Rick Atchley Defending Instrument Music

Rick Atchley of Richland Hills Church of Christ claims Apostolic authority to sow discord among familes just to impose instrumental music? It has been in the works for years and navigating the winds of change is easier than BLOWING false spirits.  Read the added lower notes that proves that this is rank paganism. Rick and David Faust have Mark Henderson at Quail Springs doing catch up with a lot of sowing of discord.

8.15.11 The "Stone" term intends to say that what became The Churches of Christ sected out of the Disciples/Christian churches. Of course, there was nothing in common between the two groups at the time and the NACC or Christian Churches sected out of the Disciples from 1927 until 1971 when they were de-listed. That was the time the Christian Churches began "unity" efforts intended to convert everyone to their musical apostasy.

Rick Atchley reading off the NACC's "white" paper uses the Levites to say that God COMMANDED that Instruments be used in His church.But, Jacob prophesied of Jesus and warned us NOT to attend the assemblies of the Levites or join in an covenant with them: that is because they employed "instruments" which word includes swords as well as the psaltery.
JACOB PROPHESIED OF THE HOSTILE ISRAELITES OF JEWS BEFORE THE COMING OF CHRIST.

GOD WARNED ABOUT THE TRIBE OF LEVI IN PROPHEY. God said DON'T use them as a patternism: the false teachers INSIST that a "spirit" told them that God COMMANDED him to impose the Levites.  Because the nation was a NATIONAL Civil-Military-Clergy complex so common in all of the nations, this warning would fit any time period even now.

Genesis 49.5 Symeon et Levi fratres vasa iniquitatis bellantia

Gen. 49:5 Simeon and Levi are brethren;
        instruments (h3617 weapon, psaltery)
        of cruelty are in their habitations.
                 (stabbing, dig through furnace, for burning
                 Bellor fight,  carry on war,

h3617 a musical instrument, instruments of God's Wrath. The devices of the evil used to carry out HIS judgment.

         Cruelty h2555 unjust gain Habitations h4380 Stabbing, a sword a furnace, boiling
         Instruments:  7015. qiynah, kee-naw´; from 6969; a dirge (as accompanied by beating the breasts
                               or on instruments):—lamentation.       
                       6969. quwn, koon; a primitive root; to strike a musical note, i.e. chant or wail (at a funeral):—
                       lament, mourning woman [from CAIN]

Remember That Cain was of the wicked one and Paul said that Eve was totally deceived as a wife is taken before her husband.

GOD GAVE ISRAEL THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT OF GRACE: THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT

The people refused to hear it from God and demanded Moses as mediator (preacher, pastor). They were made deaf and dumb so they could not read the BLACK text on BROWN paper unto they converted to Christ.  Moses promised another Prophet like Him and He would be the final word from God (2 Cor 3)

This proves that the Atchley etal pattern is the MARK of people who are no longer able to read or hear the word which was READ in the synagogues.
When they refused to hear THE WORD OF GOD the sentence was that they fell immediately into MUSICAL IDOLATRY of the Egyptian trinity. God removed the Covenant of Grace, abandoned them to worship the starry host (Acts 7; Amos). AGAIN, this is a pattern or motiff so that when you HEAR the sounds of trumpets and other instruments it is the MARK that God had made you blind and deaf and turned you over to BURN GOATS which is Rick Atchley's (NACC) PATTERN for the use of the cursed Levites' instruments under the King and Commanders of the Army and sent you on your path to return to Babylon, captivity and death.
The Jacob-Cursed Levites received their commission or that which GOD COMMANDED in Rick Atchley's proof text from 2 Chronicles 29: They, like modern musical worship and rhetorical teams JUMPED at the opportunity to slay the souls of innocent lambs.

Exodus 32:27 And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.

Exodus 32:28 And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

The Levites as the Soothsaying with Instrumental accompanient with their weapons was God's commanto EXECUTE all of those who fall into MUSICAL IDOLATRY.  If a musical worship team or praise team has invaded your congregation it is proof that you have CONDONED ignoring the Word of God--as it is written for our learning (Rom 15) and the team has been sent to EXECUTE you spiritually: the godly WILL flee.

In Revelation 18 the Sorcerers with Instrumental accompaniment are EXPELLED from the "holy place" or Body of Christ at the same time Jesus comes and removes his Lamps (18:13) which are the seven spirits all related to Divine knowledge.

This is absolutely proven when God through Moses promised to execute any Levite or other singer-players who can NEAR any holy thing or INTO any holy place. The Holy Place was an earthly pattern of the Tabernacle in heaven: the only thing in there are the Menorah (Truth), the Bread of fellowship and looking into the Most Holy place tthe Incense altar which replaces both the prayers and the harps OF God

When David became king the Levites who had driven the enemy into cowardice with instruments were SURPLUS and under the King and Commanders of the army he commanded that they stand guard on all of the future temple rituals: the loud noise was a WARNING against any civillian not to come INSIDE the gates or be executed. That is why all sacrificial musicians (noise makers) were called PARASITES and so they are.
Those who USE the Levitical singers (Parasites) are the slaughter priests known as HERETICS: they lift them up literally or with music to cut their throats.  This is outlawed by the word for Self-pleasure in Romans 15 and that includes all of the performing or hypocritic arts and crafts.
The godly people always attended synagogue or the Church of Christ (the Rock) beginning in the wilderness where vocal or instrumental rejoicing including any high rhetoric was outlawed.
The alarm or "triumph over" word means "vocal or instrumental rejoicing or any high-sounding rhetoric. This was a RESERVED word first used to MARK Judas in Psalm 41: when the Levites musically mocked Jesus up to the cross, this was a SUPERNATURAL SIGN that the Violent Men using Violent means took the kingdom (Jesus) bur only for an instant: Then as with all of the instrumental noise was the SIGNAL that the Levites and their instruments woulld be tossed into the garbage pit--a lake of fire--to be consumed by maggots and fire.
Christians could not even hallucinate making instrumental noise to take the attention (worship) fromJesus and His Word. Giving heed to the Words of Christ in the Prophets and Apostles is the ONLY definition of "worship" in the Bible in a spiritual sense.These changeling-hirelings have restored IMPURE religion or worship or Threskia derived from Orheus -- that Thracian.

See the Story of the Levites who assisted in burnt offering of infants BEFORE Rick's authority and just AFTER Rick's authority.

If you ignore Jacob and attend their assemblies, remember that God has no grace for the blind who follow the blind.

http://www.piney.com/Levites2.html

No one prior to 1878 ever though that the "psallo" word had any connection to the use of instruments in what the Churches of Christ
        called A School of Christ
        where worship was Reading and Musing the Word of God: that began by Christ in the wilderness.

No scholar believed that God COMMANDED the use of instruments (to make noise) in the worship of the godly Israelites who attended synagogue and were quarantined from the "worship of the starry host" at the national Temple.

Not until the latest effort to dupe a few preachers and pseudo-scholars has anyone ever said that God commanded instrumental music in the worship of God and YOU had better not disobey.

1. If you say that God commanded the Levite's instruments in the worship of the Jews.
2. And God has not commanded anyone to use musical instruments at any time or place.
3. The Holy Spirit of Christ speaking through Jeremiah 23 marks you as blaspheming the Holy Spirit.

Preachers and pseudo-scholars use Hezekiah's plague stopping contract with God offering Burnt Goats to appease Israel (the instrumental sect) say that God Commanded the Levites to Play the Musical Instruments. Sure, you can be a scholar without ever having read the whole plot.

Christ the Holy Spirit speaking through the Prophets (not Scribes) said

 For I spake NOT unto your fathers, nor  commanded them
             in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
             concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: Jeremiah 7:22
  But this thing commanded I them, saying,
            Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: (CENI)
            and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, (CENI)
            that it may be well unto you. Jeremiah 7:23

Jer 23:17 They say still unto them that despise me,
        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 the church houses of widows" much better than Pharisees. 

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.

7.12.11
Review of Truitt Adair's review of Rick Atchley.  Preachers are shooting blanks and keeping their career path safe as long as they agree that Amos (by the Spirit of Christ) condemned only their "attitude." And as long as they say that God commanded anything in the cursed king, kingdom, temple, sacrificial system at which they made exorcism noises never called music. The church is built upon the Prophets and Apostles all who radically condemn the the Civil-Military-Clergy complex as robbers, parasites and hypocrites (defined as speakers, singer and instrument players). There is NO historic scholar who did not agree that Amos was condemning the use of instruments in Samaria.

When Ahaz took the sacrifices and noise (never music) outside of Jerusalem he violated God's law which quarantined the horrors behind closed doors .  If you become a Levite singer outside of the Temple in Jerusalem the PATTERN is that God will send a plague upon you.

See how Rick Atchley and Chris Seidman tell you how they diverted your children.

