
-Aristoph. Thes. 966
Chorus
[966] but since we want something fresh, we are going through the rhythmic steps of the round dance for the first time.
The BEAST: a new style of singing, comedy, tragedy, drama, a strange god
Chorus
Start off [970] while you sing to the god of the lyre [Abaddon, Apollyon] and to the chaste goddess armed with the bow. Hail! thou god who flingest thy darts so far, grant us the victory! The homage of our song is also due to Here, the goddess of marriage, [975] who interests herself in every chorus and guards the approach to the nuptial couch.
Chorus
I also pray Hermes, the god of the shepherds, and Pan and the beloved Graces to bestow a benevolent smile [980] upon our songs. Let us lead off anew, let us double our zeal during our solemn days, and especially let us observe a close fast.
Panos gonos, sperma in magicScoffers-Paizo
Play like a child, sport Pass., alla pepaistai metriōs hēmin, of the chorus, Ar. Th.1227.4. play on a musical instrument, h.Ap.206: c. acc., “Pan ho kalamophthogga paizōn” Ar.Ra.230; dance and sing, Pi. O.1.16. Pl,ay amorously
-Aristoph. Thes. 1227
Leader of the Chorus
Go your way! and a pleasant journey to you! But our sports have lasted long enough; it is time for each of us to be off home; and may the two goddesses [1230] reward us for our labours!
Ex. 32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.ACappella worship teams sing "organum" and are legalistic end runs to impose organic instruments.
-Ludo gamble away your whole inheritance. Have some fun (in church)
To spend in play or amusement, to sport away: to throw away one's labor, to labor in vain. Deceive, delude take captive.II. Trop. A. To sport, play with any thing, to practise as a pastime, amuse one's self with any thing:—Esp., to play on an instrument of music, to make or compose music or song
In 1 Corinthians 10 Paul called it DEMON WORSHIP.
YOU CAN FALL TOO: CHRIST GIVES YOU CERTAIN MARKS
2Pet. 3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before,
beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked,
fall from your own stedfastness.
Rom. 12:16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.THE ONLY SOLUTION FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT WANT TO BE LED ASTRAY DRESSED AS FLUTE GIRLS.
HOW CAN YOU MISS CLEAR DIRECT COMMANDS:
Rom. 15:4 For whatsoever things
were written aforetime were written for our learning,
that through patience and through
comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.
Rom. 15:5 Now the God of patience and of comfort
grant you to be of the same mind
one with another according to Christ Jesus:
Rom. 15:6 that with one accord ye may with one mouth
glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Only women and perverted males were allowed to perform for goddess worship. In Judaism and Catholicism only MALES were permitted to be clergy singers (a first popular apostasy) but they had to perform the roles of women. And that is how you attract the world.
-Plut. Caes. 10Not before David does history know of any male who sang and played instruments. In Greek Society we are told that they are either "drunk, perverted or just having fun."
10. At the time of which I speak, Pompeia was celebrating this festival, and Clodius, who was still beardless and on this account thought to pass unnoticed, assumed the dress and implements of a lute-girl and went to the house, looking like a young woman. He found the door open, and was brought in safely by the maid-servant there, who was in the secret; [2] but after she had run on ahead to tell Pompeia and some time had elapsed, Clodius had not the patience to wait where he had been left, and so, as he was wandering about in the house (a large one) and trying to avoid the lights,
an attendant of Aurelia came upon him and asked him to play with her,
as one woman would another, and when he refused,
she dragged him forward and asked who he was and whence he came.
[3] Clodius answered that he was waiting for Pompeia's Abra (this was the very name by which the maid was called), and his voice betrayed him. The attendant of Aurelia at once sprang away with a scream to the lights and the throng, crying out that she had caught a man. The women were panic-stricken, and Aurelia put a stop to the mystic rites of the goddess [Bona Dea] and covered up the emblems. Then she ordered the doors to be closed and went about the house with torches, searching for Clodius.
Cicero, chapters xxviii. and xxix.
THE FALL: the meaning of the New Wineskin who tried to seduce Jesus.
DEGENERATE: -Ekpiptō Let Phrugisti or Phrygian mode of HARMONY SLIP IN.
12. [select] of actors or dramatic pieces, to be hissed off the stage, D.18.265, Arist.Po.1456a18, 1459b31 : so of orators, Pl.Grg.517a, cf.Phlb.13d.-Harmonia IV. in Music, stringing, “ha. toxou kai luras” Heraclit.51, cf. Pl.Smp.187a: hence, method of stringing, musical scale
The Phrygians speak of Dionysus or Bacchus.: Look to the Hills
-Eur. Ba. 135 [145] The Bacchic one, raising the flaming torch of pine on his thyrsos, [shaken reed] like the smoke of Syrian incense, darts about, arousing the wanderers with his racing and dancing, agitating them with his shouts, [150] casting his rich locks into the air. And among the Maenad cries his voice rings deep: “Go, Bacchae, go, Bacchae, with the luxury of Tmolus that flows with gold, [155] sing of Dionysus, beneath the heavy beat of drums, celebrating in delight the god of delight with Phrygian shouts and cries, [160] when the sweet-sounding sacred pipe sounds a sacred playful tune suited [165] to the wanderers, to the mountain, to the mountain!” And the Bacchante, rejoicing like a foal with its grazing mother, rouses her swift foot in a gamboling dance.
Click to see the full MARK of falling under the Babylon Mother of Harlots (Rev 17-18)
2Pet. 3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
Philodemus held as self deceptive the view that music mediated religious ecstasy. He saw the entire condition induced by the noise of cymbals and tambourines as a disturbance of the spirit.
He found it significant that, on the whole,
only women and effeminant men fell into this folly.
Accordingly, nothing of value could be attributed to music; it was no more than a slave of the sensation of pleasure, which satisfied much in the same way that food and drink did. Johannes QuastenIs. 3.1 For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, The whole supply of bread, And the whole supply of water;
John 6:62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?Is. 3:2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent,
John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life
Isa 55:1 HO, every one that thirsteth,
come ye to the waters,
and he that hath no money;
come ye, buy, and eat; yea,
come, buy wine and milk WITHOUT MONEY
and WITHOUT PRICE.
Is. 55:10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven,
and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth,
and maketh it bring forth and bud,
that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
Is. 55:11 So shall MY word be that goeth forth out of my mouth:
it shall not return unto me void,
but it shall accomplish that which I please,
and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
and the ancient,
Is. 3:3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man,
and the counseller,
and the cunning artificer, [Architect)
and the eloquent orator.
-Eloquium poets, and their imitators among prose writers.Is. 3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
-Pulpitium stage for disputations and especially for actors (not in a true church according to Christ in prophecy and Paul in 1 Corinthians 1.
-Mysticus Vanus a fan for winnowing grain in the bacchic festival. Jesus came as the "fanner" to baptize the evil with WIND and FIRE.
-Mustikos , ē, on, A. connected with the mysteries, “telos” A.Fr.387; m. Iakkhos the mystic chant Iacchus, Hdt.8.65; “khoiroi”
-Hdt. 8.65 Every year the Athenians observe this festival for the Mother and the Maiden, and any Athenian or other Hellene who wishes is initiated. [sexually] The voice which you hear is the ‘Iacchus’ they cry at this festival.” To this Demaratus replied, “Keep silent and tell this to no one else. [5] If these words of yours are reported to the king, you will lose your head, and neither I nor any other man will be able to save you, so be silent.
-Aristoph. Ach. 764 There are always code words to keep those being defeated placid.
-Effemino to make womanish, effeminate, to enervate: B. In mal. part., that submits to unnatural lust
-Cic. Planc. 35.86 Was it a very formidable thing for me to fight with the sword with the relics of those men, whom, when they were flourishing with their strength unimpaired, I had defeated without the sword? The basest and most infamous consuls in the memory of man,—as both the beginning of their conduct and as their recent termination of those affairs, show them to have been, (one of whom lost his army, and the other sold it,)—having bought their provinces, had deserted the senate, and the republic, and all good men.
When no one knew what were the feelings of those men who by means of their armies, and their arms, and their riches, were the most powerful men in the state,
then that voice, rendered insane by its infamous debaucheries,
made effeminate by its attendance on holy altars,
kept crying out in a most ferocious manner that both these men and the consuls were acting in concert with him.Needy men were armed against the rich, abandoned men against the good, slaves against their masters.
Is. 3:5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable
-Virus sperm or semen, poison liquid Amatorius I. loving, amorous, relating to love (sensual), amatory: a means of exciting love. Poesis poetry to excite love. Medicamentum an enchantment.HOW TO TURN A CHUCH INTO AN EVIL WOMAN:
-Tumultuor I. v. dep. n. [tumultus], to make a bustle or disturbance, to be in great agitation or confusion, be in an uproar, raise a tumult, confused, aggitated, oratio,
But do not, I beseech thee, give full vent to thy anger, nor doom to destruction an ancient city, guiltless alike of the past and of the present trouble. I caused the one, and in my own person now pay the forfeit. Pactyas has caused the other, he to whom thou gavest Sardis in charge; let him bear the punishment.
Grant, then, forgiveness to the Lydians, and to make sure of their never rebelling against thee, or alarming thee more,
send and forbid them to keep any weapons of war,
command them to wear tunics under their cloaks,
and to put buskins upon their legs,
........and make them bring up their sons to cithern-playing (Kitharizein),
singing (psallein),
........and shop-keeping (Hucksterism).So wilt thou soon see them become women instead of men,
and there will be no more fear of their revolting from thee."
-Kitharizo play the Phormiggi the Harp of ApolloArassô of any violent impact, with collat. notion of rattling, clanging, as of horses, hoplais, pound in a mortar, strike with a shower of stones.
a). kitharên strike the lyre, Orph.A.382; humnon, melos
2. c. dat. modi, arassein tina oneidesi, kakois, assail with reproaches or threats, II. Pass., to be dashed against, dash one against the other-Huckstering Kapeleo:
THAT'S HOW YOU TURN THE ENEMY (SUPPORTERS) INTO NEUTERED GALLI
Christ has Prempted:Paul did not SELL the word of God: that would be prostitution or adultery.
2 Cor 2. [17] For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
Logos The Word (Christ), true principle, by the rule, acording to plan. Law, Precept. A boundary.
-Opposite Epagoge bringing into one's aid, alurement, enticement, incantation, 4. allurement, enticement, “tais elpisi kai tais e.” D.19.322. b. incantation, spell,
7. leading away into captivity, captivity, LXX Is.14.17: generally, distress, misery, ib.Si.23.14 (pl.)
Without Prooimion A. opening, introduction; in Music, prelude, overture, Pi.P.1.4; in poems, proëm, preamble,Pind. P. 1 Golden lyre, rightful
joint possession of Apollo [Abaddon, Apollyon]
and the violet-haired Muses, [Filthy shepherds, sorcerers Rev 18]
to which the dance-step listens, the beginning of splendid festivity; and singers obey your notes, whenever, with your quivering strings, you prepare to strike up chorus-leading preludes.
[5] You quench even the warlike thunderbolt of everlasting fire. And the eagle sleeps on the scepter of Zeus, relaxing his swift wings on either side, the king of birds;
and you pour down a dark mist over his curved head,
a sweet seal on his eyelids. Slumbering, he ripples his liquid back,
[10] under the spell of your pulsing notes.
Even powerful Ares, setting aside the rough spear-point, warms his heart in repose; your shafts charm the minds even of the gods, by virtue of the skill of Leto's son and the deep-bosomed Muses.
But those whom Zeus does not love are stunned with terror when they hear the cry of the Pierian Muses, on earth or on the irresistible sea;
Skill Sophia cleverness or skill in handicraft and art, in music and singing, poetry. Divination. Sorcery says John in Revelation 18 always performed by the "lusted after fruits."Opposite Pathos. Personal stories, creating passion, excitement, emotional presentation.
Opposite Poetry anything man can produce, compose, act or sing.
Opposite EnMetros III. in metre, metrical, Pl.Smp.197c, Phdr.252b,
Opposite Psilometer verse not accompanied by musicSpeak Laleo
Opposite Aristos the best of its kind in birth, rank, noblest, a chief, bravest
Is. 8:19 And when they shall say unto you,Styles and traditions and preferences must confess that we are NOT going to follow the direct commend that elders teach that which has been taught.
Seek unto them that have familiar spirits,
and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter:
should not a people seek unto their God?
for the living to the dead?
Isaiah 8.[19] et cum dixerint ad vos quaerite a pythonibus et a divinis qui stridunt in incantationibus suis numquid non populus a Deo suo requirit pro vivis a mortuis
In-canto is the meaning of a Laded Burden meaning to create spiritual anxiety.
I. To sing in, To say over, mutter, or chant a magic formula against some one:Incantātĭo ,I. an enchanting, enchantment (post-class.): “magicae: incantationum vires,”Măgĭcus , a, um, adj., = magikos,I. of or belonging to magic, magic, magical (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): “artes,” Verg. A. 4, 493: “magicis auxiliis uti,”: “superstitiones,” : “vanitates,” Plin. 30, 1, 1, § 1: di magici, that were invoked by incantations (as Pluto, Hecate, Proserpine), “but lingua,” skilled in incantations, “cantus,” Juv. 6, 610: “magicae resonant ubi Memnone chordae,”
Of Phythagoras, the KOSMOS: Jesus will not pray for them. Paul silenced them in Romans 14.
Măgĭcē magikē (sc. tekhnē), [singers, instrument players, religious craftsmen] I. the magic art, magic, sorcery (post-Aug.): pariter utrasque artes effloruisse, medicinam dico magicenque, “magices factio,”
Christ has PreEmptied:
Is. 8:20 To the law and to the testimony:
if they speak not according to this word,
it is because there is no light in them.
THE ONLY RESOURCE FOR A GODLY CHRISTIAN WHO CANNOT GO BEYOND.
1Pet. 1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow
Rev. 19:10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.Once you grasp that Jesus Christ is the only original speaker and the purpose was to Rest: not seeking your own pleasure or speaking your own words (Isa 58), the quest for modern styles shows a disconnect from Christ's purpose. That leaves you with the optional styles of speaking or reading. The direct command and even approved example of Jesus was to stand up to read and then sit down to discuss it or answer questions about that assigned text.
The synagogue outlawed what we call "preaching" which is to used a passage as a launch pad and then soar into your own vain imaginaiton and just make up the story line even if you have to lie a bit.
No leadership team with an agenda has anything to offer.
Is. 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts:
and let him return unto the LORD,
and he will have mercy upon him;
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Christ has Prempted:
Is. 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
Is. 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Is. 55:10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven,
and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth,
and maketh it bring forth and bud,
that it may give seed to the sower,
and bread to the eater:
Is. 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth:
it shall not return unto me void,
but it shall accomplish that which I please,
and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.Is. 59:20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion,
and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
Is. 59:21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD;
My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth,
shall not depart out of thy mouth,
nor out of the mouth of thy seed,
nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed,
saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.Is it blasphemy to think that the Written Word of the Living Word has run its course. Did Christ The Spirit not anticipate "changed cultures?" And we in these end times have the power almighty God did not have?
If you once grasp that God is God and we are not then the urge to invent presentations styles will no longer be in the mindset.
God says that He HATES people who sow discord. He also HATES wine, women and music in the holy places pretending that it is for Him. History proves that you will drive off more of the owners than you can appease those demanding a "new style." Sad to say, this is the agenda of some driving the Purpose Driven Cult.
