Wineskins: Mike Cope Highland Church of Christ

Breaking Walls: "But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs." That's how walls get broken down. Mike Cope and Highland Church of Christ endorsing new wineskins, Walk to Emmaus, Promise Keepers, Bible Study Fellowship and apparently gleefully the demise of conservative churches.

The LONG PRAYER looking for the will of God to USE WOMEN means that it takes a long time to FORCE weak elders to give in and concede that they have lost control. This really could matter less: there is no way that a mega church so far removed from the Word of God can do anything but continue to EMASCULATE your children under what was always seen as EFFEMINATE worship in both SPEAKING and MUSIC.

See the meaning of Women Taking over the Ekklesia The women grow long beards and the men grow short skirts.
See how they lie about Miriam.
See how they lie about Deborah

See Rubel Shelly's take on Deborah
See Deborah and Jael. Wanna spike driven in your trusting, sleeping head?

See how they lie about Huldah
Richland Hills Church of Christ and the Deaconess
Ezekiel 13 - Women in Ministry - Rubel Shelly
1 Timothy 3:11 - Deaconesses

What can you do? First, you should understand that the notion of the TITHE is a lie. Like the Jubilee concept it repudiates the Atonement of Jesus Christ and tries to get you to see that church, buildings, rituals and priesthood is a RESTORATION of the Law of Moses which is still in effect. There is no AUTHORITY for paying false teachers to take away your church and deliberately sow discord based on God blinding their eyes.

Secondly, you must grasp that THE LAW OF GIVING is a very big lie. You OWE a mega "church plant" absolutely not even the widow's mite. Remember that Jesus praised the widow for giving her ALL but because the "preachers and elders" took it He let their "buildings and grounds" be destroyed for the third time and they probably ATE their children until they starved to death. They are still EATING UP the Widow's living.

The GOSPEL means that Jesus paid it all and NONE do you owe to a pagan worship center. Click here to see that they lie about the Bible and ALL of church history. If you give them another penny I assure you that God will not bless you.

Mike Cope: He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."

That "something is actually a Someone: our God, who in Jesus Christ has proven himself an enemy of dividing walls (Ephesians 2:14).

Let the walls come down! 

For there is no fear that any man should merit exile,
if he be kept safe therein by its protecting walls.

But any man that may no longer wish to dwell there,
does equally
no longer deserve to be there.

Here is the product of Journals and Universities gone Post-Modern (Post Biblical) as Universities tend to do.

Madison Church of Christ Concerned Members Forum

Madison Church of Christ: Musical Seed Sown, Thistles of Discord Reaped as Planned.

See how Godly Deacons Draw A line in the MUCK. 

The thesis of this article is that according to Mike Cope God is performing a divine service by breaking down the walls between all "denominations." The anti-thesis is that God universally warns that when the walls come tumbling down He might be involved by letting the "wild beasts" into the vineyard which has drowned itself in a shrinking supply of new wine to the tune of instrumental music. (Isaiah 5). Click for a Pre- Mike Cope Version

Notes From Florida Christian Convention/National Missionary Convention 1985

"A round of applause awaits the convention speaker who will announce that we are saved by Jesus, not doctrine. Brotherhood scholars

impressed by German theology
are throwing up a wall between Jesus and doctrine.

"This one-eyed theology is catchy; it breathes rhetorical authority. By design it eases the force of doctrine, mitigates the raw authority of Scripture, accredits human testimony, and expands the range of union. But it won't work. Jesus does not descend in euphoric mystery; He comes clothed in the Apostles' Doctrine and swells in our hearts by faith....

"The Sissification of the Church. The universal trend is for Church to surrender to culture, and our culture is a sissified one. That's the word, not feminine. Modern so-called feminism is not feminine; it is little more than broken womanhood crying out for identity and significance.

"As a culture removes itself from God, its masculine virtue fades and a twisted femaleness takes over.

"That's why homosexuality is the end of the line in the mind of God. Good men become bad men, but when men stop being men and women stop being women, the creation image is destroyed and all is lost. Ours is a country that can barely, if at all, bring itself to execute its child murderers; it doesn't have the nerve to defend its legitimate international interests. It divinizes poverty and failure while it denigrates successful competence.

It has no future but limp-wristed oblivion.
The real world is not the place for sissified men, societies,
or churches.