7.04.11 THIS IS THE DIRECT COMMAND

2Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season,
        out of season; reprove, rebuke,
        exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

There is not a single command, example of inference of congregational singing with or without instruments. This SILENCE is used by the ANTI-church agents of the NACC while they deliberately ignore the masses of information that the Words of God are to be Spoken or Read: the elders in the synagogue as overseers literally watched over the younger readers to make certain that they did not add or subtract from the written text.

Most of recorded history understood that the only command was to preach or teach: the only resource was the WORD unless you think you are superior to Jesus Christ Who left us the Prophets and Apostles upon which to build or educate the body of Christ.

Cantillation: [The Sephardim have also melodies for the Books of Esther, Ruth, Song of Solomon, and Lamentations of Jeremiah. Not only the canonical books of Scripture, but the Mishna and probably the Jemarah, were recited to cantillation; an edition of the former as late as 1553 was printed with musical accents. (De Sola, p. 12.)]

As the primary use of accents is to point out the usual elevation of the voice, as shown by the Greek accents, which were a comparatively late addition to their written language,

But the very irregularity of this sort of chant renders it singularly appropriate for use to poems of a complicated or constantly changing rhythm, such as the Psalms.

Jesus quoted Christ in Ezekiel 33 to identify hypocrites as speakers, singers and instrument players: Christ also warned about the Lying Pen of the Scribes in their record of the temple--which God did not command.

O, I want to be a Scribe and write
And make my poems and songs
O, I want to be a Scribe and pen
Some scripture false but strong.

O, I want to be a Pharisee
Learn rhetoric tricks of slight
O, I want to be a Pharisee
And spread some plagues and blight.

Oh, I want to be a hypocrite
Strong and brave and true
O, I want to sing and clap and play
O, wont you join me too.

We all could join the mighty team
One or two or three
We all could twist and turn
Like serpents on the tree.
                ~ Kenneth Sublett

God ordained both the resources and method of presentation:

"Hallel, in Jewish ritual, selection from the Psalms, chanted as part of the liturgy during certain festivals. The more frequently used selection includes Psalms 113-118 and is known as the Egyptian Hallel, presumably because Psalm 114 begins, "When Israel went out of Egypt"

It is sung in synagogues on the first two days of Passover, on Shabuoth, on Sukkot, on each morning of the eight days of Hanukkah, and at the close of the Seder.

"The Hallel through the generations, on specific occasions: Pesachim 117a
"Hallel requires a full stomach and a satisfied spirit: Taanis 25b-26a
The reading is beloved to the people, and so they listen closely: Megillah 21b

"The Hallel as an Institution of the Prophets, to use to pray for salvation from danger: Pesachim 117a [2x] Saying the Hallel daily is blasphemous: Shabbos 118b

SPEAKING IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE EKKLESIA, SYNAGOGUE OR CHURCH must be stripped of everything human talent can bring: that woud deny that Christ as the personified WORD who spoke only what He heard from God the Father was good enough.

Psa 60:1 (To the chief Musician upon Shushaneduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand.) 

LX. in finem in hymnis David [2] exaudi Deus deprecationem meam intende orationi meae [3] a finibus terrae ad te clamavi dum anxiaretur cor meum in petra exaltasti me deduxisti me

Hymnus , i, m., = humnos, I. a song of praise, a hymn: “hymnus cantus est cum laude Dei,” Aug. Enarr. in Psa. 148, 17; Ambros. Expos. Psa. 118, prol. § 3; Lucil. ap. Non. 330, 9; Prud. Cath. 37 praef.; 4, 75: “divinorum scriptor hymnorum,” Lact. 4, 8, 14; Vulg. Psa. 60 tit.; id. Matt. 26, 30.

-Oratio, I. a speaking, speech, discourse, language

I. In gen., the connection of words to express thought: non est autem in verbo modus hic, sed in oratione, id est, in continuatione verborum, Cic. 3, 42, 167 .

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, 

Logos, verbal noun of lego
        Opposite kata pathos
        Opposite music, poetry or rhetoric
        Opposite human reasoning
        Opposite Epagoge bringint in to one's aid, introduction
                Alurement, enticement, incantation, spell

Opposite Pathos  A. that which happens to a person or thing, incident, accident,
where this incident took place, unfortunate accident,
2. what one has experienced, good or bad, experience
II. of the soul, emotion, passion (“legō de pathē . . holōs hois hepetai hēdonē ē lupē” Arist.EN1105b21), “sophiē psukhēn pathōn aphaireitai”
Opposite Poiein to excite passion, Arist.Rh.1418a12; V. Rhet., emotional style or treatment, to sphodron kai enthousiastikon p. Longin.8.1; “pathos poiein” Arist. Rh.1418a12; “

See the Logos (Word and masculine) versus Mythos (songs, sermons effeminate)

2Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine;
        but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers,
        having itching ears; [eager for combat, pleasure, to be wanton]

hugi^-ainō  Opposite. turbulent agitators, Plb.28.17.12

1 Timothy 1.10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

1 Tim 1:11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God,
............ which was committed to my trust.

2 Cor 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.

Kapeleuo (g2585) kap-ale-yoo'-o; from kapelos , (a huckster); to retail, i.e. (by impl.) to adulterate (fig.): - corrupt

kapêl-euô , to be a retail-dealer, drive a petty trade Hdt. 1.155
mathēmata sell learning by retail, hawk it about,
“k. ton logon tou theou” 2 Ep.Cor.2.17; k. tēs hōras anthos or tēn hōran, of prostitutes,

Hdt. 1.155 But pardon the Lydians, and give them this command so that they not revolt or pose a danger to you: send and forbid them to possess weapons of war, and order them to wear tunics under their cloaks and knee-boots on their feet, and to teach their sons lyre-playing [kitharizein] and song [psallein] and dance and shop-keeping. And quickly, O king, you shall see them become women instead of men, so that you need not fear them, that they might revolt.”

Like rotten lettuce
Plat. Prot. 313d And in the same way, those who take their doctrines the round of our cities, hawking them about to any odd purchaser who desires them,
        commend everything that they sell,
        and there may well be some of these too, my good sir,
        who are ignorant which of their wares is

Music to substitute for the Word of Christ in the Prophets and Apostles is clearly promoted as something that "attracts" people: Albert Barnes called it the lust of the eyes and ear.

Epithum-êtês , oi, ho,
A. one who longs for or desires, neôterôn ergôn Hdt.7.6 ; [dogmatôn] And.4.6; ergôn Lys.12.90 ; timês, sophias, Pl.R.475b, etc.; phusei polemou e. Arist.Pol.1253a6; kakôn 1 Ep.Cor.10.6 ; allotriôn BGU531 ii 22 (ii A.D.).
2. . abs., lover, follower, X.Mem.1.2.60.
b. . one who lusts, LXX Nu.11.34.

Lusting for NEW things: Neos “en tois mousikois ta n. melē eudokimei” X.Cyr.1.6.38;

Xen. Cyrop. 1.6.38 However, my son,” he continued, “since you are desirous of learning all these matters, you must not only utilize what you may learn from others, but you must yourself also be an inventor of stratagems against the enemy, just as musicians render not only those compositions which they have learned but try to compose others also that are new. Now if in music that which is new and fresh wins applause, new stratagems in warfare also win far greater applause, for such can deceive the enemy even more successfully.

Dogma , atos, to, (dokeō) that which seems to one, opinion or belief, philosophical doctrines

God HIDES Himself from the wise or sophists.

SOPHIA A.cleverness or skill in handicraft and art, Hephaestus , in music and singing, in poetry

Sophistês , ou, ho, 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, sophistês . . parapaiôn chelun A.Fr.314 , cf. Eup.447, Pl.Com. 140; sophistêi Thrêiki (sc. Thamyris) E.Rh.924, cf. Ath.14.632c: with mod 2. sophist (in bad sense), quibbler, cheat, goeta one who howls out enchantments, a sorcerer, enchanter. Goes

ENCHANTMENTS

Epôid-os , on, epaidô b. Subst., enchanter, e. kai goês E.Hipp. 1038 (but goês e. Ba.234): c. gen., a charm for or against, 2. Pass., sung to music, phônai Plu.2.622d ; fit for singing, poiêtikên e. parechein M.6.16 . 1. epôidos , hê , Sch.metr. Pi.O.4 ( ho , Gal.UP17.3, dub. in D.H.Comp.19), epode, part of a lyric ode sung after the strophe and antistrophe, ib.26, Gal. l.c., Sch.metr. Pi.l.c., etc. 2. epôidos , ho , verse or passage returning at intervals, in Alcaics and Sapphics, D.H.Comp.19 ; chorus, burden, refrain, Ph. 1.312 : metaph., ho koinos hapasês adoleschias e. the 'old story',

Thraix a Thracian; ionic Thrêïx, ïkos, pl. Thrêïkes [i^], Il., Hdt., etc.; epic contr. Thrêix, Thrêikos, Il., Trag., etc.