If you do not know the meaning of "Christian" then the evidence is looking for ways to enhance the "worship service" which was not in the vocabulary of Christ in the Church in the Wilderness or Jesus Christ's teachings or in the historic Church of Christ for centuries.
Christ has Prempted and Prescribed:
Matt. 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,
All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Matt. 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost: {Jesus Christ}
Matt. 28:20 Teaching them to observe
all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.Christian means to teach what CHRIST taught: Peter makes that the prophets and the prophecies made more perfect. These, he and others left as the Eye- and Ear-witness of the Risen Christ. These are left as a mark of false teachers.
That's the "pool of preference" called Commands, examples and inferences affirmed by all historic scholars. People must be creative to enhance the spoken and written word which is for education and not arousal.
If you do not know the meaning of "Church" then the evidence is creating a Worship Institute which Jesus came to destroy along with the "instituters." The laded burdens in Hebrew and Greek speak of the repeating songs calculated to create spiritual anxiety to "make the lambs dumb before the slaughter."
Christ, the "Rock" ordained the Holy Convocation, qahal, synagogue or Church of Christ in the wilderness.No one in the Bible or recorded history until a liberal Rabbi imposed an organ in a synagogue. The judge, being just, made sure that the musical discorders were forced to leave and build their own synagogue.
It was INCLUSIVE of Rest, Reading and Rehearsing the Word of God: written or in the mind of any APT tribal elder.
It was EXCLUSIVE of "vocal or instrumental rejoicing." That is the alarm or triumph over which would MARK Judas trying to panic Jesus His familiar friend."
The Apostles affirmed this absolute pattern: no godly Jew went to church services at the temple.
The PATTERN which prepared the Jews and Gentiles to become Christians (Disciples only)
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old timeThis was the pattern exampled by Jesus, commanded by the word "ekklesia," Practiced and commanded in the Bible and recorded history for almost 400 yers.
hath in every city
them that preach him,
being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
2Cor. 3:13 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face,AT SOME TIME THE SIGN WILL BE THE RISE OF THE BABYLON MOTHER OF HARLOTS. (Rev 17)
that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
2Cor. 3:14 But their minds were blinded:
for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away
in the reading of the old testament;
which vail is done away in Christ. [still valid]
2Cor. 3:15 But even unto this day,
when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
2Cor. 3:16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord,
the vail shall be taken away
1Tim. 4:13 Till I come, give attendance to (public) reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
"Christians" who understand "church" should never tolerate or enable those who need to guild the lily.
Justin Martyr, Pattern: Weekly Reading of the Word
"And on the day called Sunday, (th tou Hliou legomenh hmera.) all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place,
You should read the absolute PATTERNISM for the Synagogue which never changedReading the assigned text: and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits;
Discussiing the assigned text: then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things.
John Calvin's version:John Calvin proposed to Restore The Church of Christ by stripping off all of the superstitious legalism.
John Calvin Necessity of Reforming (Restoring) the Church of Christt
Because the warning is that some of the old TRADITONALISM will be put down and NEW STYLES introduced and confessed to be DIVISIVE, we will look at the extreme of instrumental music actually repudiated in many of these prooft texts.
A major mark of the Beast (hunters after lust) is "a new style of song or drama." Many observers have warned about the effeminate style of rhetoric and church ritual.
JUST IN CASE, THIS IS THE PATTERNISM FOR THE END-TIME CHURCH HAVING LOST ITS CANDLESTICK.
For those who can't find any problems with musical and theatrical performers (Jesus called them hypocrites), we might jump to the end where John defines the end of the line for those who do not know or honor the Word of God in Christ.
Quasten notes that: "Women's singing was a vital part of all pagan worship. In very early times women became priestly singers of the gods in the temple.
Christ has PreMarked:
"Women and girls from the different ranks of society were proud to enter the service of the gods as singers and musicians. The understanding of this service was universal: these singers constituted the 'harem of the gods'."Christ has PreJudgedRev. 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials,
and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee
the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
Of the Brides exposing themselves against direct commands: "Musical worship teams" stalked into some churches claiming to be God in Jesus Christ: "watch us and we can lead you into the presence of God."
˜ of the watery elements. Many of these presided over waters or springs which were believed to inspire those that drank of them, and hence the nymphs themselves were thought to be endowed with prophetic or oracular power, and to inspire men with the same, and to confer upon them the gift of poetry. Inspired soothsayers or priests are therefore sometimes called numphogēptoi. (Plat. Phaedr. p. 421e.) Their powers, however, vary with those of the springs over which they preside; some were thus regarded as having the power of restoring sick persons to health. With Pan, the Seileni and Satyrs, whom they join in their Bacchic revels and dances.
As their influence was thus exercised in all departments of nature, they frequently appear in connection with higher divinities, as, for example, with Apollo, the prophetic god and the protector of herds and flocks.
Apollo is Abaddon or Apollyon of John's warning. He WANTS your flock.
Rev. 17:2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,
and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Rev. 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness:
and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast,
full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. (can mean musical horns)
Therion Satyric drama. Hunting in an erotic sense. III. as a term of reproach, beast, creature, “hē mousikē aei ti kainon thērion tiktei”
Meaning A new Style of song or drama!
A. mousikosRev. 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,
B. aei always
C. kainos , esp. of new dramas, the representation of the new tragedies, (Aphrodisias dedicated to Aphrodite (ZOE); comedy, sexual love, pleasure, a woman's form of oath, Aster or Venus or ZOE.
Therion
D. Tikto mostly of the mother
E. of Rhea one of the zoogonic or vivific principles
and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls,
having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Rev. 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written,
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
SHE USES LUSTED AFTER FRUITS: THE SAME ONES IN AMOS
THUS hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. Amos 8:1Rev. 18:14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me,
The end is come upon my people of Israel;
I will not again pass by them any more. Amos 8:2Keluwb (h3619) kel-oob'; from the same as 3611; a bird-trap (as furnished with a clap-stick or treadle to spring it); hence a basket (as resembling a wicker cage): - basket, cage.
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. Je.5:27
Keleb (h3611) keh'leb; from an unused root mean. to yelp, or else to attack; a dog; hence (by euphemism) a male prostitute: - dog.
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly [multitude, swarm] of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. Ps.22:16
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Is. 56:10
Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. Is.56:11
And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the Lord: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy. Je.15:3
Bacchus or Dionysus was one of the diet sects silenced in Romans 14. Bacchus is Dionysus or the old wineskin god of wine, perversion and music:
Rev. 18:21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea,Opôr-a belonging to bakcheios III. metaph., life's summer, the time of youthful ripeness, Pi.I.2.5
Bakch-eios or Bakcheios, A. of or belonging to Bacchus and his rites, botrus S.Fr.255.2 ; nomos, rhuthmos X.Smp.9.3 , etc.: hence, frenzied, rapt
Pindar, Ishmian 2.[1] The men of old, Thrasybulus, who mounted the chariot of the Muses with their golden headbands, joining the glorious lyre, lightly shot forth their honey-voiced songs for young men, if one was handsome and had [5] the sweetest ripeness that brings to mind Aphrodite on her lovely throne. [6] For in those days the Muse was not yet a lover of gain, nor did she work for hire. And sweet gentle-voiced odes did not go for sale, with silvered faces, from honey-voiced Terpsichore. But as things are now, she bids us heed [10] the saying of the Argive man, which comes closest to actual truth: [11]
“Money, money makes the man,” he said, when he lost his wealth and his friends at the same time.
saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down,
and shall be found no more at all.
Rev. 18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters,
shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, [theater builders-stage managers]
of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee;
and the sound of a millstone [piping sound to locate the grinder-prostitute]
shall be heard no more at all in thee;
The Lampstands may be gone:
Rev. 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee;
and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee:
These are the NYMPHS and the NYMPH users in pagan prostitute and sodomite worship.
Nympha a bride, mistress, goddess, the Muses
I let my business wait upon their sport.
So they began to sing, voice answering voice
in strains alternate--for alternate strains
the Muses then were minded to recall--
first Corydon, then Thyrsis in reply.
CORYDON
“Libethrian Nymphs, who are my heart's delight,
grant me, as doth my Codrus, so to sing--
next to Apollo he--or if to this
we may not all attain, my tuneful pipe
here on this sacred pine shall silent hang.”for thy merchants were the great men of the earth;
for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Rev. 18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets,
and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
Rev. 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Rev. 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
No one promoting musical worship to silence the "school of the Word" will quote the prophets. There, Christ in Spirit repudiated all of the sacrificial system and marked the Civil-Military-Clergy sect as robbers and parasites. In effect, they DO murder the prophets all of whom repudiated making "school of the Word" into the boasted "theater for holy entertainment."
CONFESSED APPLYING THE INFILTRATE AND DIVERT PATTERNISM
TIME IS SHORT: THE SIGNS ARE CERTAIN AND NOT TO BE REPENTED OF.
THE LEADERSHIP: David Young, John 17:2, 23: In the last recorded prayer Jesus offered before His crucifixion, He spoke these words: “I pray also for those who will believe in me ... that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you …. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me” (John 17:20, 23).1
THAT'S NOT THE WHOLE MESSAGE: Jesus prayed for unity BASED ON HIS WORD and the EXCLUSION of the WORLD. There is no urge to be "united" on the basis of personal opinions or sermons.
A Church of Christ is called OUT of the World and it will not tolerate the WORLD stealing the church house of widows so they can have their style. There are LOTS of musical churches and Spugeon could not invent a word vile enough to define a preacher who would accept people's money and NOT agree with them.
Christ has PreVented the World:
John 17:6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me
OUT of the WORLD: thine they were, and thou gavest them me;
and they have kept thy word.
Judas, the Son of Perdition, was OF the World: The Judas Bag was ALWAYS attached to the flute case of "wineskin" religious musicians. You will remember that Psalm 41 prophesied that "Judas" would try to musically alarm or "triumph over" Jesus Christ. The DSS version is explicit in proving that the Levites would have to brand "Messiah" as Beliar or Beel-zebul before they could "set ambush" and turn the army loose on Him. Psalm 41 as the PATTERNISM for the latter day musical attack on Jesus.
Glosokomon (g1101) gloce-sok'-om-on; from 1100 (speaking in tongues) 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.
It is made up of two words:
1. Glossa (from Strong's g1100) means "speaking in tongues" especially an unacquired one.
2. Kosmos (g2889) means the "orderly arrangement" or the "adorning" world. this is derived from (g2864 or Komizo which means "to carry off."
Kosmos (g2889) kos'-mos; prob. from the base of 2865; orderly arrangement, i.e. decoration; by impl. the world (in a wide or nar˜row sense, includ. its inhab., lit. or fig. [mor.]): - adorning, world.
PAUL SILENCED THE PHYTHAGOREANS--ONE OF THE SECTS IDENTIFIED BY DIET IN THE MARKETPLACE
"Yet, through all there was an overarching harmony. The Greek word cosmos which we translate by universe originally meant beauty and harmony. The Pythagoreans discovered mathematical formulae for the musical harmonies. They believed in the harmony of the sounds produced by the movement of the stars. Therefore, they spoke of cosmic harmony of the spheres, each of which has a different sound, but all together creating a harmonious sound. If you delete the half-poetic, mythological elements from such ideas, then you can say that they had a universal, ecstatic interpretation of reality." (Tillich, Paul, A History of Christian Thought, Touchstone, p. 333).
THE meaning of "praise singing" and "singers" was that they could keep the gods from failing--AGAIN. All such worship as the works of human hands (raising, clapping, waving or picking) is an effort to APPEASE God because you have no assurance.
APOPIS also called Apep, Apepi, or Rerek, ancient Egyptian demon of chaos, who had the form of a serpent and, as the foe of the sun god, Re, represented all that was outside the ordered cosmos. Although many serpents symbolized divinity and royalty, Apopis threatened the underworld and symbolized evil. Each night Apopis encountered Re at a particular hour in the sun god's ritual journey through the underworld in his divine bark. Seth, who rode as guardian in the front of Re's bark, attacked him with a spear and slew him, but the next night Apopis, who could not be finally killed, was there again to attack Re. The Egyptians believed that they could help maintain the order of the world and assist Re by performing rituals against Apopis.
Rev. 12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle,
that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place,
where she is nourished for a time, and times,
and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
That is why the Church of Christ is suffering reproaches: it cannot court fame and fortune and favor:
Heb. 13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood,Rev. 12:15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman,
suffered without the gate.
Heb. 13:13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, (barracks, marketplace)
bearing his reproach.
Heb. 13:14 For here have we no continuing city,
but we seek one to come.
Heb. 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually,
that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. {banqueting}
G3789 ophis of'-is Probably from G3700 (through the idea of sharpness of vision); a snake, figuratively (as a type of sly cunning) an artful malicious person, especially Satan:—serpent. equiv. to drakōn in Hes.Th.322, 825: metaph., ptēnon argēstēn ophin, of an arrow, A.Eu.181.The "serpent" in the garden of Eden is defined as a Musical Enchanter(ess). It is related to brass bell-metal and to the flute.
THE SON OF PERDITION MAY BE ON SCHEDULE
John 17:7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are OF THEE
John 17:8 For I have given unto them the WORDS which thou gavest me;
..........and they have received them,
..........and have known surely that I came out from thee,
..........and they have BELIEVED that thou didst send me.
John 17:9 I pray for THEM: I NOT for the world,
.......... but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
The WORLD points to Pythagoras one of the "diet" sects Paul silenced in Romans 14 to make the ekklesia, synagogue or school of the Word possible in Romans 15.
Pythagoras and the Musical Worship of the Starry Host. This defines the STAR worship in Jerusalem
John 17:10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
John 17:11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee.
.......... Holy Father, keep through thine OWN NAME
.......... those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
The "Son" never speaks on His own: what He hears from the Father He simply articulates.
John 17:12 While I was with them in the world,
.......... I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept,
.......... and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition;
.......... that the scripture might be fulfilled.
John 17:13 And now COME I TO THEE;
.......... and these things I SPEAK in the world,
.......... that they might have my joy FULFILLED in themselves.
John 17:14 I have given them
.......... THY WORD; and
.......... the world hath HATETH them,
.......... because they are not of the world,
.......... even as I am not of the world.The Son of Perdition was Judas the Sicarri or Assassin. The Judas Bag was "for carrying the mouthpieces of wind instruments."
THE LEADERSHIP: Ever since our beginning in 1947, the North Boulevard Church of Christ has sought to live up to Jesus’ prayer for unity among our members. We seek to “make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace” (Eph. 4:3). We want to obey the biblical exhortation “that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought” (1 Cor. 1:10).
Christ gave gifted men to make sure that
what people call "worship" could never happen. Only after excluding the
rhetoricians, singers, instrument players, actors etc is it possible to
conduct the assembly which is a WORD OF GOD ONLY teaching activity. If
leaders permit or promote what Paul excludes then they destroy the
unity. See Ephesians 4.
Eph 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro,
and carried about with every wind of doctrine,
by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
-Fluctuo fluctus, to move in the manner of waves, i. e. to wave, rise in waves, undulate, to move to and fro, be driven hither and thither
I. Trop., to be restless, unquiet, uncertain, doubtful; to rage, swell; to waver, hesitate, vacillate, fluctuate, Oratio II. In partic., formal language, artificial discourse,
-Oratio E. A prayer, an address to the Deity (eccl. Lat.): “respice ad orationem servi tui,” Vulg. 3 Reg. 8, 28: “per orationes Dominum rogantes,” id. 2 Macc. 10, 16: “pernoctans in oratione Dei,” id. Luc. 6, 12.—Also absol., prayer, the habit or practice of prayer: “perseverantes in oratione,” Vulg. Act. 1, 14: “orationi instate,” id. Col. 4, 2; cf. Gell. 13, 22,CHURCH MUST EXCLUDE ALL OF THE CUNNING CRAFTSMEN.