"The modern Church is being sissified. It whispers repentance and shouts forgiveness. Permissiveness reigns falsely in the name of grace. Church discipline? Since when? The modern Church appears to believe that patience is the only virtue. It remembers to sing but forgets to spank. The church that cannot work up the nerve to excommunicate its pro-abortion people, its life-destroying gossips, or its womanizing deacons, is hardly tough enough to threaten Satan's world system. The sissified Church has an astounding toleration for false doctrine.

"The Sissified Church wants to do formally what it has done actually in hundreds of congregations--turn over leadership to the women. This is a dreadful offense to godly women and a threat to their dynamic, legitimate ministries. Weak men want to escape the responsibility that God has given them in the church and in the home; women who are the product of third generation matriarchies have no idea how to be in submission to any man, husband in the home or elder in the church.

Few local congregations attract what natural male leadership is available;

true masculinity cannot stomach the saccharin unreality that oozes from the pulpit and glows in the assembly. Written in 1985 by Roger R. Chambers

Adolf Hitler noted that the leaders of such a society or, in his words community, create a force of effeminate, unquestioning "human material" but in the end they will not have the manly courage to continue the fight. And so it will sink into localized groups of self-seeking people unable to muster the courage or energy to continue the fight beyond the "cell."

This is not a novel. It is a collection of events which show the danger of "breaking down the walls." On the contrary, we cannot find God suggesting that the "little flock" tear down the fences to the masses who are wolves.


Cyrus Breaking Down Walls

Heredotus wrote:

Inheriting from his father a war with the Milesians,

he pressed the siege against the city by attacking it in the following manner.
When the
harvest was ripe on the ground he marched his army into Milesia to the sound of pipes and harps, and flutes masculine and feminine.

The buildings that were scattered over the country he neither pulled down nor burnt, nor did he even tear away the doors, but left them standing as they were.

He cut down, however, and utterly destroyed all the trees and all the corn throughout the land, and then returned to his own dominions.

And of Cyrus:

Cyrus listened attentively to their proposals, and answered them by a fable.

"There was a certain piper," he said, "who was walking one day by the seaside, when he espied some fish;

so he began to pipe to them, imagining they would come out to him upon the land.
But as he found at last that his hope was vain,
he took a net, and enclosing a great draught of fishes, drew them ashore.

The fish then began to leap and dance; but the piper said,

'Cease your dancing now, as you did not choose to come and dance when I piped to you.'" [When Jesus refused to come when the Jews piped they had Him murdered]

Cyrus gave this answer to the Ionians and Aeolians,

because, when he urged them by his messengers to revolt from Croesus, they refused; but now, when his work was done, they came to offer their allegiance. It was in anger, therefore, that he made them this reply.

The Ionians, on hearing it, set to work to fortify their towns, and held meetings at the Panionium

The following is the way in which the loss of Smyrna happened. Certain men of Colophon had been engaged in a sedition there, and being the weaker party, were driven by the others into banishment.

The Smyrnaeans received the fugitives, who, after a time, watching their opportunity,
while the inhabitants were celebrating a
feast to Bacchus (new wine) outside the walls, shut to the gates, and so got possession of the town.
The
Aeolians of the other States came to their aid, and terms were agreed on between the parties, the Ionians consenting to give up all the moveables, and the Aeolians making a surrender of the place.
The
expelled Smyrnaeans were distributed among the other States of the Aeolians, and were everywhere admitted to citizenship.

Look at that again:

The fugitives from Colophon sought "fellowship" witht the Smyrnaeans.
The Smyrnaeans worshiped Bacchus
OUTSIDE THE WALLS

With Bacchus or Dionysus worship

While they were busy the fugitives LOCKED THEM OUT.
The Smyrnaeans were
scattered among other groups.

We know of new wineskiners who pulled this trick in Seattle.

Heredotus also notes that: The Babylonians, encamped without their walls, awaited his coming. A battle was fought at a short distance from the city, in which the Babylonians were defeated by the Persian king,

whereupon they withdrew within their defences.
Here they shut themselves up, and
made light of his siege, having laid in a store of provisions for many years in preparation against this attack;

for when they saw Cyrus conquering nation after nation, they were convinced that he would never stop, and that their turn would come at last.

Cyrus was now reduced to great perplexity, as time went on and he made no progress against the place. In this distress either some one made the suggestion to him, or he bethought himself of a plan, which he proceeded to put in execution.