Orpheus the Thracian was the originator of ritual worship called Threskia

Sophos , ē, on, poets and musicians, Pi.O.1.9, P.1.42, 3.113; en kithara s. E.IT1238 (lyr.),

HERE IS PROOF THAT YOU WILL NOT ENDURE SOUND DOCTRINE:

2Timothy 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth,
        and shall be turned unto fables.

FABLES TO FOOL: Fābŭla , ae, f. fari,

B.  Of particular kinds of poetry.

1.  Most freq., a dramatic poem, drama, play (syn.: “ludus, cantus, actio, etc.): in full, fabula scaenica,” Amm. 28, 1, 4; “or, theatralis,” id. 14, 6, 20: “fabula ad actum scenarum composita,”fabulam, quae versatur in tragoediis atque carminibus non a veritate modo

FABLES TO FOOL:  Cantus , ūs, m. id., I. the production of melodious sound, a musical utterance or expression, either with voice or instrument; hence, song, singing, playing,
1. With the voice, a singing, song; in full, cantus vocum, Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 134: “fit etiam saepe vocum gravitate et cantibus ut pellantur animi, etc.,
2. With instruments, a playing, music: “citharae,” “horribili stridebat tibia cantu,” Cat. 64, 264: “querulae tibiae,  “lyrae,” Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 72: “tibicine

2Timothy 4:5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions,
        do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

Euangel-istês ,  A. bringer of good tidings: hence, evangelist, preacher of the gospel, Act.Ap.21.8. II.proclaimer of oracular messages, 2.declare, tell, tout'ekêruchthêpolei this news was spread in

1Pet. 4:11 If any man speak,
        let him speak as the oracles of God;
        if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth:
        that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ,
        to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city
        them that preach him,
        being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
1Tim. 4:13 Till I come, give attendance to [public] reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

The Synagogue had no preaching as in "sermonizing" and allegozing was outlawed. The Word was read in a systematic sense as when the text was magically opened when Jesus stood up to read and then sat down.  They explained or often translated and admonished everyone to observe that "read portion." The object is not to preach but to teach "that which has been taught" even as we are commanded to "sing that which is written with one mouth and one mind' as the only way to glorify God who wrote the songs and sermons, to comfort WITH Scripture and keep the unity always upset by human imaginings.

Homer, Odyssey 14. Then the much-enduring, goodly Odysseus answered him: “Friend, since thou dost utterly make denial, and declarest [150] that he will never come again, and thy heart is ever unbelieving, therefore will I tell thee, not at random but with an oath, that Odysseus shall return. And let me have a reward for bearing good tidings, as soon as he shall come, and reach his home; clothe me in a cloak and tunic, goodly raiment.

[155] But ere that, how sore soever my need, I will accept naught;
        for hateful in my eyes as the gates of Hades is that man,
        who, yielding to stress of poverty, tells a deceitful tale.
A description of Hades or Tartarus

kêrussô , to be a herald, officiate as herald, A herald never makes up news. 2. declare, tell, tout' ekērukhthē polei this news was spread in

Humn-eō , Ep. humneiō Hes.Op.2; Ep.3pl. II. Tell over and over again, harp upon, repeat, recite,; humnousi ; ton nomon humnein recite the form of the law, Id.Lg.871a:

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5.01.11 Well prophesied in Revelation 17-18

John T. Willis 2. "Sing" is vocal; "make melody" is instrumental. Psalms 33:2-3; 144:9; 149:1, 3 make this crystal clear. Amos 5:23 further verifies this reality.  People forget that God turned Israel over to worship the starry host because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. The Levites were under the KING and the COMMANDERS of the army: they made war and not worship. We will examine these passages in context.

Church is Ekklesia or Synagogue: both for instruction only: both exclusive of any performing arts: you don't do music when God's Word is taught.  I submit that you cannot be a Christian if you do not understand the meaning of "teach them what I have commanded to be taught."

4.17.11.  Rick Atchley etal use the Burnt offering of the goats to appease Israel as the patternism which says that "God commanded instrumentl praise and we must not be disobedient." God had turned primarily the Jacob-cursed tribe of Levi over to worship the starry host. This was based on the musical idolatry of the Egyptian trinity at Mount Sinai. This was, and is in several passages, a sin beyond redemption.

Acts 7 has Stephen murdered for daring to tell the clergy that the Temple was NOT commanded because God does not live in houses built by human hands nor is He worshipped by the works of human hands--music being one of the most works-intensive forms of legalism. Just as any disciple can see that musical idolatry was what invited God to turn the Levi tribe over to worship the starry host, Stephen quotes Amos to prove the nature of the God-abandoned Jewish worship. That is what the "scholars" all believe that God commanded them to impose on you. Musica always meant to make the lambs dumb before the slaughter.

Christ the Spirit does NOT speak through abandoned king, priests or musicians. Christ inspired the godly prophets ALL of whom call the restored Civil-Clergy complex as robbers and parasites.  You have to be pretty slick to fool so many people into believing that God commanded THEM to restore what Jesus died to put down. Christ speaks through the prophets and the prophecies made more perfect by Jesus speaking to the Apostles. The church is built on the prophets and apostles: not on a huge staff.

Acts 7:41 And they made a calf in those days,
        and offered sacrifice unto the idol,
        and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

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 i
            n 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 played

        to frighten an enemy during battle (David's Halal) and
        to alert a village that the victorious warriors were coming home with the corpses of the foes.

Moses identified idolatry as the alternative:
Exod 32:18 And he said,
1.        It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery,
2.        neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome;
           but the noise of them that sing do I hear.

    "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.

Euphrainō , Ep. euphr-, fut. Att.155.12, Pi.I.7(6).3
Pind. I. 6 Just as we mix the second bowl of wine when the men's symposium is flourishing, here is the second song of the Muses for Lampon's children and their athletic victories: first in Nemea, Zeus, in your honor they received the choicest of garlands,

This is the Crooked Race we are warned to save ourselves FROM.

Pind. I. 7   In which of the local glories of the past, divinely blessed Thebe, did you most delight your spirit? Was it when you raised to eminence the one seated beside Demeter of the clashing bronze cymbals, flowing-haired [5] Dionysus? Or when you received, as a snow-shower of gold in the middle of the night, the greatest of the gods, when he stood in the doorway of Amphitryon, and then went in to the wife to beget Heracles?

But since ancient grace sleeps, and mortals are forgetful of whatever does not reach the highest bloom of skillful song, joined to glorious streams of words, [20] then begin the victory procession with a sweet-singing hymn for Strepsiades;

2.20.11
Jay Guin is a good lawyer: he has come up with a new foundational authority for instrumental music.  However, his premise that God commanded the king, kingdom, temple, animal sacrifices and the associated instrumental noise is wrong: there is no historic scholarship among the church fathers that God commanded that which was the result of "firing" God and demanding a human king.

1.04.11 When people speak out of their own imagination instead of the Word as Spirit by Christ in the Prophets and Apostles, Christ calls it blasphemy.  Of Hezekiah's Plague stopping exorcism used to say that "God commanded instrumental praise and we must not be disobedient" Christ calls them BLASPHEMERS.

See Christ defining Blasphemy of The Holy Spirit

For I spake NOT unto your fathers, nor  commanded them
        in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
         concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: Jeremiah 7:22
But this thing commanded I them, saying,
         Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: (CENI)
         and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, (CENI)
         that it may be well unto you. Jeremiah 7:23

Jer 23:17 They say still unto them that despise me,
        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"

    Despise tthe Word of God of God and using your own words is:

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.

See Jay Guin promoting the Progressive Church of Christ (with Christ removed) by defending Rick Atchley and Chris Seidman who explain how to make YOUR church fall from grace by IMPOSING instrumental music: the MARK of bad people.

The FUTURE OF THE PROGRESSIVE CHURCH OF CHRIST is defined by Christ in Isaiah 30 and John in Revelation 18.

Click for the latest PLEADINGS looking for some justification and discuss.

Lynn Anderson  Psallo justifies Instrumental Music and sowing of Discord.   This is just a small number of false teachings cused at Oak Hills Church (Ex Church of Christ). The plan was for quiet strings in an extra room: this has sowed massive discord and now arrived it its planned destination of a full Rock and Roll performance. The ex-congregation just stands in shock and awe.  Rick Atchley promised not to "have instrumental music on Sunday until Jesus returned" but being post modern that meant what he REALLY thought inside.

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

The Fruits of THE BLUEPRINT TOUR

Christian Church	Virtual Christian Church
Bob Russell, Southeast Christian Church Ben Merold, Harvester Christian Church Allan Dunbar, North American Christian Conv. Barry McMurtrie, Crossroads Christian Church Bob Russel	Rick Atchley, Richland Hills Church of Christ Rubel Shelly, Family of God at Woodmont Hills Mike Cope, Highland Church of Christ Randy Harris, Abilene Christian University Max Lucado

Wade Hodges, Tulsa Soul Stealing Workout: Our theme is "For the Good of the World, To the Glory of God." Our list of confirmed speakers includes Rick Atchley, Chuck Booher, Mike Cope, Allan Dunbar, Max Lucado, Marvin Phillips, Bob Russell, and Jeff Walling.