-cĭto . To put into quick motion, to move or drive violently or rapidly, to hurl, shake, rouse, excite, provoke, incite, stimulate, promote,
Panourgia (g3834) pan-oorg-ee'-ah; from 3835; adroitness, i.e. (in a bad sense) trickery or sophistry: - (cunning) craftiness, subtilty.
-Panourg-êma A. knavish trick, villainy, S.El.1387 (lyr.), LXX Si.1.6 (v.l.); sophistry, Gal.5.251; cf. panourgeuma.
1Cor. 3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you
seemeth to be wise in this world,
let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
1Cor. 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.
For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
1Cor. 3:20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
-Sophia A. cleverness or skill in handicraft and art, as in carpentry, tektonos, hos rha te pasēs eu eidē s. Il.15.412; of the Telchines, Pi.O.7.53; hē entekhnos s., of Hephaestus and Athena, Pl.Prt.32 1d; of Daedalus and Palamedes, X.Mem.4.2.33, cf. 1.4.2; in music and singing, tekhnē kai s. h.Merc.483, cf. 511; in poetry, Sol.13.52, Pi.O.1.117Discord happens only by those who deny verse 5
1 Corinthians 1:5 That in every thing
ye are enriched by him,
in all utterance, and
in all knowledge;The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness. Isaiah 33:5
He will be the sure foundation [security] for your times,
a rich store of salvation
and wisdom and knowledge;
the fear of the LORD
is the key to this treasure Isaiah 33:61 Corinthians 1:7 So that ye come behind in no gift;
waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:1 Corinthians 1:8 Who shall also confirm you unto the end,
that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.1 Corinthians 1:9 God is faithful,
by whom ye were called
unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.The WORD of God was commanded to be READ and discussed by the Church beginning in the wilderness.
There is nothing you can do to ENHANCE or ASSIST the way God in Christ has communicated.
It is ANTI-Christian to think that you are the MISSING LINK in the power of the Gospel presented in simple words.
Now, that Jesus Christ is our Teacher and His Grace was given in the form of teaching and we are commanded to teach that which has been taught, it IS possible to teach the same thing is we teach THAT WHICH IS WRITTEN.
WE WILL SHOW THAT PAUL DEFINED THE CHURCH IN EPHESIANS 4: Click to Read
- God gave these leaders (no TOWERS or PULPITS in God's house says Isaiah and Paul) to conduct SCHOOL of the Word of God -- only.
- This would equip every believer to be able to WITHSTAND the "blowing of a hot east wind" seeking to naviate everyone away from the Word:
- this points specificially to sophists: preachers, singers and instrument players John and the Greek language identifies as SORCERERS.
THE LEADERSHIP: God has largely granted North Boulevard a spirit of unity and peace throughout the past six decades. As the congregation grows larger, however, and as more people come to us from diverse backgrounds, we must work harder to maintain the unity of the Spirit.
"Now that we have been so successful, we have to CHANGE what we are doing to BE LIKE THE WORLD so we can WIN more of the world who will bring in more division. It would be better to teach them and not let them destroy your church." We will cover Ephesians further but this is the SOLE PURPOSE of church.
Eph. 4:3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.No school or university uses Musical Praise Teams to teach Physics: they would get fired!
Eph. 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some,
evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
Eph. 4:12 For the perfecting of the saints,
for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: [education only]
Eph. 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of THE faith,
and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man,
unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
THESE ORIGINALLY INSPIRED GIFTED MEN GUARDED AGAINST SELF-IMPOSED LEGALISMTHE LEADERSHIP: Today more than ever we find among our members different expectations, maturity levels, styles, customs, needs, and ideas about how to do the work of the church. The call to connect the message of Christ to so many different people challenges us every day at North Boulevard.
That's what Jesus the Christ found: However, He said that the Father does not speak TO or FOR the World. He does not reveal Himself TO or THROUGH the wise. The wise are SOPHOS meaning technically trained rhetoricians, singers or instrument players:He called them hypocrites.
The Scriptures provide certain non-negotiable guidelines for how to live out the message of Christ, including how to do ministry, how to witness to the culture around us, how to live holy lives, and how to conduct our assemblies.
Beyond these non-negotiable instructions, however, the Scriptures permit Christians and churches to exercise considerable freedom and to apply God’s Word in merciful ways.
“Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment!” (James 2:12-13).
IF YOU USE THE TALENTED WHEN YOU ARE COMMANDED TO SPEAK AS THE ORACLE OF GOD YOU ARE GUILTY OF A FATAL SIN.
SPEAK IS THE MANLY, MASCULINE WAY TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T BOW TO BAAL.For if there come unto your assembly [synagogue] a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; James 2:2
And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: James 2:3
Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? James 2:4
Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? James 2:5
If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: James 2:8
But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin,
and are convinced of the law as transgressors. James 2:9
James 2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
-Loquor , cātus (quūtus), lŏquiI. inf. loquier, Naev. ap. Gell. 1, 24, 2), v. dep. n. and a. [Sanscr. lap-, to talk, whisper; Gr. lak-, elakon, laskō], to speak, talk, say (in the lang. of common life, in the tone of conversation; To speak, declare, show, indicate or express clearly:
Law -Lego II. A jurid. t. t.: aliquid, to appoint by a last will or testament, to leave or bequeath as a legacy B. liquid alicui ab aliquo, to leave one a legacy to be paid by the principal heir:
The Law of Liberty does NOT permit
NOT -Lex , -, to fasten; Lat. ligo, to bind, oblige; cf. religio,I. a proposition or motion for a law made to the people by a magistrate, a bill (cf. institutum).
-Suet. Ner. 24: “vetus lex sermonis,” Quint. 1, 5, 29: “contra leges loquendi,” id. 1, 8, 13: “lex et ratio loquendi,” for playing the citharae (guitar)
Laws of MosesLiberty: -Eleutheria freedom FROM a thing. Christ set US free from CLERGY who lades burden. Liberty from tribute, freedom of speech, from taxation
-Kakia badness in quality Plat. Phaedrus 248b intending to hurt or blind trampling. Cowardice, moral badnessChrist has Prempted:-Plat. Laws 698a they inevitably display their ignorance, inasmuch as by their acts they declare that the things reputed to be honorable and noble in a State are never anything but dross compared to silver and gold.
1Pet. 2:1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile,
and hypocrisies, and envies,
and all evil speakings,
-Hupokrisis II. Att., playing a part on the stage, 2. [ an orator's delivery, Arist.Rh.1386a32, 1403b22, 1413b18,-Aristot. Nic. Eth. 1118a.1[5] Nor yet does Temperance apply to enjoyment of the sense of smell, unless accidentally; we do not call those who are fond of the scent of fruit or robes or incense profligate, though we may be inclined so to style those who love perfumes and the smell of savory dishes,
for the profligate take pleasure in these odors because they remind them
of the objects of their desires.
[6] One may notice that other persons too like the smell of food when they are hungry; but to delight in things of this kind is a mark of the profligate, since they are the things on which the profligate's desires are set.
[7] Nor do the lower animals derive any pleasure from these senses, except accidentally. Hounds do not take pleasure in scenting hares, but in eating them; the scent merely made them aware of the hare.The lion does not care about the lowing of the ox, but about devouring it, though the lowing tells him that the ox is near, and consequently he appears to take pleasure in the sound. Similarly he is not pleased by the sight of ‘or stag or mountain goat,’ but by the prospect of a meal. [8]
Because Christ has PrePared:-Hupokritikos 2.suited for speaking or delivery, actor's art, acting a part, pretending to. Hupokrites 2. of an orator, -poikilos rhapsodist, pretender, dissembler, hypocrite , interpreter, expounder l Epos
A hypocrite is: A. -Poikilos 2. of Art, p.- humnos a song of changeful strain or full of diverse art, Pi.O.6.87; “poikilon kitharizōn” Id.N.4.14; “dedaidalmenoi pseudesi poikilois muthoi” Id.O.1.29; of style, “lexis poiētikōtera kai p.” Isoc.15.47 (Comp.); “skhēmatismoi” D.H.Is.3.
A hypocrite is: B. -Epos A. vácas 'word', 'hymn', cf. eipon):
1. song or lay accompanied by music, 8.91,17.519.
1Pet. 2:2 As newborn babes,
desire the sincere milk of the WORD,
that ye may grow thereby:
1Pet. 2:3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
1Pet. 2:16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness,
but as the servants of God.
-Eleutheros Liberty is freedom FROM a thing, independent, freedom in the assembly means SILENCE.
-Aesch. Eum. 566 Athena
Herald [Kerusso], give the signal and restrain the crowd; and let the piercing Tyrrhenian trumpet, filled with human breath, send forth its shrill blare to the people!
For while this council-hall is filling,
[570] it is good to be silent,
and for my ordinances to be learned,
by the whole city for everlasting time,
and by these appellants, so that their case may be decided well.
Christ has Prempted:
2 Peter 2:13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness,
as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time.
Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves
with their own deceivings [delusions] while they feast with you;
All musicians and rhetoricians are equated to parasites.
-Entrupo (g1792) en-troo-fah'-o; from 1722 and 5171; to revel in: - sporting selves. effeminate gamêliôi lechei [marriage couch-bed] hêdonais, playing in the wind, exult over, treat haughtily or contemptuously, made a mock of, tinos sumphorais, III. use or abuse at pleasure
-Paison paizô [pais]
4. to play (on an instrument), Hhymn. II. to sport, play, jest, joke, Hdt., Xen., etc.; p. pros tina to make sport of one, mock him,2 Peter 2:19 While they promise them liberty,
they themselves are the servants of corruption:
for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.2 Peter 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world
through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
they are again entangled therein, and overcome,
the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.THE LEADERSHIP: How do we exercise the freedom Christ has given us in such a way that reaches the most people with the Good News while at the same time maintaining the unity of the body?
Freedom means FREEDOM FROM: WE don't exercise OUR freedom to enslave YOU and make you pay for it. THE gospel is "come to me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you REST." Rest for the church in the wilderness means STOP IT. And the second part of the gospel is "Come learn of ME." If Christ in the prophets and apostles has not left a record then it is NOT Jesus teaching you while IMPOSING the burden which points to the singing styles sop popular in "church."
Since WE cannot bestow FREEDOM by anything that comes out of the human imagination--outlawed and evil continually--WE have no authority to promise freedom WHILE conspiring to add more legalistic rituals.
THE LEADERSHIP: Most churches wrestle with this tension. So do we at North Boulevard. This document and the accompanying spoken lessons delivered at North Boulevard on February 15 and 22, 2009, represent the general position of the North Boulevard elders and preaching ministers regarding how to maintain the unity of the body
while at the same time exercising the freedom Christ has given us
in order to communicate the message of Christ to a changing world around us.
We do not use lifeless instruments, or carrnal weapons nor wrestle with bows, missils or harps.
Eph. 6:12 For we WRESTLE not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in high places-Pallô, poise, sway a missile before it is thrown, sway, brandish, she drove it furiously, tripped on the shield-rim, quiver, leap, esp. in fear, II. Pass., swing, dash oneself, Pi.N.5.21; vibrate, of strings, Pl.Phd.94c (psalloito -PSALLO ap. Stob.); leap, bound, quiver, quake, phrena deimati pallôn S.OT153 (lyr.); dash along, of horses, E.El.477 (lyr.). spring upon ephallomai, leap, bound E.El.435
-Eur. Ba. 775 Pentheus
Already like fire does this insolence of the Bacchae blaze up, a great reproach for the Hellenes. [780] But we must not hesitate. Go to the Electran gates, bid all the shield-bearers and riders of swift-footed horses to assemble, as well as all who brandish the light shield and pluck [psallo] bowstrings with their hands, so that we can make an assault against [785] the Bacchae. For it is indeed too much if we suffer what we are suffering at the hands of women.Eph. 6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with TRUTH
and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
Eph. 6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Eph. 6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith,
wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.James A. Harding understood all of the commands, examples, inferences and most recorded history;
"The pastor is not a necessity. He is a FUNGUS GROWTH upon the church, the body of Christians, DWARFING its growth, PREVENTING its development of its members; and until the church GETS RID of him it will NEVER prosper as it should. In the Bible we can find all the necessities.
Paul addresses the congregation, the elders and deacons who usually get boooted by the "preachers" before they can become senior pastor and demote the elders to advising the pastors.
This document is not a creedal statement, nor is it intended to summarize every core belief at North Boulevard. There are many important matters of faith not treated in this document.
Christ has Prempted:
Rather, this document is intended to explain to the congregation
the spiritual criteria the leadership at North Boulevard uses
to make decisions about how to do ministry,
how to communicate the Good News,
how to conduct our assemblies, and the like.
THE LEADERSHIP: Furthermore, this document is not a planning document
intended to prepare the church for any particular changes we might make as a churchRather, the document is intended to describe our general approach to the work of the church—an approach that we hope honors God both by engaging our heritage and by speaking intelligibly in a changing world.
- WE ENGAGE our heritage but
- WE speak INTELLIGIBLY in a changing KOSMOS to whom God does not speak and Jesus would not pray.
THE WORD "HERITAGE" IS A RACA WORD INTENDED TO MAKE THE LAMBS SILENT: THE ROLE OF MUSIC.
The document is also intended to encourage you, the members of North Boulevard,
to join the leadership as we seek a balance between
this continuity with the PAST
and a sincere effort to communicate the Good News in the language of the present.Arousal foms of singing (the laded burden) with or without instruments has been the New Style of music which is one definition of the Beast in Revelation. It was the singing and harp playing protitute in the garden of Eden to the Babylon mother of harlots (Reve 17) who uses "lusted after fruits" (same as in Amos) as performance preachers, singers and instrument players. Our continuity with the past began with Christ Who ordained the church in the wilderness.
It was INCLUSIVE of Rest, Reading and Rehearsing the Word of God only. What honorable disciples do.
It was EXCLUSIVE of "vocal or instrumental rejoicing." What only dishonorable people would do when God is speaking when the elders teach that which has been taught.
The Synagogue in the wilderness was the ekklesia or church: it was never more than a school of the Word of God.
No Biblical scholar can have missed that. The directly commanded way to communicate any of God's Word was to PREACH it by READING it and discussing.
We weren't sincere under YOUR system but if we add music which Jesus and all recorded history defines as one of the hypocritic arts the you will be happy that we saved you from sin. Of Ezekiel 33 where Christ defined the preachers, singers and instrument players hypocrites:
JFB 30. Not only the remnant in Judea, but those at the Chebar, though less flagrantly, betrayed the same unbelieving spirit. talking against thee--Though going to the prophet to hear the word of the Lord, they criticised, in an unfriendly spirit, his peculiarities of manner and his enigmatical style (Eze 20:49); making these the excuse for their impenitence. Their talking was not directly "against" Ezekiel, for they professed to like his ministrations; but God's word speaks of things as they really are, not as they appear.
Vulgate translates, "They turn thy words into a song of their mouths." heart goeth after covetousness--the grand rival to the love of God; therefore called "idolatry," and therefore associated with impure carnal love,
as both alike transfer the heart's affection from the Creator to the creature
He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. Matthew 13:22
That IS postmodernism! Sectarians love to deceive the lambs by telling them that NOT using the permorming ARTISTS (smile) is just something WE imposed because WE were legalistic.