He placed a portion of his army at the point where the river enters the city,
and another body at the back of the place where it
issues forth,

with orders to march into the town by the bed of the stream, as soon as the water became shallow enough:

[Cuttting of the "water" supply is symbolic of cutting off the Words of Christ. See the Odes of Solomon
And the
Odes of Solomon falsely used to defend instrumental music.
And how this is replaced by a
New Wineskin and comments by Jesus]

he then himself drew off with the unwarlike portion of his host, and made for the place where Nitocris dug the basin for the river, where he did exactly what she had done formerly:

he turned the Euphrates [the water of the word] by a canal into the basin, which was then a marsh, on which the river sank to such an extent that the natural bed of the stream became fordable.

Hereupon the Persians who had been left for the purpose at Babylon by the, river-side, entered the stream, which had now sunk so as to reach about midway up a man's thigh, and thus got into the town.

Had the Babylonians been apprised of what Cyrus was about, or had they noticed their danger, they would never have allowed the Persians to enter the city,
but would have destroyed them utterly; for they would have
made fast all the street-gates which gave upon the river,

and mounting upon the walls along both sides of the stream,
would so have caught the enemy, as it were,
in a trap.

But, as it was, the Persians came upon them by surprise and so took the city. Owing to the vast size of the place, the inhabitants of the central parts (as the residents at Babylon declare) long after the outer portions of the town were taken,

knew nothing of what had chanced,
but as they were
engaged in a festival, continued dancing and revelling until they learnt the capture but too certainly. Such, then, were the circumstances of the first taking of Babylon.

Parciy (h6542) par-see'; patrial from 6536; a Parsite I. e. Persian), or inhab. of Peres: - Persian.

Persian is derived from Parac (h6536) paw-ras'; a prim. root; to break in pieces, i. e. (usually without violence) to split, distribute: - deal, divide, have hoofs, part, tear.

In First Maccabees

From them came forth a sinful root, Antiochus Epiphanes, son of Antiochus the king; he had been a hostage in Rome. He began to reign in the one hundred and thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks. 1 Macc 1:10 -

In those days lawless men came forth from Israel, and misled many, saying, "Let us go and make a covenant with the Gentiles round about us, for since we separated from them many evils have come upon us." 1 Macc 1: 11 -
........... This proposal pleased them, 1 Macc 1: 12 -
and some of the people eagerly went to the king. He
authorized them to observe the ordinances of the Gentiles. 1 Macc 1: 13 -

So they built a gymnasium in Jerusalem, according to Gentile custom, 1 Macc 1: 14 -

and removed the marks of circumcision, and abandoned the holy covenant. They joined with the Gentiles and sold themselves to do evil. 1 Macc 1: 15 -

He plundered the city, burned it with fire, and tore down its houses and its surrounding walls. 1 Macc 1:31 -

But the sons of Jambri from Medeba came out and seized John and all that he had, and departed with it. 1 Macc 9:36 -
After these things it was reported to Jonathan and Simon his brother,

"The sons of Jambri are celebrating a great wedding, and are conducting the bride, a daughter of one of the great nobles of Canaan, from Nadabath with a large escort." 1 Macc 9: 37 -

And they remembered the blood of John their brother, and went up and hid under cover of the mountain. 1 Macc 9: 38 -
They raised their eyes and looked,

and saw a tumultuous procession with much baggage; and the bridegroom came out with his friends and his brothers
........... to meet them with tambourines and musicians and many weapons. 1 Macc 9: 39 -

Then they rushed upon them from the ambush and began killing them. Many were wounded and fell, and the rest fled to the mountain; and they took all their goods. 1 Macc 9: 40 -

Thus the wedding was turned into mourning and the voice of their musicians into a funeral dirge. 1 Macc 9: 41 -


To better understand some of the views of Mike Cope -- which would get him fired from most denominational churches -- Click to Read E. Claude Gardner

Was Mary another sexually questionable woman?

Sorry! But, like instrumental music, as men break down the walls, the evidence against it mounts and mounts and mounts as music grows and -- totally consistent -- male leadership wants to break down more walls. So, consider what follows as a repository of God and men speaking against breaking down the walls which God has constructed.


The Coonie was a Rock Hare

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Our commentary in Blue:

Cope begins:

"Something there is that doesn,t love a wall, wrote Robert Frost. It seemed to him that something in nature voted "NO to the erection of dividing walls.