A highlight of this year's workshop will be special evening sessions featuring tag-team keynotes by preachers from Acapella Churches of Christ and Independent Christian Churches. I'm especially looking forward to the Friday night keynote when Max Lucado and Bob Russell will speak together.

Max Lucado was picked off had a VISION which told him to remove the name of CHRIST off the church.  I cannot say that there was a cause and effect but a Baptist Publisher told him the same thing.  The VISON also told him to add musical instruments.  Farmer's Branch dared us to refute their WHITE PAPER and I would say that the VISION came from drinking from Farmer's Branch. The Oracle of Delphi under Apollo (Apollyon) got her vision from drinking from a spring and sniffing gas.  We have done a tedius review of Farmer's Branch BLACK LIES and if you have a specific passage being used as a spear to take you captive you can find it in these papers.

Experimenting with Instrumental Music: The fatal flaw in the garden of Eden and in every FALL beyond redemption is EXPERIMENTING.. Farmer's Branch Church of Christ Part One: Farmer's Branch Church of Christ Part Two A look at the word NAGAN 10/08 Added: Isa 47 defines the end-time Babylon Whore religion of Rev 18 now appearing at your local "church."

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. No one can doubt that Paul put the singing AND melody in the HEART and not upon a harp! If it breaks toward the MUSICAL side someone is trying to deceive someone as the "serpent" musically enchanted Eve while Adam went willingly.

The Oak Hils repudiation No apology for the pictures: all known evidence implicates a CROOKED GENERATION which were males USING the flute-girls and boys in the SYMPOSIUM implicated when Paul said that "an elder must not go NEAR WINE."

You may not have a FULL DECK if you think the DECK is not stacked: with minimal impact it seems as people catch on to the infiltrate and divert BLUEPRINT.

We have discussed each of Rick's false teachings on a forum where people get a chance to reply
This begins at the December 18 post Rick's First SET UP for MUSIC: Spirit OF Christ repudiates Him!

David Faust has picked up the absurd notion that God commanded instrumental praise when he permitted or abandoned Israel to form their own nation.  We have done a quick summery of the FALL FROM GRACE because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai.  All that the false teachers us is derived from a FALLEN NATION doomed--even at Sinai--to return to their old Babylonianism.

Click for a "comic book" illustration to prove that the temple dedication was not proof of God having an orgastic fit caused by the music (really NOISE) but proof that God had  SHUT OFF access to the Word (once in the Ark) and His GRACE under the MERCY seat. Until people are baptized into Christ they can never come boldly before the throne of Grace.

This will link you to the review of David Faust which is a review of Atchley. This covers several fact-packed but not prosey rebuttal in numerous papers.

These people deliberately lie TO God and ABOUT God.  This gives rise to the ANTI-instrumental term which defines those who remained faithful for 2,000 years as destructive and worthy of destruction.

Added notes using Stephen to prove that Amos condemned music and that the TEMPLE was not what God promised David.

Note: Thursday 10:52. I have just listened to Ricks SHOUTHING MATCH with Scripture on his proof-text demanding that God not only PERMITTED what he calls INSTRUMENTAL PRAISE but that he COMMANDED it. He uses all of the usual proof text out of context. He uses all of the isolated verses right out of the handbook by any of the music defenders from the CHRISTIAN CHURCH.  He claims that he has read all of the books by those he, like A Ralph Johnson, he tolerates those who prefere "a capella" which is NOT the meaning of Scripture but for the ANTI-instrumental heretics he really gets violent. 

By looking at the ancient literature which defines the culture IN WHICH the Word of God was revealed, we will understand what Jesus, Paul, Jude, John and others understood which the FALSE TEACHERS do not understand. Why, in the name of sanity would John point to the serpent, to Apollyon, to the locusts, to the muses, to the MOTHER OF HARLOTS, to musical performers as SORCERIERS if God did not intend for those with EYES and EARS to look where they pointed.

A Ralph Johnson Review which pretty much covers the Tom Burgess and Alfred Knowles ditto head stuf.

I can only conclude that, like most "scholars" Rick does not have a remote clue about the flow of the Old Testament. Nay, he does not grasp that the serpent in the Garden of Eden was really a Musical Enchanter.  John identifies the same SERPENT in the book of Revelation as OPHIS (or Sophist) and calls all of the PERFORMERS under the Mother of Harlots (Rev 17) Sorcerers (Rev 18).

He knows nothing of the musical idolatry at Mount Sinai FOR WHICH God slapped them with the LAW and later with kings, kingdom and pagan-like temple because, says Stephen, God turned them over to worship the starry host.  I have never heard anyone list so many passage having people PRAISE God with instruments when he does not grasp that PRAISE or HALAL means to "make a fool of self, or make self vile" which was the way people PRAISED pagan gods or drove the enemy into panic: remember that David was KING and not "worship leader." Halal then is the ROOT meaning of LUCIFER. He does not grasp that Lucifer is called the "singing and harp playing prostitute' in the garden of Eden. He has not read Isaiah and Ezekiel quoted by Jesus to identify the HYPOCRITES as "enchanting" speakers, singers and instrument players. In short, Rick has aligned himself with the LAW which was a CURSE added because of MUSICAL IDOLATRY.

THE PURPOSE DRIVING RICK:

Rick of Richland Hills Church of Christ confesses to lying to himself for 10-12 years before he could OUT his views. According to Lynn Anderson it takes bout 11 years to CONDITION the "frogs" to be able to tolerate singing during the Lord's Supper.  However, I have recorded some Ricky views from 2002--4 years ago--where he claims his AGENDA to unite with the MUSICAL paganism: "

"The Unity Imperative," and he opened with the declaration, 

"I want to see in my lifetime, our fellowship reunited,
and I intend to do all that I can to see that that happens" (p. 1).

The Church of Christ was never UNIONED with the Disciples and the Christian church did not exist for a decade after The Church of Christ refused to be "taken captive" in the Disciples false census.  While some churches met together in the same building after 1932, Alexander Campbell noted the OBSTACLE to any kind of unity in 1824 and about 1845.

Rick proves that what he means is "I want to see the ANTI-instrumental churches fold up and become Christian Churches."

Charles Spurgeon could not find a word low enough to define a "pastor" who would preach with a congregation whose views he did not support. Therefore, Rick has been at it for a decade and has publically told you what he INTENDED TO to.  You may read here for Ricks AGENDA and links to most of the "important" false teachers in the musical group. 

The Disciples tried and failed to grasp the word PSALLO for the first time in 1878. However, those who ignore earlier discussions, like Tome Burgess and all his repeaters, dig up quotes from the ancient texts to prove that psallo demands "playing a harp."  However, the texts all speak of males PLUCKING the harp to seduce a "youth minister" for pederasty. THERE IS NO OTHER MEANING IN HISTORY.

They could have seen that Paul put the "melody" in the place of the human spirit which is the only place God seeks our worship.  Further, the parallel word in Colossians 3 is GRACE.  We might assume that the word psallo never belonged in Ephesians 5 because it is never used to mean melody and Paul guided by the Spirit OF Christ had words which DID include the instrument:

meloid-ia A.singing, chanting
lur-aoidos one who sings to the lyre,
auloid-os A.one who sings to the flute
psilociitharista One who plays without singing
chorokithar-eus A.one who plays the cithara to a chorus, (Aphrodisias ZOE)
psaltes a player on the cithara, a musician, minstrel

Jesus cast out the musical minstrels 'like dung' and consigned the pipers, singers and dancers to the marketplace FROM WHICH the "psallo rope" drove the slackers to the Ekklesia for verbal instruction only.  That is because all of the singers with instruments were known as parasites.

parasitor, to play the parasite, to sponge: parasitarier, parasitando pascere ventres suos
Similar to kitharizein. See Plautus, Persa 
cĭthărīzo , āre,  kitharizô, to play on or strike the cithara, 

parasit-os , ho, A.one who eats at the table of another, and repays him with flattery and buffoonery, parasite,  . trapezês [money changers table]  

II. of priests who had their meals at the public expense,  
2.one who dines with a superior officer, Arist.Fr.551.
bômolochos [lochaô 1. properly one that lurked about the altars for the scraps that could be got there, a half-starved beggar, Luc.

2. metaph. one who would do any dirty work to get a meal, a lick-spittle, low jester, buffoon, Ar.:--as adj., bômolochon ti exeurein to invent some ribald trick, id=Ar.; of vulgar music, id=Ar.

Now, tell us that the Spirit OF Christ or Paul was so stupid that he did not know HOW to define singing AND playing in the external sense. In the HEART is a place.