NO ONE IN RECORDED HISTORY PRIOR TO 1878 EVER TRIED TO USE THE BIBLE TO JUSTIFY PERFORMANCE SINGING AND INSTRUMENTS.
ALL of the Bible, church theologians and founders of denominations repudiated musical performance.
The ALL knew that it was OUTLAWED and destructive to the purpose driving the church which was EDUCATION ONLY.
The command to the elders was to "teach that which has been taught." People are NOT fools: they can understand a 2,000 year old statement even if postmodern theeologians say you CANNOT.
THE LEADERSHIP: We know that such an effort may pose a constant challenge,
but with God’s help and with patience and forbearance on the part of the church,
we believe taking the challenge head on will be well worth the effort
in reaching the lost and helping the saved to mature.The North Boulevard Elders, John Risse, and David Young 2
1. We intend to be obedient to the Scriptures.
I don't believe that!
We Believe
THE LEADERSHIP: All of North Boulevard’s leaders want North Boulevard to be a church that obeys the clear teachings of the Bible and that seeks the same experience of Christ that the New Testament church sought. We believe what the Psalms declare:
The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul. The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy, making wise the simple. The precepts of the LORD are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes. The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever. The ordinances of the LORD are sure and altogether righteous. They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb. By them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward. (Psalm 19:7-11)
Peter left "that which is written" as the only way to mark a fase teacer 2 Peter 1
2Pet. 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you
through the knowledge of God,
and of Jesus our Lord,
2Pet. 1:3 According as his divine power
hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, t
hrough the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Pet. 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises:
that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature,
having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2Pet. 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly [sophizo] devised fables,
Muthos 2. fiction (opp. logos, historic truth) embroidered lies Poikilos
2. of Art, p. humnos a song of changeful strain or full of diverse art, Pi.O.6.87; “poikilon kitharizōn” Id.N.4.14; “dedaidalmenoi pseudesi poikilois muthoi” Id.O.1.29; of style, “lexis poiētikōtera kai p.” Isoc.15.47 (Comp.); “skhēmatismoi” D.H.Is.3.
NEVER TRUST ANYONE WHO WANTS TO IMPROVE ON JESUS CHRIST WHO DIED TO GET TO SPEAK.
Heb. 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened,
and have tasted of the heavenly gift,
and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, [word of Christ john 6:63]
And have tasted the good word of God,
and the powers of the world to come, Heb. 6:5
Heb. 6:6 If they shall fall away,
to renew them again unto repentance;
seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh,
and put him to an open shame.
To recrucify the Son means to "stir up the passion and pride" which Jesus outlawed as forms of singing to "create spiritual anxiety through religious ritual."
Heb. 6:7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it,
and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed,
receiveth blessing from God:
Heb. 6:8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected,
and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
Christ has declared you not competent:
Psa. 19:11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned:
and in keeping of them there is great reward.
Psa. 19:12 Who can understand his errors?
cleanse thou me from secret faults.
Christ has PreJudged what you do by presuming on the grace and Words of God
Psa. 19:13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins;
let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright,
and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Christ has PrePared the meaning of SPEAK (external) and MEDITATE (internal).
Psa. 19:14 Let the words of my mouth,
and the meditation of my heart,
be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD,
my strength, and my redeemeP.S. None of the TRUE Psalms or mizmors available for the non- clergy use instruments.
THE LEADERSHIP: Our desire to be a biblical church is so strong that none of us, including any elder or preacher, would want to remain in the North Boulevard congregation if the North Boulevard church were knowingly and deliberately to abandon its biblical foundations. We believe that
“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Tim. 3:16-17).
THAT MEANS THAT CHRIST CANNOT USE YOU: HE HAS PAID IT ALL, TAUGHT IT ALL.
It's Biblical and Historical view is established by COMMAND and Precedent: Those who IMPOSE something not REQUIRED and which sows discord is THE meaning of HERESY or SECTARIANISM.
That should settle the "styles" which among the mature is to speak or read: the word SPEAK is clearly defined as the opposite of poetry or music. So, it would seem that sowing discord must have another motive.
2 Tim 3: 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Clanging and Tinkling point to more Bacchus or Dionysus
BOASTERS are:
G5366 philarguros fil-ar'-goo-ros From G5384 and G696 ; fond of silver (money), that is, avaricious:--covetous.
G213 alazōn al-ad-zone' From alē (vagrancy); braggart:--boaster.
G214 alalazō al-al-ad'-zo From alalē (a shout, “halloo”); to vociferate, that is, (by implication) to wail; figuratively to clang:--tinkle, wail.
-Psalmos A. twitching or twanging with the fingers, (the Bow: making war.
2. the sound of the cithara or harp, Pi.Fr.125, cf. Phryn.Trag.11; “psalmos d' alalazei” “kumbalon alalazon” 1 Ep.Cor.13.1.
THIS ALALAZEI IS DAVID'S PRAISE SONG MEANING "TO MAKE SELF VILE" TO THREATEN THEN ENEMY WITH SEXUAL VIOLATION.
Aristophanes' Lysistrata:Call upon Bacchus, afire with his Maenades [mad women];
Call upon Zeus in the lightning arrayed;
Call on his queen, ever blessed, adorable;
Call on the holy, infallible Witnesses,
Call them to witness the peace and the harmony,
This which divine Aphrodite has made.Allala! Lalla! Lallala! Lallala!
Whoop for victory, Lallalalae!
Evoi! Evoi! Lallala, Lallala!
Evae! Evae! Lallalalae.The word lelein is fundamentally an onomatopoetic one, meaning, as Thayer's Lexicon puts it, to go 'la-la'. The Greeks shouted 'alala' both in worship and in war, and personified Alala as a deity (Pindar, Fr. 208 [78]; Plutarch 2.3496). It was this same repetitive and meaningless syllabification in pagan prayers which Jesus described: 'for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking' (Matthew 6:7)
-T. Maccius Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, or The Braggart Captain Pl. Mil. 2.1
This city is Ephesus; then, the Captain, my master, who has gone off hence to the Forum, a bragging, impudent, stinking fellow, brimful of lying and lasciviousness, says that all the women are following him of their own accord. Wherever he goes, he is the laughing.stock of all; and so, the Courtesans here--since they make wry mouths at him, you may see the greater part of them with lips all awry Alazon is the name:
Now I will disclose to you both the subject and the name of the play which we are just now about to act, and for the sake of which you are now seated in this mirthful place , "Alazon" is the name (86)
alazôn, "the boaster," he says, was the Greek name of the play.
It is not known who was the Greek author from whom Plautus took this play, which is one of his best.3 in Greek, of this Comedy; the same we call in Latin. "the Braggart" (Gloriosus).
Iamblichus wrote of Sabazianism which was what God abandoned Israel to because of musical idolatry.
We affirm, accordingly, not only that the shoutings and choric songs are sacred to the gods, each and all of them, as being peculiarly their own, but likewise that there is a kindred relationship between them in their proper order . . . and the peculiar usages of Sabazian worship make ready for the Bacchic enthusiasm, the purifying of souls, and deliverances from old incriminations, their respective inspirations are, accordingly, different in every important particular.
Thou seemest to think that those who are enrapt by the Mother of the gods are males, for thou callest them, accordingly, 'Metrizontes' yet that is not true, for the 'Metrizontesae' are chiefly women (op cit., pp. 121-123
Such women must learn that they were purified not through shouting but through the blood of Christ and through the washing of the water of the Word.
2 Tim 3: 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
G786 aspondos as'-pon-dos From G1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of G4689 ; literally without libation (which usually accompanied a treaty), that is, (by implication) truceless:--implacable, truce-breaker.
2 Tim 3: 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
G4273 prodotēs prod-ot'-ace From G4272 (in the sense of giving forward into another’s [the enemy’s] hands); a surrender:--betrayer, traitor.
G5187 tuphoō toof-o'-o From a derivative of G5188 ; to envelop with smoke, that is, (figuratively) to inflate with self conceit:--high-minded, be lifted up with pride, be proud.
2 Tim 3: 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
2 Tim 3: 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses,
and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
G1133 gunaikarion goo-nahee-kar'-ee-on A diminutive from G1135 ; a little (that is, foolish) woman:--silly woman.2 Tim 3: 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
G1939 epithumia ep-ee-thoo-mee'-ah From G1937 ; a longing (especially for what is forbidden):--concupiscence, desire, lust (after).
2 Tim 3: 8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses,
so do these also resist the truth:
men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
You cannot appease the masses of the world: Many are called but FEW are chosen.THE LEADERSHIP: When we approach the message of the Bible, we want to accept it “not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe” (1 Thess. 2:13).
THOSE LIABLE TO BE DISLOYAL HAVE NO BIBLICAL ROLE OR BIBLICAL FUNDING.1 Thes 2:5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
You remember that Jesus "cast out" the musical minstrels "like dung" and consigned the pipers, singers and dancers to the Agora or marketplace.Kolakeia (g2850) kol-ak-i'-ah; from a der. of kolac , (a fawner); flattery: - *flattering
Chysostom Letter to Theodore After His FallWhere are they now who used to strut through the market place with much pomp, and a crowd of attendants? who were clothed in silk and redolent with perfumes, and kept a table for their parasites, and were in constant attendance at the theatre?
What has now become of all that parade of theirs? It is all gone;-the costly splendour of their banquets, the throng of musicians, the attentions of flatterers, the loud laughter, the relaxation of spirit, the enervation of mind, the voluptuous, abandoned, extravagant manner of life-it has all come to an end.
Outlawed as SELF-pleasure in the ekklesia.
-Areskos A. pleasing, mostly in bad sense, obsequious, cringing, Arist.EN1108a28, 1126b12, Thphr.Char.5.1. II. areskos, ho, the staff borne pornobosko [brothel keeper] on the stage, Poll.4.120.
1 Thes 2:6 Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others,
when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
1 Thes 2:7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
1 Thes 2:8 So being affectionately desirous of you,
we were willing to have imparted unto you,
not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
1 Thes 2:9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day,
because we would not be chargeable unto any of you,
we preached unto you the gospel of God.
1 Thes 2:10 Ye are witnesses, and God also,
how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
1 Thes 2:11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you,
as a father doth his children,
1 Thes 2:12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
1 Thes 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing,
because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us,
ye received it not as the word of men,
but as it is in truth, the word of God,
which effectually worketh also in you that believe.Christ has Prempted:
We Acknowledge
THE LEADERSHIP: We acknowledge that because of our sinfulness and imperfect human judgment,
there are areas where we have not fully obeyed Scriptures
or have not fully understood their implications.
This will always be the case since we remain weak and our world constantly changes. As James reminds us, “We all stumble in many ways” (James 3:2). To say that we are a New Testament or Bible based church is not to claim perfection. It is to describe our commitment to take the Scriptures seriously and to submit to them as the Word of God as fully as we know how.
JAMES HAD A SOLUTION:
James 3:1 MY brethren, be not many masters,From the Church of Christ in the Wilderness and still the pattern affirmed by the Apostles:
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time
hath in every city them that preach him,
being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.Is. 22:22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder;
so he shall open, and none shall shut;
and he shall shut, and none shall open.
Luke 11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers!
for ye have taken away the key of knowledge:
ye entered not in yourselves,
and them that were entering in ye hindered.That's why Christ ordained that you PREACH the Word of Christ as it is written by READING it on the REST day. Even the Lord's Supper is a teaching activity. That wholly defines THE meaning of ekklesia or synagogue of Christ. Why? Why because "we all stumble" and the imagination of man is only evil continually: no one is called upon to PUMP POWER into the Gospel / Doctrine of Christ.
PAUL AND OTHERS LEFT US A "MEMORY" SO THAT WE COULD MARK THOSE WHO NEED TO CHANGE OR FURTHER EXPOUND.
2 Pet 1:13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
2Pet. 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises:
that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature,
having escaped the corruption [connects to musical sounds] that is in the world through lust.
2 Pet 1:15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease
to have these things alway in remembrance.
2Pet. 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly [sophizo] devised fables,
Fables are myths from MUO [to shut the mouth: music forces the lambs to be silent before the slaughter]-Muthos 2. fiction (opp. logos, historic truth)
Pind. 0. 1 From there glorious song enfolds the wisdom of poets, so that they loudly sing [10] the son of Cronus, when they arrive at the rich and blessed hearth of Hieron, who wields the scepter of law in Sicily of many flocks, reaping every excellence at its peak, and is glorified [15] by the choicest music, which we men often play around his hospitable table. Come, take the Dorian lyre down from its peg, if the splendor of Pisa and of Pherenicus placed your mind under the influence of sweetest thoughts,Christ has Prempted self-composed songs and sermons (the Scribes and Pharisees)
Yes, there are many marvels, and yet I suppose
the speech of mortals beyond the true account can be deceptive,
stories adorned with embroidered lies;
[30] and Grace, who fashions all gentle things for men,
confers esteem and often
contrives to make believable the unbelievable.
But the days to come are the wisest witnesses.
Embroidered lies -Poikilos-Sophis-tês ,A. master of one's craft, adept, expert, of diviners, Hdt.2.49; of poets, “meletan sophistais prosbalon” Pi.I.5(4).28, cf. Cratin.2; of musicians, “sophistēs . . parapaiōn khelun” A.Fr.314, cf. Eup.447, Pl.Com. 140; sophistē Thrēki (sc. Thamyris) E.Rh.924, cf. Ath.14.632c: with modal words added, “hoi s. tōn hierōn melōn” (religious melody)
2. of Art, p. humnos a song of changeful strain or full of diverse art, Pi.O.6.87; “poikilon kitharizōn” Id.N.4.14; “dedaidalmenoi pseudesi poikilois muthoi” Id.O.1.29; of style, “lexis poiētikōtera kai p.” Isoc.15.47 (Comp.); “skhēmatismoi” D.H.Is.3.
Fables are myths from MUO [to shut the mouth: music forces the lambs to be silent before the slaughter]
Sophists, Liars, hone up the MELODY in the HOLY PLACES which would get a Levite executed.II. from late v B.C., a Sophist, i.e. one who gave lessons in grammar, rhetoric, politics, mathematics, for money,
-Goēs A. sorcerer, wizard, Phoronis 2, Hdt.2.33,4.105, Pl.R. 380d, Phld.Ir.p.29 W.; “g. epōdos Ludias apo khthonos” E.Ba.234, cf. Hipp.1038; prob. f.l. for boēsi Hdt.7.191.
2. juggler, cheat, “deinos g. kai pharmakeus kai sophistēs” Pl.Smp.203d; “magos kai g.” Aeschin.3.137:
John called the speakers, singers and instrument players sorcerers [pharmakeia] who HAD deceived the whole world. When you see them in the "holy places" it is proof that Christ has been there and gone with His Lamps (Rev 18). The Merchants will just howl that someone has stolen their image of civic pride.
-Plat. Sym. 203d Now, as the son of Resource and Poverty, Love is in a peculiar case. First, he is ever poor, and far from tender or beautiful as most suppose him: rather is he hard and parched, shoeless and homeless; on the bare ground always he lies with no bedding, and takes his rest on doorsteps and waysides in the open air; true to his mother's nature, he ever dwells with want. But he takes after his father in scheming for all that is beautiful and good; for he is brave, strenuous and high-strung, a famous hunter, always weaving some stratagem; desirous and competent of wisdom, throughout life ensuing the truth; a master of jugglery, witchcraftChrist has Spoken to those OF TRUTH and OF FAITH:
James 3:13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you?It seems that James has LOCKED your preferences for old pagan traditionalism out: who would even suggest musical styles when Christ comes to speak when the elders teach that which has been taught.
let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
James 3:14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts,
glory not, and lie not against the truth.