He could observe the way, every year, the ground would swell so the carefully stacked rocks tumbled over:

Something there is that doesn,t love a wall
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast..

The problem was that his neighbor, following an old proverb of his father, beleived that "good fences make good neighbors. They make sure boundaries are clearly defined. No amount of reasoning and experience could convince him otherwise.

It was his wall, his choice, wasn't it?

Now, for the true context:

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it
And spills the upper boulder in the sun,
And make gaps even two can pass abreast.
 
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
 
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there,

In the rush for "topics" the order of truth often gets turned on its head perhaps without knowing that without fidelity to anyone's word there simply is no "point." Robert Frost is usually beyond the immediate reach of those demanded to "test the spirits" but not beyond the reach of God Who listens carefully as much to what we say as what we do.

Robert Frost didn't leave the hunters out:

"But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs."

And his motive against the wall-defending neighbor was pure mischief! Is there a message here? If we use Biblical and historical figurative speech we can hear the message loud and clear:

Why have walls, Frosts teases us, when men break down the walls just to expose the rabbit (the unclean) just for the joy of the yelping dogs (the perverse).

Looking for proof-texts from Robert Frost rather than Lord Jesus gives us the authority -- the demand -- to allegorize Frost to show how closely his "parable" describes the post-modern (post-Bible, post-Paul) motives for breaking down the walls: just to please the unclean, the yelping dogs, and too often just for mischief. While this undoubtedly was not the intent, figurative speech can get you into a heap of trouble.

Accepting the challenge of Frost as authority to "break down the walls" we certainly do not intend to indict anyone, but satisfying and breaking down the walls and "yelping dogs" to get at the rabbits is too rich to pass up for any one who knows "Bible and Broken Walls 101aaa":


The Hunter:

Of Nimrod:

He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; that is why it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before (against) the LORD." Genesis 10:9

Nimrod believed that he could regenerate through external means. And, he had a band of female musicians making his path straight. Nimrod was the traditional builder of the tower of Babel. He collected all of the people's animals and put them into his own walls where he could sell them.

Click to see Music and the worship in Babylon by priests, soothsayers, prophetesses and prostitutes (male and female).

Click to see Nimrod and His Female Musical Worship Teams

The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country,
while Jacob was a quiet man, staying among the tents. Ge.25:27

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler. Pr.6:5

Hunters in Hebrew:

Cayid (h6718) tsah'-yid; from a form of 6679 and mean. the same; the chase; also game (thus taken); (gen.) lunch (espec. for a journey): - catcheth, food, * hunter, (that which he took in) hunting, venison, victuals.

Cuwd (h6679) tsood; a prim. root; to lie alongside (i. e. in wait); by impl. to catch an animal (figurative: men); (denom. from. 6718) to victual (for a journey): - chase, hunt, sore, take (provision).

And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust. Lev 17:13

For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life. Proverb 6:26

Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. Jeremiah 16:16

For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes. Jeremiah 16:17

I will repay them double for their wickedness and their sin, because they have defiled my land with the lifeless forms of their vile images and have filled my inheritance with their detestable idols." Jeremiah 16:18

Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms,

and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly. Eze.13:20

Click to see the Pagan Practice of Growing Wings. Lucian of Samosata wrote of Lucian the Oracle Monger and his Seeker Center much like that of Apollo (Apollyon, Abbadon) at Delphi.

A lifeless form or a carcass in the form of a vile image image has a clear musical connection much like the "empty wineskin" of the witch of Endor:

Nebelah (h5038) neb-ay-law'; from 5034; a flabby thing, i. e. a carcase or carrion (human or bestial, often collect.); fig. an idol: - (dead) body, (dead) carcase, dead of itself, which died, (beast) that (which) dieth of itself.

Nebel (h5035) neh'-bel; from 5034; a skin- bag for liquids (from collapsing when empty); hence a vase (as similar in shape when full); also a lyre (as having a body of like form): - bottle, pitcher, psaltery, vessel, viol

Nabel (h5034) naw-bale'; a prim. root; to wilt; gen. to fall away, fail, faint; fig. to be foolish or (mor.) wicked; causat. to despise, disgrace: - disgrace, dishonour, lightly esteem, fade (away, - ing), fall (down, -ling, off), do foolishly, come to nought, * surely, make vile, wither..