I have listened to Rick Atchley's first DEFENSE of the secret decision to impose instrumental music and Sabbath worship.   It is filled with many untruths and the usual changeling-hireling psychological intimidation by making sure that if YOU object then "we" will see you as a legalistic, sectarian, ANTI-instrumental church of Christer.  He and the "Governing Council" have decided that the Holy Spirit wants them to deliberately sow discord. The members must put INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC and SABAZIANISM over family.  Furthermore, the "laity" must not question the NIKES who have clearly taken the church capive.

USING THE JERUSALEM CONFERENCE TO PROVE THAT HIS AND THE ELDERS "GUIDANCE" BY THE HOLY SPIRIT TO TWIST ALL KNOWN SCRIPTURE AND DELIBERATELY SOW DISCORD.

Appealing to the Apostolic right to make decisions but who listened to the Spirit spoken by Jesus Christ and the prophets, is proof that the twisting of all known evidence is a smoke screen to try to defend what they had decided and planned for for a decade. This really goes back to the pseudo Stone-Campbell Movement and the complicity of once-Christian colleges enabling the 'unity meetings' where they preached the same false doctrine and the "scholars" in the universities had no Biblical, historical or linguistic power to refute them.

I have listened to his first "sermon" with pain at the stabbing form of rhetoric and listed some of the ALWAYS lies and distortions of the Bible and Restoration Movement history which along with all of church history repudiated instrumental performers in the FACE of a Holy God is sinful, perverted and promoting effeminacy.  I will discuss all of the first SET-EM-UP sermon but not necessarily in order. Because all of  the EVIDENCE was hatched from viper eggs I want to look at the one instance where Rick stoops to appeal to the Bible.

This is the Jerusalem conference which he, Joe Beam and others claim gives them the authority to hear from the 'holy spirit person' and get authority to CAST OFF Jewish legalism and, at Richland Hills, cast OUT those who are still Bible literate and ethically matured.

This "apostolic authority" claim makes a mockery of perverting the Bible to justify their treachery. He might find that the Jerusalem got its authority from the Word of God and direct commandments from Jesus Christ in a face-to-face revelation.  They should grasp that Miriam is a patternism for anyone who claims revelation from God.

The Jerusalem Conference, in fact, identifies RicK and his team as the LEGALISTS and TRADITIONALISTS who are opposing well-known prophetic revelation by the Spirit OF Christ, the direct teaching of Jesus, the direct command to go to the Nations, His failure to demand circumcision for salvation, Peter's not checking penises before baptism, Peter's revelation and Paul's full-field-press preaching to the Gentiles who were declared NOT ceremonially impure just because they were Gentiles.  All were acceptable to God who "feared God and worked righteousness."

Rick Atchley forces the Levitical Warrior Musicians into the anti-type of the Holy Place when in Jerusalem they would be executed. These NOISE makers were under the KING and COMMANDERS OF THE ARMY. They served--meaning hard bondage--the priests as they sacrificed tens of thousands of types of Jesus Christ and gainingNO assurance.  Because the Law of Moses and the Monarch was God turning Israel over to WORSHIP THE STARRY HOST (Stephen, Acts 7, etc., etc.).  God warned that the kings would DESTROY THEM and one of the curses would be the GOVERING COUNCIL like Ricks, taking the tithe and taking the young boys to make instruments of chariots (musical) to run before the "oriental potentate's" chariot.

Simeon defines the Qahal, synagogue or church in the wildernes where Moses was preached each Sabbath--even among the Gentiles--by READING the Word of God as the Holy Convocation for many first days and all sevent days to REST, read and rehearse the Word of God.  Rick Atchley DISOBEYS that direct approval which is in his PROOF TEXT for that which Simeon has just proven OUTLAWED if anyone need to be made aware.

Circumcision was a NATIONAL sign of for the Israelites ONLY.  The direct command to SPEAK which excludes music was for everyone until Jesus returns because church is NOTHING LIKE what Rick has fabricated. Church as all of the Bible, history and the demands of the Restoration Movement A School of the Bible.  Literates don't need to be told to sit down and shut up when Jesus followed the only PATTERNISM by standing up to READ and then decently sitting down.

There were no new DECISION MADE which gives Rick and the Governing Council authority to radicaly violate the BIBLE, all known church history and the ABSOLUTE LAW against sowing discord and offending people JUST to prove power.

Not even the Jerusalem council had more power than Richland's SECRET meetings. They just had this here impulse, checked their "bible" and sure enough, nothing to contradict their impulse:

There are several LEGALISTIC PATTERNISM the false teachers love to use: one of them is the Jerusalem conference to give the PREACHER (the apostle in the missional church) and the ELDERS the SAME authority the ONLY Apostles and SENIOR MALES all of whom had been chosen by  Jesus or Elders qualified. They were not DECIDING to change old ANTI-instrumental traditionalism but to INFORM those who brought up the DISCORD that Paul (chosen by Christ) was CORRECT.

They knew that because the literates knew that

1. Prophecy showed that Messiah was for ALL NATIONS.
2. The personal DIRECT COMMAND of Jesus proved it.
3. The example of Peter and Paul confirmed that they had been informed.
4. Finally, Jesus did not COMMAND circumcision which was ONLY to the Israelites</font>

Peter laid out the conditions for salvation at Pentecost and it did not include a penis inspection.

Therefore, Atchley is using the examples of the TROUBLERS IN ZION to justify His OWN troubling in Texas. Assuredly, God is good in that He always MARKS FALSE TEACHERS.

When he slanders with the use of ANTI-instrumental churches of Christ is a PLANNED PLOY of the change agents. By identifying any objectors as ANTI-instrumentalists he uses the old INTIMIDATION which they ALL use with no shame. Rick's association between ANTI-instrumentalists and legalistic BACKWARD BLACKS is NOT pretty.  Jack Evans speaks of the new Coonskins movement. I love it.

The churches of Christ along with ALL CHURCH history for most of the time are doing what they are COMMANDED TO do.

Ricky and the elders are the RUMP DISCORDERS.

Rick is using the same mantra I have read many times and I betcha it was COPIED because no honest Bible student could get AUTHORITY to tromp on the members of the church by simply READING.  And I am not sure how He gets by with blaspheming the Spirit of Christ.

I DID hear some outburst but Ricky wants everyone CIVIL and bend over like they tried on Jesus.  He got his Biblical lies from Farmer's Branch and his PSYCHOLOGICAL SET UP from Joe Beam and others:

Joe Beam Etal: "Now James says, 'Let's compare what's happening to the Bible. Let's see if this that's happening is in contradiction to the word or in harmony to the word.' Now, when they look at it they find that what is happening is not in contradiction to the word but is in harmony to the word and they're now trying to make a decision what they should do....

'It is my judgment therefore that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God.... Then the apostles and elders with the whole church decided to choose some of their own men and send them back to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. Now, they write a letter ... and in verse 28 they say this in the letter: 'It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements ...

This is our judgment.' And when they came together in that judgment, they say it is good to the Holy Spirit.
Now, if you read that, they just ascribed their decision to the Holy Spirit. They gave him the credit for what they decided. (Joe Beam, The Holy Spirit, Nashville Jubilee, 1996, Tape 2).

Now, THAT is what Rick and the Elders have done: they have DECIDED contrary to the Holy Spirit's direct command and CLAIMED that the Holy Spirit GUIDED them into violating DIRECT COMMANDS and going TERMINAL by somewhat boasting about BUSTING UP FAMILES and hurting OLD PEOPLE who know the BIBLE.  I believe that is the REVERS of the BLASPHEM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT and I say that it is.

There you have it: you get an impulse to write a book or SOW DISCORD. You check and find that there is no legalistic command which says, "Thou shalt not DELIVERATELY SOW DISCORD and violate DIRECT COMMANDS and ADD." Therefore, "it seems good to me, the SENIOR PASTOR to the Holy Spirit that I can claim direct inspiration to say as as others have said, less SUBTILLY: ''Get OVER it or get OUT."

I think that the Holy Spirit spoke to them (since they were literate) through Leviticus 17 and 18 for Gentiles living among the Israelites. Remember that the prophets were guided by God:

But, we know that the Spirit was not a little fella small enough to fit into Ricky's head: it was the SPIRIT of Christ which HAS SPOKEN in the Old and New Testament: to need a LATTER DAY REVELATION is to blaspheme the Holy Spirit by declaring that Jesus Christ was NOT COMPETENT to ordain the EKKLESIA (school of the Bible) able to be TRANSMORGAFIED into a "theater for unholy entertainment" for the Mother of Harlots in Revelation 18 which defines the speakers, singers and musicians as SORCERERS.

Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who PROPHESIED of the grace that should come unto you: 1 Pet 1:10
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. 1 Pet 1:11

There is NO decision between ANTI-instrumentalism and MUSICAL SORCERY.  There is NO TRADITIONALISM: the Jews ONLY were commanded to be circumcised and THEREFORE the LEGALISTIC PATTERNISM is a big fat lie.  It is a case of RICK as the TROUBLER and LEGALIST (music IS so defined as WORK) who wants to REVERSE the role.

Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. Acts 15:14
And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, Acts 15: 15

After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: Acts 15: 16
That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things. Acts 15: 17
Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. Acts 15: 18

Now, even Solomon grasped that "God is not worshipped in housed built for human hands." Therefore, the temple was not for worship: in fact the Temple dedication 'music" marked God "going into exile" and removing access to God, the Word and Grace under the Mercy Seat.

Stephen got killed in part for teaching:

God promised David a TABERNACLE or TENT.
But, Solomon built God a HOUSE
But, God does not dwell in houses built by human hands.

What God rebuilt is the Tabernacle of the "spiritual" David which is the church which has no central sanctuary, not sacrifices and by definition no sacrificial noise which is never called music. If you use the sacrificial system as an approach to God you must return to Jerusalem and all of the singers and priests must be out of Levi.  But, the Church of Christ was not founded by one out of Levi and you cannot restore the cursed system of slaughtering innocent "types" of your god.

As for as the Conference is concerned, does any LITERATE person see ANY reason for the Circumcision to NEED a supernatural ACT of the Spirit Person to make decisions the Spirit OF Christ had already made? No. There is NO decision to be made: all we have to do is to tell Ricky and the WORLD that HE and the elders are trying to impose Levitical Warrior Musicians and SACRIFICIAL NOISE which had ratonale ONLY in Canaan, ONLY in Jerusalem, ONLY outside the TEMPLE. And not in the vilest pagan temple could singers and musicians enter into the Holy Places of which the temple was a TYPE of the body or church of Christ.

Simon being Biblically literate got his message from the SPIRIT OF CHRIST when He read and KNEW the prophets and he had heard it directly from Jesus Christ.  The NAME of the "another Comforter" says John is "Jesus Christ the Righteous."  How DARE those John Calvin calls FANATICS claim that they have been GUIDED into FURTHER TRUTH.  This again is PSYCHOLOGICAL INTIMITATION: If you question the elders (meaning the PASTOR) then you are questioning the Holy Spirit and YOU DARE NOT TOUCH GOD'S ANNOINTEDS. Rick has thrown enough LAND MINES in the first PSYCHOLOGICAL SET UP to make it necessary for TRULY BRAVE MEN to TEACH him some bible 101a.

Simeon speaks what GOD had ALREADY revealed and He dare not quesiton the ESTABLISHED FACT:

Wherefore my sentence [judgment] is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: Acts 15: 19

However, Rick Atchley has decided or PASSED JUDGMENT against those who pay his wage.  He had decided that he SHOULD trouble the members EVEN if it breaks up families because THEY must put Rick's decision (wholly) AHEAD of their family.  I think his IRrationale is that the ANTI-instrumentalists are TROUBLING othere by NOT providing an instrumental CHURCH for them to use at the widow's expense.  You do remember that God promises to send STRONG DELUSIONS and that will be through STRONG DELUDERS.

Simeon's JUDGMENT is:

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. Acts 15:20

Now, if Rick can TROUBLE his enablers by adding INSTRUMENTS which are clearly marks of "the idolatry of talent" and troubling to most spirits, why is it that he cannot IMPOSE the worship of idols, defend fornication and drink blood at the Lord's Supper?  What kind of Holy Spirit revelation does Rick think they need to advise the Gentiles against immorality and offending the Jews and most others?

Simeon was an APOSTLE: Rick is not. NO decision about CIRCUMCISION was made by  the Apostles and Elders OF WHICH Rick and the Richland apostles are NOT. The ACT was to PREACH the Word as it had been delivered to them otherwise any ELDER is a WOLF and that is bad.

Those imposed CUSTOMS which were common to most NON-pagans and the Gentiles and especially the Greek World had lived up to much of the Mosaic Moral Law forever.  Why would not this TROUBLE the Gentiles.

Now, HERE is where Ricky has had a hand grenade blow up in his face because Peter calls CORRUPTERS of the Word "those who sell learning at Retail."

Now, HERE is where we have a RESTATEMENT of the DIRECT COMMAND for the Qahal, synagogue or "church in the Wilderness" where blowing instruments and 'making a joyful noise before the Lord' was OUTLAWED.  This were reserved for SPIRITUAL WARFARE to panic the enemy.  

For Moses of old time hath in every city them that PREACH him,
being READ in the synagogues every sabbath day. Acts 15: 21

Tertullian repudiating the trinity of THREE GODS shows why the Israelites and Egyptians knew the same texts:

Now in ancient times the people we call Jews bare the name of Hebrews, and so both their writings and their speech were Hebrew. But that the understanding of their books might not be wanting, this also the Jews supplied to Ptolemy; for they gave him seventy-two interpreters-men whom the philosopher Menedemus, the well-known asserter of a Providence, regarded with respect as sharing in his views.

The same account is given by Aristus. So the king left these works unlocked to all, in the Greek language. [Kaye, p. 291. See Elucidation I. Also Vol. II., p. 334.]

To this day, at the temple of Serapis, the libraries of Ptolemy are to be seen, with the identical Hebrew originals in them.
..........The Jews, too, read them publicly.
..........Under a tribute-liberty, they are in the habit of going to hear them every Sabbath.
..........Whoever gives ear will find God in them;
..........whoever takes pains to understand, will be compelled to believe.

The Greeks would understand that the Sabazianism or 'Dionysus' worship imposed on them at Mount Sinai because of musical idolatry, were the same as those at the temple of SerAPIS where Apis is the golden calf representing the Egyptian trinity.

TO BAD THAT RICHLAND DOES NOT HAVE AN ELDER WHO COULD FIND OUT WHAT IS DRIVING OUT THE YOUTH:

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in WORD in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 1 Tim 4:12Till I come, give attendance to [public] READING to exhortation, to doctrine1 Tim 4:13

Students could READ in the synagogue with the elder as OVERSEER meaning that he made sure that the text was read AS revealed. Because sermonizing was OUTLAWED for the synagogue, there was no need for theological training: in fact Jesus fired the "doctors of the Law who took away the key to knowledge.

 RICK has just heard the REAL Apostles tell him and others that churches are FAILING because of PERFORMANCE PREACHERS whom Acts 15 has JUST FIRED as Jesus fired the "doctors of the Law because they take away the key to knowledge. I suggest that if they get a faithful preacher who does EXPOSITORY TEACHING by reading the Word and like Jesus have the UNCOMMON DECENCY TO SIT DOWN, the faithful members will return and pay off the UNLAWFUL and UNGODLY debt.

Now, here is another decision ELDERS can make: they can obey Jesus and refuse to pay anyone who does not GO OUT and deliver the message. Rick missed that one too.  Nothing here about having a grand meeting to deliver the message. Huh?

Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren: Acts 15: 22

WHY did the ELDERS not get up and defend there decisions?

And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: Acts 15: 23

For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; Acts 15: 28

The Holy Ghost as the Spirit OF Christ even in the Old Testament (1 Pet 1:11; Rev 19:10) was the source: the Spirit who identified Himself as "Jesus of Nazareth" to Paul did not need to do further revealing. Even so, Rick is not an apostle although we understand the term 13th apostle and the "missional ministry" heresy assumes people to be apostles.

That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well. Acts 15: 29

Jesus promised the APOSTLES ONLY to "guide them into all truth." He did not promise this to RICK or the ELDERS in Texas. The Gentiles are to do GOOD and observe the dietary practices of those in their midst.   Now WHICH ones of these would RICK like to OBSOLETE along with CIRCUMCISON in order to ATTRACT more miscellaneous crowd looking for entertainment.

By learning the INSPIRED TEXT every Sabbath in synagogues, they were GUIDED by the Holy Spirit. This was in contrast to the Pharisees whom Rick seems DETERMINED to lump himself with along with adulterating the Word by "selling ignorance at Retail."  Here is exactly what Rick is preaching without caring whom it offends and defining the PHARISEES:

"They interpreted the Law according to its spirit;
when in the course of time a law had been outgrown or superseded by changing conditions,
they gave it a new and more acceptable meaning,
seeking scriptural support for their actions through a ramified system of hermeneutics.

It was due to this progressive tendency of the Pharisees that their interpretation of the Torah
continued to develop and has remained a living force in Judaism. 

Catholic Encyclopedia Pharisees

By quoting Isaiah and Ezekiel Jesus identified the Scribes and Pharisees as hypocrites as "performance speakers, singers and instrument players."  As well, all arousal singing and musical terms include the idea of enchantment and that is why John in Revelation 18 called them sorcerers.

No Jew was so ignorant or evil that he tried to INTRUDE an organ in a synagogue until the year 1815.  Even then, they hired a Gentile organist because PLAYING INSTRUMENTS on the Sabbath was considered WORD and therefore VIOLATED the Sabbath.