James 3:15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
-Sophia A. cleverness or skill in handicraft and art, Hephaestus and Athena, Pl.Prt.32 in music and singing, tekhnē kai s. h.Merc.483, cf. 511; in poetry, Sol.13.52, Pi.O.1.117,
The Wise Sophos A. skilled in any handicraft or art, clever, mostly of poets and musicians, Pi.O.1.9, P.1.42, 3.113; en kithara s. E.IT1238
Aristotle: Melody Deceives: "Poets also make use of this in inventing words, as a melody "without strings" or "without the lyre"; for they employ epithets from negations, a course which is approved in proportional metaphors..The form of diction should be neither metrical nor without rhythm.
If it is metrical, it lacks persuasiveness, for it appears artificial, and at the same time it distracts the hearer's attention, since it sets him on the watch for the recurrence of such and such a cadence..According to Philo, the gods of the pagans exploit this weakness of men. For the sake of a better effect, and with the intention of more easily cheating their devotes, that they have set their lies to melodies, rhythms and meters.." Click for more.
Christ has Prempted
James 3:16 For where envying and strife is,THIS PAPER PLANS TO SOW DISCORD UNDER THE PLOY OF UNITY.
there is confusion and every evil work.
James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle,
and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits,
without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
[Hypocrisy: dramatic rhetoric, acting, poetry, interpretery]
[Epos song accompanied by music ]
James 3:18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
We Commit
THE LEADERSHIP: As leaders at North Boulevard, we commit to the ongoing process of studying the Scriptures, seeking to submit to them, and measuring what we do as a congregation by the teachings of the Bible. We want to be like the people of the ancient city of Berea, who possessed noble character because “they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day” (Acts 17:11).
Acts 17:23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
-[1.1.4] The Athenians have also another harbor, at Munychia, with a temple of Artemis of Munychia, and yet another at Phalerum, as I have already stated, and near it is a sanctuary of Demeter. Here there is also a temple of Athena Sciras, and one of Zeus some distance away, and altars of the gods named Unknown
-[1.2.5] One of the porticoes contains shrines of gods, and a gymnasium called that of Hermes.
This fits the Abomination of Desolation which forced moral Jews to flee Jerusalem to be replaced by Kenites or Cainites.In it is the house of Pulytion, at which it is said that a mystic rite was performed by the most notable Athenians, parodying the Eleusinian mysteries.
But in my time it was devoted to the worship of Dionysus. This Dionysus they call Melpomenus (Minstrel), on the same principle as they call Apollo Musegetes (Leader of the Muses).
Here there are images of Athena Paeonia (Healer), of Zeus, of Mnemosyne (Memory) and of the Muses, an Apollo, the votive offering and work of Eubulides, and Acratus, a daemon attendant upon Apollo; it is only a face of him worked into the wall.After the precinct of Apollo is a building that contains earthen ware images, Amphictyon, king of Athens, feasting Dionysus and other gods.
Strabo wrote: 10.3.18] Just as in all other respects the Athenians continue to be hospitable to things foreign,
- so also in their worship of the gods;
- for they welcomed so many of the foreign rites
- that they were ridiculed therefore by comic writers;
- and among these were the Thracian and Phrygian rites.
For instance, the Bendideian rites are mentioned by Plato, and the Phrygian by Demosthenes,
[10.3.15] They invented names appropriate to the flute, and to the noises made by castanets, cymbals, and drums, and to their acclamations and shouts of "ev-ah," and stampings of the feet;1 and they also invented some of the names by which to designate the ministers, choral dancers, and attendants upon the sacred rites, I mean "Cabeiri" and "Corybantes" and "Pans" and "Satyri" and "Tityri," and they called the god "Bacchus," and Rhea [ZOE] "Cybele" or "Cybebe" or "Dindymene" according to the places where she was worshipped. Sabazius also belongs to the Phrygian group and in a way is the child of the Mother, since he too transmitted the rites of Dionysus (This is the ancient Babylonian Triad worship)when he casts the reproach upon Aeschines' mother and Aeschines himself
. that he was with her when she conducted initiations,
. that he joined her in leading the Dionysiac march,
. and that many a time he cried out "evoe saboe," and "hyes attes, attes hyes";
. for these words are in the ritual of Sabazius and the Mother.
. This is the Sabazianism to which God abandoned Israel at Mount Sinai.
Acts 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein,
seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth,
dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
Acts 17:25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands,
as though he needed any thing,
seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
Acts 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men
for to dwell on all the face of the earth,
and hath determined the times before appointed,
and the bounds of their habitation;
Where ever they are on the face of the earth, you don't need someone to lead you into His presence.
Acts 17:27 That they should seek the Lord,
if haply they might feel after him, and find him,
though he be not far from every one of us:THE LEADERSHIP: The New Testament teaches us to test ourselves: “Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you—unless, of course, you fail the test?” (2 Cor. 13:5).
We pledge to the church that we will continually test ourselves using the truth of 3 Scripture. We also pledge that we will not deliberately lead the church away from the Word of God.
2Cor. 13:7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil;
not that we should appear approved,
but that ye should do that which is honest,
though we be as reprobates.
2Cor. 13:8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
2Cor. 13:9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong:
and this also we wish, even your perfection.
2Cor. 13:10 Therefore I write these things being absent,
lest being present I should use sharpness,
according to the power which the Lord hath given me
to edification, and not to destruction.
-Aristot. Nic. Eth. 1094a [2] （It is true that a certain variety is to be observed among the ends at which the arts and sciences aim:
in some cases the activity of practising the art is itself the end,
That's why all of the arts in religion are called hypocrites and parasites.
whereas in others the end is some product over and above the mere exercise of the art; and in the arts whose ends are certain things beside the practice of the arts themselves, these products are essentially superior in value to the activities.）2Cor. 13:11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort,Note: Aristotle gives flute-playing as an instance of an art the practice of which is an end in itself, in contrast with the art of building, the end of which is the house built Aristot. Gtr. Mor. 1211b 27 ff.
be of one mind, live in peace;
and the God of love and peace shall be with you.We ask
THE LEADERSHIP: the congregation to make this same commitment to follow the Scriptures in life and in doctrine. We ask the congregation to study the Word of God, to integrate it into your hearts and minds, and to walk daily by its precepts. “Blessed are they who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart” (Psalm 119:2).
We also ask the congregation to work lovingly and gently with the leadership as together we continue to seek to become everything the Scriptures teach us to be. We want the entire congregation to practice Paul’s admonition: “Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers” (1 Timothy 4:16).
PROPHECY OF THE PRESENT SOWERS OF DISCORD: TEACHING THE DOCTRINES OF DEVIL.
Jesus defined the Scribes and Pharisees and hypocrites by naming false preachers, singers and instrument players. He called them SONS of the Devil because they SPEAK on their own.
The Whole Truth of 1 Timothy 4 which defines doctrines of devils
Christ has Prempted
1Tim. 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly,
that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith,
giving heed to seducing spirits,
and doctrines of devils;
SEDUCING SPIRITS: [added]
G4107 -planos plan-ay'-tace From G4108 ; a rover ("planet"), that is, (figuratively) an erratic teacher:wandering
1. Act., leading astray, deceiving, bait, a shake down. Drive headlong Maniodes, madness Eros
-Eur. Ba. 298 But this god is a prophet—for Bacchic revelry and madness have in them much prophetic skill. [300] For whenever the god enters a body in full force, he makes the frantic to foretell the future. He also possesses a share of Ares' nature. For terror sometimes flutters an army under arms and in its ranks before it even touches a spear; [305] and this too is a frenzy from Dionysus.
Dionysus is the Old Wineskin God where charismatic ecstasy was a real or virtual gender variant encounter with the "god."
2. Pass., wandering, roaming, fickle, “poikilon pragm' esti kai planon
Seducing Spirits produce: Poikilos
2. of Art, p. -humnos a song of changeful strain or full of diverse art, Pi.O.6.87; “poikilon kitharizōn” Id.N.4.14; “dedaidalmenoi pseudesi poikilois muthoi” Id.O.1.29; of style, “lexis poiētikōtera kai p.” Isoc.15.47 (Comp.); “skhēmatismoi” D.H.Is.3.Pind. O. 6 I think I have on my tongue a shrill whetstone, which steals over me (and I am willing) with fair-flowing breaths. My mother's mother was the nymph of Stymphalus, blossoming Metopa, [85] who bore horse-driving Thebe, whose delicious water I drink,
while I weave my embroidered song for heroic spearmen.
Now rouse your companions, Aeneas,
first to shout the praises of Hera Parthenia,
and then to know whether we have truly escaped the ancient reproach
[the old traditionalism: our outdated heritage]
[90] of men's speech, “Boeotian pig.” For you are a faithful herald,
a message-stick of the lovely-haired Muses,
a sweet mixing-bowl of loud-sounding songs.
Tell them to remember Syracuse and Ortygia, which Hieron rules with his pure scepter and with good counsels, [95] while he attends on the worship of Demeter of the red feet, and on the festival of her daughter with her white horses, and on the might of Aetnaean Zeus. The sweet-voiced lyres and music are familiar with Hieron.THE BRIDES AND BRIDEGROOMS LUMPED WITH THE MUSICIANS
Numphē : nymph, goddess of secondary rank, as the Naiads, mountain nymphs, etc., Il. 6.420, Od. 6.123; offerings were made to them, Od. 17.211, Od. 12.318; Calypso and Circe are termed nymphs, Od. 5.153, Od. 10.543.
Numphē , voc. numpha (cf. nubo): bride, lady; after as well as at the time of marriage, Il. 9.560, Od. 11.447, Il. 3.130, Od. 4.743.
Mixing bowl Krater 2. metaph., k. aoidan, of the messenger who bears an ode, Pi.O.6.91; k. kakōn, of a sycophant, Ar.Ach.937 (lyr.); “tosonde kratēr' en domois kakōn plēsas . . ekpinei” A.Ag.1397; haimatos kratēra politikou stēsai, of civil war,
-Mousa A. “Olumpiades M., Dios aigiokhoio thugateres” Il.2.491, cf. Hes.Th.25, etc.; nine in number, first in Od.24.60; named in Hes.Th.75 sqq. II. mousa, as Appellat., music, song,
-Hor. Carm. 1.1
Fail not the flute, nor Polyhymnia fly
To me the artist's meed, the ivy wreath
Is very heaven: me the sweet cool of woods,
Where Satyrs frolic with the Nymphs, secludes
From rabble rout, so but Euterpe's breath
Averse from stringing new the Lesbian lyre.
O, write my name among that minstrel choir,
And my proud head shall strike upon the sky!-Horace Odes 2. Venus is Zoe or Lucifer
Ay, Venus smiles; the pure nymphs smile,
And Cupid, tyrant-lord of hearts,
Sharpening on bloody stone the while
Hifiery darts.
New captives fill the nets you weave;
New slaves are bred; and those before,
Though oft they threaten, never leave
Your godless door.2. We want to extend freedom in matters of opinion.
Christ has Prempted you: any changes will promise liberty but add more burdens (songs)
We Believe
THE LEADERSHIP: North Boulevard has a heritage of granting freedom
in matters of opinions, styles, and methods.
We believe that North Boulevard
should continue to practice the freedom of Christ
where no clear teaching of the New Testament is involved,
so long as that freedom is guided by appropriate principles of love for others,
godly wisdom, justice, and mercy.The Word of God is very vocal from the singing and harp playing prostitute in the garden of Eden to the Babylon mother of harlots (Rev 17) who uses lusted after FRUITS as preachers, singers and instrument players. The Word of God is flooded with associating musical instruments with Satan as the SOURCE, to people like Jubal who handled instruments "without authority," to warriors threatening the enemy, to sacrificial exorcists (NOT commanded by Christ), to prostitutes and sodomites plaguing all religious institutions.
It is a fact that Christ sends STRONG DELUSIONS so that people corrupting the Word (selling learning at retail) will believe their own lied and be damned. The MARK is the introduction of Lying Wonders which would be any of the theatrical or musical spectacles CLAIMING that a spirit told them to do it. That is demonic.
There is no reason that men trained as "doctors of the Law" whom Jesus said "take away the key to knowledge" should know that some things--all forms of music in the school of the Bible--are radically condemned, outlawed and LEFT as a mark of false teachers.
Freedom is a central theme in the New Covenant of Christ: “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom” (2 Cor. 3:17).
The direct command practiced from the wilderness to the time of Christ and endorsed by the Apostles and practiced for centuries was. AGAIN:Acts 15:21 For Moses
of old time hath
in every city them
that preach him,
being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.The synagogue was ordained by Christ after Israel refused to hear the voice of God and fell into musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. God blinded the Jews and they would not be able to read BLACK text on BROWN paper until they converted to Christ in baptism.
2Cor. 3:13 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face,So it looks like liberty is liberty to read and discuss the Word of God without a priestly mediator in song or sermon:
that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
2Cor. 3:14 But their minds were blinded:
for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away
in the reading of the old testament;
which vail is done away in Christ.
2Cor. 3:15 But even unto this day,After conversion or baptism we receive A holy spirit so we can read the text without needing to improve on God's Work. The enabling spirit (our's) is to let us read the Word as it has been taught.
when Moses is read,
the vail is upon their heart.
2Cor. 3:16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
The Spirit is the Mind of Christ and is named Jesus Christ the Righteous:
2Cor. 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit:The clergy's liberty to BIND things on their enablers is the liberty to LEGISLATE: nothing is more legalistic than music always used to force-feed the laws of Apollo (Abaddon, Apollyon) with the Muses who were dirty adulteresses: John called them SORCERERS.
and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
-Eleutheria Freedom FROM a thing. Free from the rule of ONE. Freedom from the many.
2Cor. 3:18 But 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.
Peter dared anyone to private interpret or further expound the prophecies by Christ and prophecies made perfect by Jesus Christ.
2Pet. 1:18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard,
when we were with him in the holy mount.
2Pet. 1:19 WE have also a more sure word of prophecy;
whereunto YE do well that ye take heed, [the only worship word]
as unto a light that shineth in a dark place,
until the day dawn,
and the day star arise in your hearts:
WE have liberty from YOU because Christ gave us the ONLY RESOURCE for the School of the Word.
2Pet. 1:20 Knowing this first,
that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
2Pet. 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man:
but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
You cannot even "speak your own words" on the REST Day when Jesus Christ comes to be out only teacher when the elders teach that which has been taught.THE LEADERSHIP: “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.
Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves
be burdened again by a yoke of slavery” (Gal. 5:1). “The primary burden Jesus died to remove is defined as SONGS calculated to create spiritual anxiety to put you under the control of the singer John and everyone called sorcerers.
-Epōd-os（epadō） A. singing to or over, using songs or charms to heal wounds, “epōdoi muthoi” Pl.Lg.903b.
b. Subst., enchanter, “e. kai goēs” E.Hipp. 1038 (but “goēs e.” Ba.234): c. gen., a charm for or against, “ethusen hautou paida epōdon Thrēkiōn aēmatōn” A.Ag.1418 ; e. tōn toioutōn one to charm away such fears, Pl.Phd.78a.
2. epōdos, ho, verse or passage returning at intervals, in Alcaics and Sapphics, D.H.Comp.19 ; chorus, burden, refrain, Ph. 1.312 : metaph., ho koinos hapasēs adoleskhias e. the 'old story',
Matt. 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now
the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force
The Greek word in question here is biastai (the plural form of biastes), which a good many versions translate: "violent men." This is the word that appears in Matt. 11:12 -- "violent men take it by force." The verb form of this word, which appears in both Matt. 11:12 and Luke 16:16, is biazo. "The kingdom of heaven suffers violence" [Matt. 11:12]. "Every man entereth violently into it" [Luke 16:16, ASV].-Rapio To carry off by force; to seize, rob, ravish; to plunder, ravage, lay waste, take by assault, carry by force, Ravish or rape, to live by robbery, 1. To carry along or away with passion, to transport, ravish, captivate; and with a designation of the limit, to carry or hurry away, to attract strongly to any thing (usually in a bad sense): Poet.: “Nasonis carmina rapti,”Rapta the ravished one, the seducedOvid, Arts of Love 1.158
You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love” (Gal. 5:13).
THIS IS RAW IMPLIED LIES AND FAIRY TALES
THE LEADERSHIP: For this reason we believe that God wantsus to extend freedom Freedom is NOT yours to extend. Jesus died to get that right!
in areas of opinion The 2,000 years opposition to instruments is NOTopinion.
and that God is dishonored God is not dishonered when we SPEAK His words where Speak is the opposite of music.
when we create a legalistic NOT using music and musicians is NOT legalistic. An instrument is a machine for doing hard work.
or judgmental environment Judgment IMPOSES someting on others: Who IMPOSES?
or an environment
dominated by human traditions This is the usual big fat lie
or frequent controversy. No one since the year 373 created controversy by singing (only)
I BELIEVE THIS IS WELL BEYOND REDEMPTION:
THESE ARE ALL RACA WORDS USED AGAINST GODLY PEOPLE WHO
HAVE THE WORD ON THEIR SIDE.
This always means that those who will not BEGIN using legalistic machines to help worship God when they have NEVER used machines in the School of Christ, are LEGALISTIC for refusing to let people infiltrate instruments into their congregation.
Machiavelli says that if a prince (or princess) wants to infiltrate and capture YOUR propetry he can do it by prayer or force. But, he says "prayer rarely works." ALL of these are words of psychological violence making you too frightened to appear to be a LEGALIST. But, these all enfold lies.
This always means that those who will not BEGIN using legalistic machines to help worship God when they have NEVER used machines in the School of Christ, are LEGALISTIC for refusing to let people infiltrate instruments into their congregation.
Machiavelli says that if a prince (or princess) wants to infiltrate and capture YOUR propetry he can do it by prayer or force. But, he says "prayer rarely works." ALL of these are words of psychological violence making you too frightened to appear to be a LEGALIST. But, these all enfold lies.
The Word of God condemns religious musicians from the "serpent" in the Garden of Eden whom Christ in the prophets calls the 'singing and harp-playing prostitute' to the Babylon mother of harlots (Rev 17) who uses lusted after "fruits" (same as in Amos meaning catamites) as preachers, singers and instrument players. John calls them sorcerers who HAD deceived the whole world.
LEGALISTIC: A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT IS A MACHINE FOR DOING HARD WORK IN MAKING WAR OF PAGAN RELIGIONISM:
-Organon , to/, (ergon, erdō) A. [select] instrument, implement, tool, for making or doing a thing. “polemika, making war. 3. musical instrument, ; organa khronōn or khronou, of the stars, Id.Ti.41e,42d
II. concrete, work or product, ergon , 1. in Il. mostly of works or deeds of war, “polemēia e.” Il.2.338, al., Od.12.116 a. c. gen. pers., it is his business, his proper work
-Organ-ikos ,A. serving as organs or instruments, instrumental,
of war-engines, “hē o. bia” D.S.17.43 ; “o. kataskeuai” eis plēthē logos speech which is brought to bear on the mob, Plu.Cat.Mi.4 ; of musicians, practical, opp. logikoi (theoretical) making more use of instruments, tekhnē craftsmen lumped with deceptive preachers, singerrs and instruments are called sorcerers by John.
-Orgănum , i, n., = organon, I. an implement, instrument, engine of any kind.
Of musical instruments, a pipe, Quint. 11, 3, 20; 9, 4, 10; Juv. 6, 3, 80; Vulg. Gen. 4, 21; id. 2 Par. 34, 12
When Jublal HANDLED musical instruments:
H8610 tâphaś taw-fas' A primitive root; to manipulate, that is, seize; chiefly to capture, wield; specifically to overlay; figuratively to use unwarrantably:—catch, handle, (lay, take) hold (on, over), stop, X surely, surprise, take.
Has the same meaning as Topheth: Hell-Quint. Inst. 11 3.20 praeterea ut sint fauces integrae, id est molles ac leves, quarum vitio et frangitur et obscuratur et exasperatur et scinditur vox. nam ut tibiae eodem spiritu accepto alium clausis, alium apertis foraminibus, alium non satis purgatae, alium quassae sonum reddunt, ita fauces tumentes strangulant [254] vocem, obtusae obscurant, rasae exasperant, convulsae fractis sunt organis similes.-Organon , to/, (ergon=hard work, erdō)
A. instrument, implement, tool, for making or doing. for making war
3. musical instrument, Simon.31, f.l. in A.Fr.57.1 ; ho men di' organōn ekēlei anthrōpous, of Marsyas, Pl.Smp.215c ; aneu organōn psilois logois ibid., cf. Plt.268b ; “o. polukhorda” Id.R.399c, al.; “met' ōdēs kai tinōn organōn” Phld.Mus.p.98K.; of the pipe, Melanipp.2, Telest.1.2.
THE LEADERSHIP: “The entire law is summed up in a single command: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other” (Gal. 5:14-15). “
The Law of Moses was imposed because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. Christ ordained the Qahal, synagogue or Church of Christ in the wilderness. This quarantine the godly people from the sacrificial system which used instruments as part of the worship of the starry hosts. The Synagogue or church continued to EXCLUDED both preaching and music because it was a SCHOOL OF THE WORD.
THE ONLY USE OF "LEGALISTS" SPEAKS OF SINGING THE LAWS OF APOLLYON
A musical instrument is "a machine for doing hard work, mostly in making war or creating the shock and awe of religious ceremonialism. Jesus FIRED them. No one was ever so dumb that they did not know that music appealed as Albert Barnes said to the LUST OF EAR and the LUST of the Eye. Music has no abiding value and prostitutes itself to stroking all of the pleasure center nerve endings.
Gal. 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Gal. 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.The woman at the well understood Jesus to say that we worship in the PLACE of the human spirit devoted to THE TRUTH. This was opposite to the places of temples.
Paul commanded us to worship IN THE SPIRIT because the DOGS or catamite praise singerr were howling to get inside to the lambs
LEGALISM: -Nomos: that which is in habitual practice.
IT IS THIS? but also “ho n. tou Khristou” Ep.Gal.6.2; ho n. tou Pneumatos tēs zōēs, opp. ho n. tēs hamartias kai tou thanatou, Ep.Rom.8.2; “n. teleios ho tēs eleutherias” Ep.Jac.1.25.
OR IT IS THIS! II. melody, strain, “oida d' ornikhōn nomōs pantōn” Alcm.67; “n. hippios” Pi.O. 1.101; “Apollōn hageito pantoiōn n.” Id.N.5.25; “n. polemikoi” Th.5.69; “epēlalaxan Arai ton oxun n.” A.Th.952 (lyr.); “krektoi n.” S.Fr. 463, cf. AP9.584: metaph., “tous Haidou n.” S.Fr.861.
2. esp. a type of early melody created by Terpander for the lyre as an accompaniment to Epic texts, “n. orthios” Hdt.1.24; “n. Boiōtios” S.Fr.966; “n. kitharōdikoi” Ar.Ra.1282, cf. Pl.Lg.700d, Arist.Po.1447b26, Pr.918b13, etc.; also for the flute, “n. aulōdikos” Plu.2.1132d; without sung text, n. aulētikos ib.1133d, cf. 138b, Poll.4.79; later, composition including both words and melody, e.g. Tim.Pers.
Plato Gorgias -[483b] for
whom it is better to be dead than alive, as it is for
anybody who, when wronged or insulted, is unable to protect himself or
anyone else for whom he cares. But I suppose the makers of
the laws are
the weaker sort of men, and the more numerous.
So it is with a view to themselves and their own interest
that they make their laws and distribute their praises and censures
So it is with a view to themselves and their own interest
that they make their laws and distribute their praises and censures
-[483c] and
to terrorize the stronger sort of folk who are
able
to get an advantage, and to prevent them from getting one over
them,
they
tell them, that such aggrandizement is foul and unjust,
and
that wrongdoing is just this endeavor to get
the advantage of one's
neighbors:
for I
expect they are well content to see themselves on an equality,
when they are so inferior.
So this is why
by convention it is
termed unjust and foul to aim
at an advantage over the majority,
-[483d] and
why they call it wrongdoing: but nature, in my
opinion,
herself proclaims the fact that it is right for the better to have advantage of the worse, and the abler of the feebler.
It is obvious in many cases that this is so, not only in the animal world, but in the states and races, collectively, of men-
-that right has been decided to consist in the sway and advantage of the stronger over the weaker.
For by what manner of right did Xerxes
-Plato Gorgias [483e] march against Greece, or his father against Scythia? Or take the countless other cases of the sort that one might mention. Why, surely these men follow nature--the nature of right--in acting thus; yes, on my soul, and follow the law of nature--though not that, I dare say, which is made by us;
we mold the best and strongest amongst us,
taking them from their infancy like young lions,
and utterly enthral them by our spells
herself proclaims the fact that it is right for the better to have advantage of the worse, and the abler of the feebler.
It is obvious in many cases that this is so, not only in the animal world, but in the states and races, collectively, of men-
-that right has been decided to consist in the sway and advantage of the stronger over the weaker.
For by what manner of right did Xerxes
-Plato Gorgias [483e] march against Greece, or his father against Scythia? Or take the countless other cases of the sort that one might mention. Why, surely these men follow nature--the nature of right--in acting thus; yes, on my soul, and follow the law of nature--though not that, I dare say, which is made by us;
we mold the best and strongest amongst us,
taking them from their infancy like young lions,
and utterly enthral them by our spells
Callicles boldly applies the word nomos, which so far has been used in the sense of man-made law or convention, in its widest sense of “general rule” or “principle.
-Nomos by custom, conventionally, OPPOSED to inspired. By the law of force.
II. a musical mode or strain, Aesch., Plat., etc.; nomoi kitharōdikoi Ar.2. a song sung in honour of some god, Hdt.; nomoi polemikoi war- tunes, Thuc.
THE TRUTH ABOUT GALATIANS 5 AND THE MASSIVE SOWERS OF DISCORD
There is no Bible or recorded history which does not connect musical "worship" to a giant outburst of effeminate or perverted worship. All pagan religious singers and musicians were castrated (ACappella) ministers of Cybele or other Babylon Mother of Harlots. In Revelation 18 John calls them "lusted after fruits" (same as in Amos) and they performed as preachers, singers in instrument players. John called them SORCERERS who had deceived the whole world.
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I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none
otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. Gal. 5:11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased. Gal. 5:12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you. Gal 5:12 As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves! Gregory Nazianzen
Here
is what an agitator does to RECRUCIFY Christ who SILENCED the
passion and pride:
Anastatoo
(g387)
an-as-tat-o'-o; from a der. of 450 (in the sense of removal); prop.
to drive out of home, i.e.
(by impl.) to disturb
(lit. or fig.): - trouble, turn upside down, make
an uproar,
to stir up, excite, unsettle
to excite tumults and seditions in the state to
upset,
unsettle, minds by disseminating religious error
NOTICE THAT THE MARK OF THE RECRUCIFYING PARTY IS: -Psallô I. In gen., to play upon a stringed instrument; esp., to play upon the cithara, to sing to the cithara: psallere saltare elegantius, Horace Odes 4:13.7. Jucundus, Voluptuosus-Against Catiline [23] In these bands are all the gamblers, all the adulterers, all the unclean and shameless citizens. These boys, so witty and delicate,
THEY
ALL LIE ABOUT EVERY BIBLICAL OR HISTORICAL EVIDENCE BECAUSE THEY ARE
LIARS. HERE
IS THE PRACTICE AND THE PEOPLE DEFINED AS AGITATORS:
Remembering that ACappella is a steal word from "a cappella." This was in the style of the pope's castrated "musical worship team" where instruments were never permitted.
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ALL AUTHORITY FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS DERIVE FROM THE LAW OF THE CURSED MONARCHY
Gal. 5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Gal. 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these;
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Gal. 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Gal. 5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before,
as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
ALL OF THE MUSES WERE FILTHY ADULTERESSES OR PERVERTED OR THEY WOULD NOT PERFORM
-Pind. O. 9
[5] But now, from the bow of the Muses who, shooting from afar, send a shower of such arrows of song as these on Zeus of the red lightning-bolt and on the sacred height of Elis, which once the Lydian hero Pelops [10] won as the very fine dowry of Hippodameia.
[11] And shoot a winged sweet arrow to Pytho; for your words will not fall to the ground, short of the mark, when you trill the lyre in honor of the wrestling of the man from renowned Opus.
[25] the Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis: "Shepherds of the wilderness, wretched things of shame, mere bellies, we know how to speak many false things as though they were true; but we know, when we will, to utter true things."
WHO IS THE GODDESS THE RELIGIOUS MUSES WORSHIP?
-[20] So said the ready-voiced daughters of great Zeus, and they plucked and gave [30] me a rod, a shoot of sturdy laurel, a marvellous thing,
and breathed into me a divine voice to celebrate things that shall be
and things that were aforetime;
and they bade me sing of the race of the blessed gods that are eternally,
but ever to sing of themselves both first and last.
THE
LEADERSHIP: See
to it that no one takes
you captive through
hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human
tradition and
the basic
principles of this world rather than on Christ” (Col.
2:8).
SOME TRUTH TO MARK VAIN SPEAKERS USING VAIN PHILOSOPHY AND HUMAN TRADITIONS.
Those needing to UPSET COMFORT ZONES intend to SOW MASSIVE DISCORD: that's their job.
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For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for
them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; Col. 2:2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; Col. 2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in THE FAITH as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Col. 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil [lie] you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
The leaders in Ephesians 4 (no preachers named) are specificially to PUT OUT those tricksters using sophistry: THE WORLD POINTS TO THE MUSICAL WORSHIP OF ALL PAGANS. John
17:9
I pray
for THEM: I pray
not for the world, John 17:10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. John
17:11
And now I
am no more in the world, but
these are in the world, and I come to thee. John
17:12
While I
was with them in the world, John
17:13
And now
COME I TO THEE; John
17:14
I have
given them John
17:15
I pray
not that thou shouldest John 17:16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. John
17:17
SANCTIFY them seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. 1Cor. 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. 1Cor. 3:20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. -Sophia A. cleverness or skill in handicraft and art, Hephaestus and Athena, Pl.Prt.32 in music and singing, tekhnē kai s. h.Merc.483, cf. 511; in poetry, Sol.13.52, Pi.O.1.117, -HH 4 483 And they say that from the utterance of Zeus you have learned both the honors due to the gods, O Far-worker, and oracles from Zeus, even all his ordinances. Of all these I myself have already learned that you have great wealth. Now, you are free to learn whatever you please; Craftiness Panourgia: in Ephesians 4 the chuch leaders are to STOP these musical invaders. See Ephesians four and the lie about unity in diversity. 2Cor. 4:1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; 2Cor. 4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. 2Cor. 4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: |
THE LEADERSHIP THREAT: “But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless. Warn a divisive person once, and then warn him a second time. After that, have nothing to do with him” (Titus 3:8-10).