The word SPEAK in fuller resources OUTLAWS poetry or METRICAL language. The language of Cantillation used accent marks for emphasis but was NOT metrical. It was considered dishonorable to speak to a "god" in metrical language and the Jews never did.  It further outlaws music: even POETRY was spoken:

2.  poiêsis ps. mere poetry, without music, i. e. Epic poetry, opposite  Lyric. The word is ANTI-organon

orgănum  an implement, instrument, engine of any kind, Of military or architectonic engines, Of hydraulic engines, an organ, water-organ: organa hydraulica, Of a church-organ.

It includes the word ERGON pointing to "a hard piece of work" or the "shock and awe" of religious rituals called orge which were orgies.  Or the instruments do the work of warfare which defines David's use and the meaning of the instrumental Psalms.

This ORGAN was handled by Jubal who is defined fully in The Book of Enoch and others as SEDUCED by Satan to use Choirs, musical instruments, sexually-attractive clothing and jewelry.  This is said to be the CAUSE of all of the FALLS from Grace from which one could not recover.

I. Trop., an implement, instrument, 

Gen 4:21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
H8610 manipulate, figuratively to use unwarrantably:--catch, handle, (lay, take) hold (on, over), stop,  surely, surprise, take.

H8609 tâphar taw-far' A primitive root; to sew: (women that) sew (together).

This was the practice of the women prophetesses who sewed pillows as symbols of availability [like waving hands and clapping] and they were also known as sorceresses.  They "took souls captive" by making them THINK that they were flying.  Ezekiel would be a good study when you fire the unlawful preacher. I will tell some YOUTH where to read.

This is also a KEY to the concept that the women prophetessed SEWED or STITCHED words together to make songs.

H8608  tâphaph taw-faf' A primitive root; to drum, that is, play (as) on the tambourine: taber, play with timbrels.

Any of the old widows from the ANTI-instrumental group could probably tell the hireling that if JUBAL sued musical INSTRUMENTS meaning WITHOUT AUTHORITY then Ricky has to TRUMP Moses and the Spirit OF Christ.

This gave rise to the Tabret and to Topheth which became the NAME of HELL where God beats people and burns them to the beat of Lucifer's wind, string and percussion instruments.

2 Chr 34:[10]  They delivered it into the hand of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of Yahweh; and the workmen who labored in the house of Yahweh gave it to mend and repair the house; [11] even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed. [12]  The men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and [others of] the Levites, all who were skillful [scio] with instruments of music. [13]  Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set forward all who did the work in every manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.

SOME MARKS OF THE BEASTS: DOGS OR WOLVES (hidden as elders) or GOATS from the Capella

Rick Atchley is IMPOSING a BURDEN Jesus died to REMOVE and the musicians have always been the TOOLS by which the DEMAGOGUE sets forth HIS WORK. A demagogue is defined as "appeasing the people using the popular arts." The word heresy, singing and kleptomai are included in the texts.

Organon , to, ( [ergon, erdô] ) I. an implement, instrument, engine of any kind (mostly post-Aug.), Col. 3, 13, 12.--Of military or architectonic engines (whereas machina denotes one of a larger size and more complicated construction)

Ergon  [Ergô] I.work, 1. in Il. mostly of deeds of war, polemêïa erga, 3.a hard piece of work, a hard task, Il.: also, a shocking deed or act,

A. instrument, implement, tool, for making or doing a thing
3. musical instrument,

It is prophesied that ALL of the religious teknokrats would be removed along with the counters of towers (pulpits) and takers of shekels (tithes and offerings).  Anyone who missed First Corinthians 1 and then appeals to chapter 14 for WORSHIP has a seriosu blind spot which can only be removed by conversion (2 Cor 3)

Paul ALWAYS preambles the favorite worship or music passages with a repudiation:
Click for First Corinthians chapter one and the PROPHETIC background.

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

OUTLAWED:  Tektonos 3. master in any art, as in gymnastics, Pi.N.5.49; of poets, tektones sophoi (sc. epeôn) Id.P.3.113; tektones eupalamôn humnôn Cratin.70 (ap.Ar.Eq.530); tektones kômôn, i.e. the choreutai [Choral dancer], Pi.N. 3.4; t. nôdunias, i.e. a physician, Id.P.3.6; dexias cheros ergon, dikaias tektonos a true workman, A.Ag.1406.

Thalmon: inner rooms or shrines. IV. used of certain mystic shrines or chapels, sacred to Apis,

Pindar, Nemean 3[1] Queenly Muse, our mother! I entreat you, come in the sacred month of Nemea to the much-visited Dorian island of Aegina. For beside the waters of the Asopus young men are waiting, craftsmen of honey-voiced [5] victory-songs, seeking your voice. Various deeds thirst for various things; but victory in the games loves song most of all, the most auspicious attendant of garlands and of excellence. [9] Send an abundance of it, from my wisdom; [10] begin, divine daughter, an acceptable hymn to the ruler of the cloud-filled sky, and I will communicate it by the voices of those singers and by the lyre. The hymn will have a pleasant toil, to be the glory of the land where the ancient Myrmidons lived, whose marketplace, famous long ago, [15] Aristocleides, through your ordinance, did not stain with dishonor by proving himself too weak in the strenuous [17] course of the pancratium

OUTLAWED: Sophos   A. skilled in any handicraft or art, clever, mantis [musical prophesiers] this sense mostly of poets and musicians, en kitharai, Pindar as a soothsayer

Mantikê ,Mania [mainomai] ) madness, sphodra hêdonê katechousa  
II. enthusiasm, inspired frenzy, m. Dionusou para E.Ba.305 ; apo Mousôn katokôchê te kai m. Pl.Phdr. 245a ; theia m.,

OPPOSITE sôphrosunê anthrôpinê meaning having control over the sensual desires, temperate, self-controlled, moderate, chaste, sober,

Logos. The ACT of speaking is logik-os , ê, on, ( [logos] ) the organs of speech
A. of or for speaking or speech, logikê, hê, speech,

OPPOSITE to mousikê

IMPLICATED: MUSICAL PARASITES WHO WERE SODOMITES (Dogs or Wolves or Goats).  These same people piped hoping that Jesus was their anticipated Dionysus and would sing (lament, ouch) and dance the perverted initiation. Remember the Masculine Journey people? They have just changed skins.

Pindar Olympian 1 For Hieron of Syracuse Single Horse Race 476 B. C.

[1] Water is best, and gold, like a blazing fire in the night, stands out supreme of all lordly wealth. But if, my heart, you wish to sing of contests, [5] look no further for any star warmer than the sun, shining by day through the lonely sky, and let us not proclaim any contest greater than Olympia. From there glorious song enfolds the wisdom [sophos] of poets,1 so that they loudly sing [10] the son of Cronus, when they arrive at the rich and blessed hearth of Hieron, [12] 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 [As parasites]. 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

Remembering that Jesus cast out the musical minstrels meaning 'like dung' and He consigned the pipers, singers and dancers to the marketplace:

STRABO'S GEOGRAPHY. Book One notes

(61) Aristobulus says, that he saw at Taxila two sOPHISts (Ophis the serpent, wise men), both Brachmanes, the elder had his head shaved, but the younger wore his hair; both were attended by disciples.

When not otherwise engaged, they spent their time in the market-place. They are honoured as public counsellors,
and have the liberty of taking away, without payment, whatever article they like which is exposed for sale;
when any one accosts them, he pours over them oil of jessamine, in such profusion that it runs down from their eyes.
Of honey and sesamum, which is exposed for sale in large quantity, they take enough to make cakes, and are fed without expense

No role for them in the church.
Kitharai or guitarist ELEMINATED. The kithara is the instrument of Apollo or Apollyon.
No Techne or any RELIGIOUS operative: a Soothsayer.
No GlosseI:  As the organ of speech GLOSSECHARIN through the love of talking. Speak with restraint.
No MAD or MANTAS prophesier Paul identified in  Corinth.

Aristotle Politics 1341b and all the instruments that require manual skill. [hard work, legalism] And indeed there is a reasonable foundation for the story that was told by the ancients about the flute. The tale goes that Athena found a flute and threw it away. Now it is not a bad point in the story that the goddess did this out of annoyance because of the ugly distortion of her features;
        but as a matter of fact it is more likely that it was because education in flute-playing
        has no effect on the intelligence,
        whereas we attribute science and art to Athena

And since we reject professional education in the instruments and in performance  (and we count performance in competitions as professional,  for the performer does not take part in it  for his own improvement, but for his hearers'  pleasure, and that a vulgar pleasure, owing  to which we do not consider performing to be proper for free men, but somewhat menial; and indeed performers do become vulgar, since the object at which they aim is a low one, as vulgarity in the audience usually influences the music, so that it imparts to the artists  who practise it with a view to suit the audience a special kind of personality,  and also of bodily frame because of the movements required)--we must therefore give some consideration to tunes and rhythms, and to the question whether for educational purposes we must employ all the tunes and all the rhythms or make distinctions; and next, whether for those who are working at music for education we shall lay down the same regulation, or ought we to establish some other third one (inasmuch as we see that the factors in music are melody and rhythm, and it is important to notice what influence each of these has upon education), and whether we are to prefer music with a good melody or music with a good rhythm.