Titus 3:8 This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly,
that they which have believed in God
might be careful to maintain good works.
These things are good and profitable unto men.
Replacing the resource of The Word of Christ or That Which is Written
with effenimate praise songs is NOT a good work: it is Anti-Christian.
Using musical STYLES to enhance the false words is called
SORCERY: God prepared hell for sorcerers.
Titus 3:9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.Since the ONLY worship concept mentioned by Jesus, Peter and Paul is to give heed to the Words of Christ, then singy-clappy songs always gender-confused is NOT profitable and is worse than vain.
-Mataios vain, empty, idle
Vain Words are Epos or human hymns generally, that which is uttered in words, speech, tale ((sermon) myths
1. song or lay accompanied by music, 8.91,17.519.
IV. in pl., epic poetry, opp. melē (lyric poetry), iambeia, dithuramboi, etc., “rhaptōn epeōn aoidoi” Pi.N.2.2
-8.91 Thus sang the bard, but Odysseus drew his purple mantle over his head and covered his face, for he was ashamed to let the Phaeacians see that he was weeping. When the bard left off singing he wiped the tears from his eyes, uncovered his face, and, taking his cup, made a drink-offering to the gods; but when the Phaeacians pressed Demodokos to sing further, for they delighted in his lays, then Odysseus again drew his mantle over his head and wept bitterly. No one noticed his distress except Alkinoos, who was sitting near him, and heard the heavy sighs that he was heaving.
So he at once said, "Aldermen and town councilors of the Phaeacians, we have had enough now, both of the feast, and of the minstrelsy that is its due accompaniment; let us proceed therefore to the athletic sports [athlos], so that our guest on his return home may be able to tell his friends how much we surpass all other nations as boxers, wrestlers, jumpers, and runners."To this you answered, O swineherd Eumaios, "If these Achaeans, my lady, would only keep quiet, you would be charmed with the history of his adventures.
-Aesch. Seven 422 Eteocles
Here too gain follows with interest from gain. The tongue proves in the end to be an unerring accuser of men's wicked thoughts. [440] Capaneus makes his threats, ready to act, irreverent toward the gods, and giving his tongue full exercise in wicked glee, he, though a mere mortal, sends a loud and swollen boast to Zeus in heaven. But I trust that the fire-bearing thunderbolt will justly come to him, [445] and when it comes it will not be anything like the sun's mid-day heat. And against him, even though he is a big talker, a man of fiery spirit, mighty Polyphontes, is stationed, a dependable sentinel [450] with the good will of guardian Artemis and the other gods. Now tell me about another one allotted to other gates!Exit Polyphontes.
Titus 3:10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;A factious person is one who INTRODUCES something of HIS choice. He is a CHURCH STEALER. A sectarian or heretic steals or diverts wat is not his to his own purposes.
-Hairet-os ,A. that may be taken or conquered, “dolō” Hdt.4.201; to be understood, Pl.Phd. 81b. Tyrant.
-Hdt. 4.201 When much time had been spent and many on both sides (not less of the Persians than of their enemies) slain, Amasis the general of the foot soldiers devised a plot,
knowing that Barce could not be taken by force but might be taken by guile:
he dug by night a wide trench and laid frail planks across it,
which he then covered over with a layer of earth level with the ground about it.
This allowed a legalistic end-run around a sworn treaty when the earth was changed.
-Turann-is , II. despotic rule, obtained by force or fraud, tyranny, lordship over you,
A HERETIC IS A TROJAN
HORSE
-Haireō , A. Act., take with the hand, grasp, seize. enthen helōn having taken up [the song], Od.8.500. II. take, get into one's power, nēas ib.13.42; esp. take a city, 2.37, S.Ph.347, etc.; overpower, kill-Hom. Od. 8.469 I will declare to all mankind that the god has of a ready heart granted thee the gift of divine song.” So he spoke, and the minstrel, moved by the god, began, and let his song be heard, [500] taking up the tale where the Argives had embarked on their benched ships and were sailing away, after casting fire on their huts, while those others led by glorious Odysseus were now sitting in the place of assembly of the Trojans, hidden in the horse; for the Trojans had themselves dragged it to the citadel
And he sang how the sons of the Achaeans [515] poured forth from the horse and, leaving their hollow ambush, sacked the city. Of the others he sang how in divers ways they wasted the lofty city, but of Odysseus, how he went like Ares to the house of Deiphobus together with godlike Menelaus. There it was, he said, that Odysseus braved the most terrible fight [520] and in the end conquered by the aid of great-hearted Athena.
Paul outlaws SELF pleasure in Romans 15 to make the synagogue or church possible.WHY CHRIST OUTLAWED VOCAL OR INSTRUMENTAL REJOICING FOR THE CHURCH.
-War Rules DSS. The description of the trumpets.
[The Rule of the Trumpets: the trumpets] of alarm for all their service for the [ . . . ] for their commissioned men, 17[by tens of thousands and thousands and hundreds and fifties] and tens. Upon the t[rumpets . . . ]
[ . . . ] )8[ . . . ] 19[ . . . which ] 20 [,, . they shall write . . . the trumpets of Col. 3 the battle formations, and the trumpets for assembling them when the gates of the war are opened so that the infantry might advance, the trumpets for the signal of the slain, the trumpets of 2 the ambush, the trumpets of pursuit when the enemy is defeated, and the trumpets of reassembly when the battle returns.
But if they establish an ambush for a battle formation, the three ambushing formations shall [stay at a dist]ance and not ris[e up . . . ] '3 [ . . . ] the battle.
When they [h]ear the trumpets of alarm, the [infantry]men [shall begin to bring do]wn the guilty casualties. Then the ambush shall rise up from its place and also order its [battle form]ations [ . . . 3
Then the Chief Priest shall take his stand with his brothers the priests,] the Levites, and men [of the arm]y. And all the while the priests shall be sounding on the trumpets[ . . . ]
-AeiroREJECT means to decline HIS INVITATION: Divorce Him.
I. Act., lift, raise up 4. take up and bear, as a burden
6. raise, levy, “lekton aroumen stolon” A. Pers.795.
II. raise up, exalt, “apo smikrou d' an areias megan”
esp. of pride and passion, exalt, excite, hupsou ai. thumon grow excited, S.OT914;
2. raise by words, hence, praise, extol, E.Heracl.322, etc.; ai. logō to exaggerate, D.21.71.
Take away otrher people's property.
Titus 3:11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.The SUBVERTED person is the one attempting to MAKE CHANGES.
-Ekstrepo 2. metaph. in pf. part. Pass., genea exestrammenē perverse generation, LXXDe.32.20WE ARE TO SAVE OURSELVES FROM THE CROOKED RACE.
Deuteronomy 32.20 He said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: For they are a very perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.
-PERVERTO B. Trop., perverse, not right, wrong, evil, bad: “dies pervorsus atque advorsus,” Plaut. Men. 5, 5, 1: INFIDELIS I. that cannot be relied upon, unfaithful, faithless.
The Crooked Race were the perverted, wine-drinking skolion singers in the symposium.
G4646 skolios skol-ee-os' From the base of G4628 ; warped, that is, winding; figuratively perverse:crooked, froward, untoward.
-Skolios 1 curved, winding, twisted, tangled, Lat. obliquus, Hdt., Eur., etc.:-- bent sideways, douleiê kephalê skoliê (Hor. stat capite obstipo) Theogn.: metaph. crooked, i. e. unjust, unrighteous , Il., Hes., etc.; skolia prattein, eipein Plat.:--so adv. skoliôs, Hes.
Prattein, -Prassô II. experience certain fortunes, achieved bondage, i.e. brought it on himself, grant power of song, get something, plot, 3. of sexual intercourse, b. esp. of secret practices and intrigues
-Charis for his pleasure, for his sake, glôssês charin for one's tongue's pleasure, hy pleasure or sake, for the sake of my flesh, for the pleasure of devouring it, prassein, 4. love-charm, philtre, charizesthai (1.2), indulge, humour, orgêi, “tai Diōnusou sun boēlata kharites dithurambō” Pi.O.13.19
-Pind. O. 13 But the fame for every work is due to its inventor. Whence did the graces of Dionysus first come to light, with the ox-driving dithyramb? [20] Who invented the bridle for the harness of horses, or placed the double king of birds on top of the temples of gods? And in Corinth the sweet-breathing Muse blossoms, and also Ares, with the deadly spears of young men.Charizomai charizô , fut. chariô 3. in erotic sense, grant favours to a man,
THE LEADERSHIP: We believe in practicing liberty in matters of opinion, and we seek to speak where the Bible speaks and remain silent where it is silent. We will try to honor the ancient maxim: “In matters of faith, unity; in matters of opinion, liberty; in all matters, love.”
WE do not have the right to impose one's OWN opinion over the heads of others.
After silencing the music / diet sects in Romans 14 Paul defined "synagogue" which never changed:
Rom. 15:1 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak,Christ has Prempted you: If He has not written through the prophets and apostles, WE do not speak.
and not to please ourselves.
(this outlaws all of the hypocritic arts: rhetoric, singing with instruments)
Rom. 15:2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
Rom. 15:3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written,
The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
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.
Rom. 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded
one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
Rom. 15:6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God,
even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom. 15:7 Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.
THAT'S IT: FIRST EXCLUSIVE AND THEN INCLUSIVE.
With all unauthorized and all unfunded operatives of religion, it is not required to have read much of the Bible. Otherwise, they would grasp that from Genesis to Revelation and most recordedd history musical instruments are SOURCED from Satan to "make the lambs dumb before the slaughter" and to PREVENT the Word of God from being taught. Not using "machines for doing hard work mostly in making war and in creating the shock and awe of religious rituals" which in the Bible and the ancient languages MARKS witchcraft or sorcery.
Calling NOT using instruments traditionalism or "preferences" is truly an underhanded form of psychological violence. Even when none of the groups which flowed into the Church of Christ had EVER used instruments, they--not being able to blush--they claim that the Church of Christ INVENTED not using machines.
THE URGE FOR STYLES IS DEFINED ABOVE OF THE CROOKED RACE.
We Acknowledge
THE LEADERSHIP: We acknowledge that this is not an easy commitment to keep.As humans, each of us has strong feelings for particular styles and traditions that we,
for various reasons, don’t want to give up.
As humans, we acknowledge that some of us
simply do not like change but instead value stability.
Christ ordained Elders as the sole Pastor-Teachers to PREVENT those who assume the authority to CHANGE.
And as humans
we
confess our
tendency to want to 4 have things our own way,
even in
church. Just as the early church faced
tensions over various cultural and traditional issues,
we know that we
will face the
same. We also acknowledge that it is not always easy to determine
whether a
particular issue is a clear biblical teaching or a mere private
interpretation or stylistic
preference.
In Romans 14 Paul outlawed doubtful disputations which were the private opinions of the sects marked by diet but ALL highly addicted to music: that is why Jesus consigned the pipers, singers and instrument players to the marketplace with all of the other pollutants and commerce.
That would make the assembly possible dedicated SOLELY to speaking that which is written one to another.
The command was to leave CULTURE outside of the assembly which can never conform to culture.
BUT, AS USUAL WHEN THE STRUCTURE IS FINANCED THE INVADERS HAVE THEIR WAY AND CHASE OUT THE FOUNDERS.
THE LEADERSHIP: Knowing
what is a matter of faith and what is a matter of opinion is difficult
in some cases and may often require long periods of prayer, study,
and conversation, but the result is worth the effort.
No, prayer will not let you get a secret message: if it has been taught then it is FAITH. If it has not been taught then it is opinion. We know that the command is to teach THAT WHICH IS WRITTEN with one mind and one mouth. We who are disciple know that always excludes all of the hypocritic arts and crafts which stirs up the flesh and makes education (only) impossible.
If God has not radically condemned instruments and associated them with people dedicated to making the lambs dumb before the slaughterr then ALL OF CHURCH SCHOLARSHIP is just flat wrong and David is right.
We also acknowledge that, though many things may be permissible, not all things are helpful (1 Cor.6:12).
There
are
things
that
the
Scriptures allow
Christians to do in theory that may be harmful or even wrong in our
particular context. 2
For this reason, we acknowledge the need to balance Christian freedom with Christian responsibility,
No, the universal Biblical and scholarly meaning of CENI is that if God has not commanded or approved of some practice then it is NOT required to conduct School (only) of the Bible (only). Therefore, it cannot AID God and will always deliberately sow discord.
HOW TO FALL FROM GRACE WITHOUT REDEMPTION
In Romans 14 Paul outlawed doubtful disputations which were the private opinions of the sects marked by diet but ALL highly addicted to music: that is why Jesus consigned the pipers, singers and instrument players to the marketplace with all of the other pollutants and commerce.
That would make the assembly possible dedicated SOLELY to speaking that which is written one to another.
The command was to leave CULTURE outside of the assembly which can never conform to culture.
BUT, AS USUAL WHEN THE STRUCTURE IS FINANCED THE INVADERS HAVE THEIR WAY AND CHASE OUT THE FOUNDERS.
THE LEADERSHIP: Knowing
what is a matter of faith and what is a matter of opinion is difficult
in some cases and may often require long periods of prayer, study,
and conversation, but the result is worth the effort.
No, prayer will not let you get a secret message: if it has been taught then it is FAITH. If it has not been taught then it is opinion. We know that the command is to teach THAT WHICH IS WRITTEN with one mind and one mouth. We who are disciple know that always excludes all of the hypocritic arts and crafts which stirs up the flesh and makes education (only) impossible.
If God has not radically condemned instruments and associated them with people dedicated to making the lambs dumb before the slaughterr then ALL OF CHURCH SCHOLARSHIP is just flat wrong and David is right.
We also acknowledge that, though many things may be permissible, not all things are helpful (1 Cor.
For this reason, we acknowledge the need to balance Christian freedom with Christian responsibility,
No, the universal Biblical and scholarly meaning of CENI is that if God has not commanded or approved of some practice then it is NOT required to conduct School (only) of the Bible (only). Therefore, it cannot AID God and will always deliberately sow discord.
HOW TO FALL FROM GRACE WITHOUT REDEMPTION
1Cor. 10:6 Now these things were our examples, [PATTERNS}
to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
1Cor. 10:7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written,
The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
Christ has given us rest as PAUO which has the same meaning as SABBATH. The word REST specificially outlaws rising up to play meaning musically which always induces sexually.
Of The Golden Calf "From time immorial music had been especially valued in the service of prophecy. Pliny the Elder gives us a report of the cult of Apis:
"In Egypt an ox is honored in place of the god. He is called Apis and he lives in isolation. If he ever goes among the people he stalks along while the lictors make way for him and throngs of boys accompany him, singing songs in his honor. He appears to understand what is happening and seems to wish to be adored. The throngs [of boys] sudddenly become inspired and prophesy the future. (Pliny, Natural History)
Consequently Apollo (Abaddon, Apollyon) was god of prophets and musicians and Pan was god of medicine, music and divination.