Strabo Geography 10.3.7

In [10.3.7] Strabo continues, "The accounts which are more remotely related, however, to the present subject, but are wrongly, on account of the identity of the names, brought into the same connection by the historians--I mean those accounts which, although they are called "Curetan History" and "History of the Curetes," just as if they were the history of those Curetes who lived in Aetolia and Acarnania, not only are different from that history, but are more like the accounts of the Satyri, Sileni, Bacchae, and Tityri;

for the Curetes (clergy or priests), like these,
are called genii or ministers of gods by those who have
handed down to us the Cretan and the Phrygian traditions,
which are interwoven with certain sacred rites,
some mystical, the others connected in part
with the rearing of the child Zeus in Crete and
inpart with the orgies in honor of the mother of the gods
which are celebrated in Phrygia and in the region of the Trojan Ida.

When Paul demanded that the SENIOR MALES lead the assembly he said and WITHOUT WRATH.  Paul to those with eyes and ears was EXCLUDING ORGE or ORGY as WRATH.  John assigns this to the Mother of Harlots (Rev 17) and calls the singers and instrument players SORCERERS  (Rev 18) who HAD deceived the whole world.

In the Babylonian Tablets and Biblical Commentary parallel to The Book of Enoch, GENUN or GENII is the composite of Jubal (who handled instruments without authority), Jabal, Tubal- Cain and Naamah the enchantress.  Because it is said that Cain (from a musical note and a lance) was OF that wicked one, scholars understood that SATAN taught the Cainites the skills to seduce people away from the Living Word and caused the FALLS

Sileni: Greek woodland gods or spirits, closely connected to the satyrs. They were occasionally referred to as being half-man half-horse, in stead of half-man half-goat. The Sileni were portrayed as lechers and drunkards [new winskinners], bald-headed and pot-bellied, with thick lips and stub noses, and with the tails and ears of a horse.
        The flute and lyre are their attributes. [MARKS of the beast: the word beast used by John includes PAN]
The Sileni can often be found in the company of Dionysus. Later mentioned as only one Silenus, the tutor and companion of Dionysus.

THE SATYROI were rustic fertility Daimones (Spirits) of the wilderness and countryside. They were usually associated with the gods Dionysos, Rheia [Zoe], Gaia, Hermes and Hephaistos [Lucifer]; and were said to mate with the Nymphai in the mountains.Satyroi were depicted as animal-like men with the tail of a horse, the ears of an ass, upturned pug noses, reclining hair-lines, and erect members.

As companions of Dionysos, they were depicted draped in animal skins, drinking, dancing, playing tambourines and flutes (the instruments of the Dionysian orgy) and sporting with the Nymphai Bakkhai. They were also frequently shown in vase paintings, dancing around the goddess Gaia (Earth), rising up from the fertile earth. Other closely related Daimones included: the Panes (goat-legged satyroi), and the Seilenoi (elderly satyroi). Child satyrs were known as Satyriskoi.

Dionysus was in fact from Egypt and the rising up to PLAY or SPORT in musical idolatry at Mount Sinai lost them GRACE and they were turned over or abandoned to worship the starry host.

OUTLAWED: Musical performance as Works-Focused LEGALISM.

Strabo Geography 10.3.16

Of the rites of Dionysus condemned by Paul in First Corinthians and the wine drinking musical worship in Ephesus proving that INSTRUMENTS are MACHINES for doing hard work to worship the demons.  Remembering that Zeus and Dionysus were part of the Abomination of Desolation in the Temple and that the clergy were more attracted to Dionysus than Jehovah because they were mostly KENITES or CAINITES and not Israelites.

Also resembling these rites are the Cotytian and the Bendideian rites practiced among the Thracians, among whom the Orphic rites had their beginning. Now the Cotys who is worshipped among the Edonians, and also the instruments used in her rites, are mentioned by Aeschylus; for he says,

O adorable Cotys among the Edonians, and ye who hold mountain-ranging instruments;

And he mentions immediately afterwards the attendants of Dionysus: one, holding in his hands the bombyces (reed flute),toilsome work of the turner's chisel, fills full the fingered melody, the call that brings on frenzy, while another causes to resound the bronze-bound cotylae. (cupped cymbals or vases)  "and again, stringed instruments raise their shrill cry, and frightful mimickers from some place unseen bellow like bulls,and the semblance of drums, as of subterranean thunder, rolls along, a terrifying sound.

Note:In connection with this bold use of "semblance" (eikôn) by Aeschylus, note Strabo's studied use of "resembles" (eoike, twice in this paragraph) and "unlikely" (apeikos). Others either translate eikôn "echo," or omit the thought.

The sounding brass (echoing) in First Corinthians thirteen was a Greek military instrument or hollow vase. It is directly related to the Chaldean which is a synonymn for astrologer. It was used like the familiar spirit or "old wineskin" of the witch of Endor to call up a ghost from the subterranean world. By whispering and murmuring into the skin the client heard mysterous sounds which were interpreted as from the gods. At the same time, it was used as a musical instrument or weapon to try to panic the enmy with the noise.

OUTLAWED: by the Bible and most historical scholars and founders of denominations. SPEAK where the Bible speaks and be silent when the Bible NEVER sings.

Eph 5: [19]WEB loquentes vobismet ipsis in psalmis et hymnis et canticis spiritalibus cantantes et psallentes in cordibus vestris Domino

Loquor  [Sanscr. lap-, to talk, whisper; to speak, talk, say (in the lang. of common life, in the tone of conversation; cf. Quint. 9, 4, 10; 11, 3, 45). indicate or express clearly:  By definition that EXCLUDES singing.

Logos. The ACT of speaking is logik-os , ê, on, ( [logos] ) the organs of speech
A. of or for speaking or speech, logikê, hê,
        speech,
        opposite to mousikê, 

Reprobate or CAST away is Adokim-os disreputable, mousa

OUTLAWED: Musica mousika, the art of music, music; acc. to the notions of the ancients, comic and dramatic poetry, temporibus tantum

Same as: Magice- , e-s, f., = magika (sc. techna), the magic art, magic, sorcery medicinam [dico magicenque, magices factio

ALL SPEAK words specificially EXCLUDE poetry and music--the Bible was not metrical or tuneful--just as literacy 101aa might suspect:

Psilos

IV. logos ps. bare language, i. e. prose, OPPOSITE to poetry which is clothed in the garb of metre,
2. poiêsis ps. mere poetry, without music, i. e. Epic poetry, OPPOSITE Lyric, phônê the ordinary sound of the voice, OPPOSITE singing ( [hê ôidikê] ),

Therefore, as all pagan music and PRAISE SINGING makes absolute is THE definition of LEGALISTIC.  The word NOMOS or feed the LAW was the practice of the MUSES who worshipped Apollo or Apollyon who has landed in Texas.

OUTLAWED: Hypocrites (Jesus marks rhetoricians, singers, instrumentalists)
                         Sectarians or Heretics.

John Locke defines sectarianism and heresy this:

Nor does it signify anything for them to say that their confessions and symbols
are agreeable to Scripture and to the analogy of faith;
    for if they be conceived in the express words of Scripture,
    there can be no question about them, because those things are
    acknowledged by all Christians to be of divine inspiration and therefore fundamental.

All historical scholars defend the concept of Commands, Examples and Inferences. The church as school of the Bible is defined simply by Paul in Romans 15. To that Jesus instituted, Paul defined and the church practiced the Lord's Supper on the FIRST DAY of the Week.  As the SABBATH was a MARK between the pagan worshipers and the Israelites who RESTED in their homes or local gatherings, the LORD'S DAY is a mark between those who enjoy the REST of Jesus Christ without imposing the WORKS of music which were OUTLAWED even under the Law of Moses.

Well, perhaps the Holy Spirit gave them credit for what He decided. There wasn't a "wee, little person" sitting on their shoulders. Rather, they had the mind of Christ in their mind which Jesus promised to them as His Spiritual presence (Jn 14:18 which you will not find quoted on any book on the Holy Spirit person.)

It SEEMS like the ANTI-instrumentalists have LITERACY on their side after all.  However, once you decide to destroy friendships and families I am certain that the DRIVEN PURPOSE is not a HOLY spirit.

This firest SERMON is filled with many lies and what I see as PSYCHOLOGICALLY VIOLENT warnes that NO ONE should tamper with God's ANNOINTEDS.  Fact is, elders have the authority to "teach that which has been taught" and people OBEY by listening to what THEY (and not preachers) READ and exhort for the BIBLE and 'watch the outcome of their lives.'  This warning has all of the earmarks of a cult and I suspect that MOST are too timid to object.  This is YOUR test: We already KNOW that Jesus ejected the "doctors of the Law" and CAST OUT the musical minstrels LIKE DUNG.

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