FALSE PREACHERS USE THE BURNT OFFERING AS AUTHORITY: GOD HAD NOT COMMANDED ANY SACRIFCES.Exod 31:14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you:
every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death:
for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
8104. shamar, shaw-mar´; a primitive root; properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; .
Keep in Latin: -Custodio II. With the access. idea of hindering free motion, A. In gen., to hold something back, to preserve, keep: To prevent PLAY or -Ludo A. To sport, play with any thing, to practise as a pastime, amuse one's self with any thing, B. To sport, dally, wanton Esp., to play on an instrument of music, to make or compose music or song:
The instruments of the King and Commanders of the army made a great noise during the burning of the goats for Israel lost beyond redemption. The offering of the goat began to appease Satan.
-Verg. G. 2.386
For no offence but this to Bacchus bleeds
The goat at every altar, and old plays
Upon the stage find entrance; therefore too
The sons of Theseus through the country-side—
Hamlet and crossway—set the prize of wit,
And on the smooth sward over oiled skins
Dance in their tipsy frolic. Furthermore
The Ausonian swains, a race from Troy derived,
Make merry with rough rhymes and boisterous mirth,
Grim masks of hollowed bark assume, invoke
Thee with glad hymns, O Bacchus, and to thee
Hang puppet-faces on tall pines to swing.
Hence every vineyard teems with mellowing fruit,
Till hollow vale o'erflows, and gorge profound,
Where'er the god hath turned his comely head.
Therefore to Bacchus duly will we sing
Meet honour with ancestral hymns, and cates
And dishes bear him; and the doomed goat
Led by the horn shall at the altar stand,
Whose entrails rich on hazel-spits we'll roast.
The Egyptian Opis (Apis) and others which Israel worshipped at Mount Sinal were worshipped throughout the area. "In preference to all other hymns these choirs generally sang the so-called epiphany hymns,which were intended to invite the gods to appear. Plutarch wrote:
Why do the women of Elis call upon God in song to approach them with the bull's foot? Their song is the following:Come, Dionysus, Hero,
into the holy temple of Elis,
together with the Graces
come violently into the temple with the bull's foot!
Then they sang twice at the end: "Sacred Bull!" (Johannes Quasten, Music & Worship in Pagan and Christian Antiquity, p. 76)
"For nonliterate peoples, music often serves purposes other than entertainment or aesthetic enjoyment. Certain wind instrumentare closely associated with the supernatural, and their sounds connote powerful magic. Australian Aborigines, for instance, identify the sound of a bull-roarer with thevoices of supernatural beings; for the Plains Indians, the same sound signifies an awesome natural phenomenon, such as thunder. Wind instruments are often among a group's most important ritual objects, and in some cultures they are specially venerated. The Kamairua Indians of the Amazon rain forest keep their giant flutes (three to four feet long), wherein spirits are believed to dwell, in a special shrine where they are worshiped. The flutes and drums of New Guinea are similarly housed and worshiped.
"Wind instruments in primitive cultures also serve nonreligious functions. In New Guinea, bamboo trumpets were once playedto frighten an enemyduring battle and"Conch-shell trumpets are used for signaling in the Pacific coastal regions of Columbia and in the Ecuadoran highlands. Trumpets also may be associated with the office of king or chief, as in West Africa, where their use is strictly controlled by tribal law. "wind instrument" Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
to alert a village that the victorious warriors were coming home with the corpses of the foes.
WELL, NOT ALL THINGS!1Cor. 10:23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not."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).
"In the New Testament there is nowhere any emphasis laid on the musical form of the hymns; and in particular none on instrumental accompaniment whereas this is significantly paganism." (Delling, Gerhard, Worship in the New Testament, trans. Percy Scott Phil. Westminster press, 1962, p. 86).
THE LEADERSHIP: exercising our freedom in love (1 Cor. 16:14), for edifying others (1 Cor. 14:26), and for the glory of God (1 Cor. 10:31).Edifying is educating: Paul outlawed all of the arousal arts and artists and commanded that we use one mind and one mouth to teach "that which is written." Music is always spiritual abrading known from the foundation of the world and modern medical science. Music was called sacred violence because its goal was to make the lambs dumb before the slaughter.
In matters of opinion or judgment, we acknowledge the need to ask the question, “Will this help us to do what God wants done?” We do not wish to create an environment where freedom is exercised without concern for how such freedom will impact others.Lucky for true Disciples, the jury is in and people who do not know that may be plants: not even Judas knew his mision until Jesus had ground him the SOP: sop has the same root meaning as PSALLO which truly ignorant men try to twist into a mjusical term when it is a warfare term or perverted term other than "in the heart."
We Commit
THE LEADERSHIP: As leaders at North Boulevard, we commit to the instructions of Ephesians 4:2: “Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.” We pledge to extend freedom in matters of opinion and to encourage people to flourish within the freedom that Christ offers, so long as this freedom is used responsibly and in loving ways that edify others and glorify God.
ELDERS WHO LET THE WOLVES IN ARE IDENTIFIED AS GENDER CONFUSED: THE FLOCK WILL RUN.
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BEAST: no doubt about
it. -Lukos oresteroi [homosexual. snake, wolf] to be struck dumb, of things that are not, 'pigeon's milk', Suid.; hôs l. chanôn, of vain expectation, oin humenaioi, of an impossibility, Id.Pax1076, 1112, cf. Il.22.263; hôs lukoi arn' agapôsin, of treacherous or unnatural love, Poet. ap. Pl.Phdr.241d; lukou bion zên [ZOE], i. e. live by rapine, Prov. ap. Plb.16.24.4; ek lukou stomatos, of getting a thing praeter spem, Zen.3.48; tôn ôtôn echein ton lukon 'catch a Tartar', Apollod.Car.18, cf. Plb.30.20.8; l. aeton pheugei, of the inescapable, Diogenian.6.19; l. peri phrear choreuei, of those engaged in vain pursuits, ib.21. Chorus vain pursuits of Dionysus sing and play the kithara VI. nickname of paiderastai, AP12.250 (Strat.), cf. Pl.Phdr. 241d. -Humenai-oô , The hieros
gamos was the ultimate
expression
of what is termed 'temple
prostitution'
where a man visited a
priestess in order to receive gnosis - to experience the devine for
himself through the act of lovemaking. The word describing the
priestess was hierodule
which means 'sacred servent'.
Pistis (Faith) is Sophia or Wisdom: Her daughter is
called 'Eve of life' or
Zoe, the 'holy spirit'. i.e. prostitution The
Brides
and
Bridegrooms
in Revelation 18 performd this holy sex. All singers and musicians were honored to be the harem of the gods. -Psaltôid-eô ,
psaltOideo, KitheraOideo, Khor-euô dance a round or choral dance, take part in the chorus, regarded as a matter of religion, things represented in mimic dance, to celebrate marriages, things represented in mimic dance,' aulos husteron khoreuetō [flute, trumpet]justeron choreuetô
1 Pet. 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant;
because
your
adversary the devil,
as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: -kunikos , II. Kunikos, ho, Cynic, as the followers of the philosopher Antisthenes were called, from the gymnasium (Kunosarges) where he taught, D.L.6.13; or from their resemblance to dogs in several respects, ôruomai g 5612 Oryomai 1) to roar, to howl (of a lion, wolf, dog, and other beasts) The most beloved Mousa [Sokrates way] Aoide of the howling wolfa) of men, to raise a loud and inarticulate cry: either of grief, or of joy Heredotus 4 2) to sing with a loud voice PINDAR OLYMPIAN 9 -Heredotus 4: LXXV. The Scythians then take the seed of this hemp and, crawling in under the mats, throw it on the red-hot stones, where it smoulders and sends forth such fumes that no Greek vapor-bath could surpass it. [2] The Scythians howl in their joy at the vapor-bath. This serves them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water
-Pindar Olympian 9.[1] The resounding
strain of Archilochus, the swelling thrice-repeated song
of triumph, sufficed to lead Epharmostus to the hill of Cronus, in
victory-procession with his dear companions. The resounding strain of Archilochus, the swelling thrice-repeated song of triumph, sufficed to lead Epharmostus to the hill of Cronus, in victory-procession with his dear companions. [5] But now, from the bow of the Muses who, shooting from afar, send a shower of such arrows of song as these on Zeus of the red lightning-bolt and on the sacred height of Elis, which once the Lydian hero Pelops [10] won as the very fine dowry of Hippodameia. [11]
And shoot a winged sweet arrow to
Pytho;
for your words will not fall to the ground, short of the mark, TRILL: 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. 1 Cor 13:1 Chirruping
is
the
sounds
of the "locusts." -Teret-isma , atos, to/, |
We Ask
THE LEADERSHIP: We ask the congregation to be discerningbetween matters of faith
and matters of opinion.
We ask the congregation to be willing to accept
that some of the things we have done in the past at North Boulevard
are only traditions and that these traditions may not be necessary for following Jesus.
- IF you follow Christ in Prophecy you know that Judas would try to defeat him or triumph over him: this is the vocal or instrumental rejoicing OUTLAWED for the church.
- If you follow Jesus you will know that He cast out the Musical Minstrels (always pagan priestesses) using a term meaning like dung.
- If you follow Jesus you will consigned the pipers, singers and dancers to the marketplace.
- If you follow Jesus you will TEACH in the synagogues and go OUT to preach.
- If you follow Jesus you will never be able to pick up an instrument or go girlish musical.
- If you follow Jesus you will stand up to READ the assigned text and then decently SIT DOWN.
- And on and on.
Indeed, we ask the congregation to join usIf the hidden agenda includes music then this is probably a lie.
in recognizing that, from time to time,
our traditions may eclipse the Word of God
or even hinder God’s work.
HERE IS THE DIRECT COMMAND AND APPROVED EXAMPLE TO PREVENT THAT.
Acts 15:21 For Moses
of old time hath
in every city them that preach him,
being read in the synagogues
every sabbath day.
Again,
there is nothing based on evil traditons about congregational singing
and NOT hindering Christ by the use of music. Music means "to
silence the voice of the victim." When the preacher is pontificating
the Christ has to be silent. When the singers are musicating their own
words then Christ must be silent. The
TRADITIONALISM
includes located preachers and the law of giving.
Jesus found the traditions of the Pharisees to do just that: “Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition” (Matt. 15:6). We do not want to be like the Pharisees.
We ask the members of the body to appreciate
that we have many different opinions and traditions
and that we ought not to give our traditions the same weight as we do the Word of God.
We ask every member to be open to consider
when a tradition no longer serves its original purpose
or when it is preferable to alter a tradition or adopt a new custom or method.
HOW TO MARK SCRIBES AND PHARISEES JESUS CALLED HYPOCRITES
THE BURDEN IS SHIFTED: THOSE
WHO DELIBERATELY SOW MUSICAL DISCORD ARE OBLIGATED TO FIND A
COMMAND, EXAMPLE OR INFERENCE WHERE ANY OF GOD'S PEOPLE EVER WORSHIPPED
CONGREGATIONALLY WITH SINGING AND INSTRUMENTAL ACCOMPANIMENT.
They are further obligated to show why they deliberately ignore the 100% Biblicaland historical evidence which connects instruments to Satan as the SOURCE, to witches and sorcerers (Revelation 18), to warriors creating panic, to sacrificial (not commanded) EXORCISTS, to prostitutes and Sodomites which plagued Jerusalem and all sacrificial altars.
"Judging" is inflicting punishment on people for their own fun and profit.
THE LEADERSHIP: We further ask that every member exercise care
not to judge other members merely on the basis of cultural, traditional, or stylistic norms.
As Paul concludes “So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God. Therefore let us stop passing judgment
They are further obligated to show why they deliberately ignore the 100% Biblicaland historical evidence which connects instruments to Satan as the SOURCE, to witches and sorcerers (Revelation 18), to warriors creating panic, to sacrificial (not commanded) EXORCISTS, to prostitutes and Sodomites which plagued Jerusalem and all sacrificial altars.
"Judging" is inflicting punishment on people for their own fun and profit.
THE LEADERSHIP: We further ask that every member exercise care
not to judge other members merely on the basis of cultural, traditional, or stylistic norms.
As Paul concludes “So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God. Therefore let us stop passing judgment
FOR THAT REASON WE WILL TRY TO MAKE THE PEOPLE UNDER ATTACK MORE LITERATE.
2 Paul’s discourse on eating meats that had first been sacrificed in the name of idols demonstrates this truth. Paul admits that there is nothing wrong with such meat and that Christians may eat it with clear consciences. At the same time, however, Paul warns his Corinthian readers that they might inadvertently lead a former idolater back into paganism by exercising this freedom. He even expresses concern that one might end up mixing the table of Christ with the table of demons by eating such meat. Paul shows a careful balance between freedom in Christ and Christian responsibility—a balance we must practice today as well. See 1 Corinthians 8-10. 5
on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother's way” (Rom. 14:12-13).
THE TRUTH ABOUT ROMANS 14 WHERE THESE FALSE TEACHERS ARE SILENCED ABSOLUTELY
Paul outlaws "doubtful disputations" in Romans 14: this would be any opionion or preference which comes out of the human mind. The three sects which would be identified and possibly judged in the marketplace were the Dionysiacs, Orphics, and the Phythagoreans: he invented the word KOSMOS or WORLD and Jesus said He would not even pray for them. The DIETARY mark includes all of the practices which used loud vocal and instrumental music. In writing Romans 15 Paul defined the synagogue which was ordained in the wildernes by Christ the Rock:
“Disputing” implies a questioning mind and suggests an arrogant attitude by those who assume they’re always right. Arguing with others in the body of Christ is disruptive. That’s why Paul spent the first part of chapter 2 on humility.
To dwell above, with saints we love, that will be grace and glory
But to live below with saints we know, now that’s a different story!Dialogismos is used 14 times in the NAS (Matthew; Mark; Luke 6x; Romans 2x; 1 Corinthians; Philippians; 1 Timothy; James) and is translated as: argument, 1; disputing, 1; dissension, 1; doubts, 1; motives, 1; opinions, 1; reasonings, 2; speculations, 1; thoughts, 3; what...were thinking, 2
Dialogismos is used 11 times in the Septuagint (LXX) (Ps 40:5, 56:5, 92:5, 94:11, 139:2, 139:20, 146:4, Isa 59:7, Jer 4:14, Lam 3:60-61) Dialogismos often means the perverse, vain thinking which contemplates destruction (Ps. 94:11), and is turned against God (Jer. 4:14; Isa. 59:7) and against the godly (Ps. 56:5).
PAUL USED SYNAGOGUE WORDS FOR THE ASSEMBLY OR GATHERING
It was INCLUSIVE of
Rest, Reading and Rehearsing the Word of God: what Disciples.
It was EXCLUSIVE
of vocal or instrumental rejoicing: what godly and reverent people
CANNOT do.
WHY PEOPLE LUSTING TO UPSET COMFORT ZONES ARE NOT FIT FOR THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST.
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The choice is not
between preaching (one of the hypocritic arts) and drama
which is explicitely outlawed in the Latin version
where Paul outlawed self-pleasure just before he defined the role of
the ekklesia or synagogue to "speak that which is written with one mind
and one mouth." People would not NEED to attend BIBLE SCHOOL (only) if
they were smart enought to TWIST the Word of God. One of the
first things you do NOT do with the weak minded who are unable to do
RATIONAL (spiritual) discernment is to afflict
them with the hypocritic arts such as the word SINGING
which is translated as SORCERY.
-Romans XV. debemus autem nos firmiores inbecillitates infirmorum sustinere et non nobis placere
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