Even in the case of lifeless things (inanimate, without breath, mechanical) that make sounds, such as the flute or harp, how will anyone know what tune is being played unless there is a distinction in the notes? 1 Corinthians 14:7NIV


The rabbit or hare was a ceremonially unclean animal (Deut 14:7; Lev 11:6)

Even today we hear news of pretty bunnies spreading a deadly disease so that gardners have to wear a face mask just to mow the lawn! Of course, the rabbit is famous for its sexual power.

"Rabbits are of considerable economic importance. They form the bulk of the diet of many animal predators, and they are the most widely hunted small game (by humans) wherever they occur.

They can also carry and transmit to humans such diseases as tularemia (acute infectious disease resembling plague), or rabbit fever, however, and in some areas they become serious pests, destroying crops or grazing lands (Britannica)

"Whether they were the Burmese boy-priests of the temples, as also found in Ceylon, Malaysia, Japan, and among the mainland Chinese Buddhist monks, they were the educators and keepers of the sacred flame of "neitherness." The Fujian Province of old China worshipped a patron rabbit god of homosexuality similar to the North American trickster, HARE, and they maintained organized cult activities in the service of same-sex religion. Japanese mythology suggests that the great cultural hero Kobo Daishi, founder of the Singon sect of Buddhism, was himself a queer."

Jude quotes Enoch to warn that God will come with ten thousand of His saints to execute judgment. The primary sin was ignoring His Word. The result was that Satan was able to "break down the walls" by mixed-sex choirs and instrumental music. When the holy Sethites had been called down from their safety there was a general homosexual attack: Satan is ambidextrous.

In the Book of Enoch chapter 96 Enoch writes about coneys or rabbits who always have to run from the "sirens"--

1 Be hopeful, ye righteous; for suddenly shall the sinners perish before you,
And ye shall have lordship over them according to your desires.
2 And in the day of the tribulation of the sinners,
Your children shall mount and rise as eagles,
And higher than the vultures will be your nest,
And ye shall ascend and enter the crevices of the earth,
And the clefts of the rock for ever as coneys (rabbits) before the unrighteous,
And the sirens shall sigh because of you-and weep

3 Wherefore fear not, ye that have suffered;

For healing shall be your portion,
And a bright light shall enlighten you,
And the voice of rest ye shall hear from heaven.

4 Woe unto you, ye sinners, for your riches make you appear like the righteous,

But your hearts convict you of being sinners,
And this fact shall be a testimony against you for a memorial of (your) evil deeds.

5 Woe to you who devour the finest of the wheat,

And drink wine in large bowls,
And tread under foot the lowly with your might.

6 Woe to you who drink water from every fountain,

For suddenly shall ye be consumed and wither away,
Because ye have forsaken the fountain of life.

Adam Clark Amos Chapter 5, Verse 5. And invent to themselves instruments of music, like David] See the note on 1 Chron. xxiii. 5; and see especially the note on 2 Chron. xxix. 25.

I believe that David was not authorized by the Lord to introduce that multitude of musical instruments into the Divine worship of which we read,

and I am satisfied that his conduct in this respect is most solemnly reprehended by this prophet;

and I farther believe that the use of such instruments of music, in the Christian Church,
 
is without the sanction and against the will of God;
 
that they are subversive of the spirit of true devotion, and that they are sinful.

If there was a woe to them who invented instruments of music, as did David under the law, is there no wo, no curse to them who invent them, and introduce them into the worship of God in the Christian Church?

In Chapter Two Enoch wrote:

2:1 And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones

To execute judgement upon all,
And to destroy all the ungodly:
And to convict all flesh
Of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed,
And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.

In Chapter seven we understand that what was taught was taught by those the Bible calls "Jabal, Jubal, Tubal-Cain and Naamah."

God will come with ten thousand of His saints and the specific charges are:

Ignoring the Word of God because Satan taught them
.....About the power of musical instruments, mixed-sex choirs and wine.

A primary sin was caused by:
..... Abortionists.

The Second Book of Adam and Eve is more explicit. You need to read this by Clicking Here.

"It was the Cainite's punishment to have a hundred daughters borne them for each son; and this led to such husband-hunger that their women began to raid houses and carry off men. One day it pleased them to seduce them Sethites, after daubing their faces with rouge and powder, their eyes with antimony, and the soles of their feet with scarlet, dyeing their hair, putting on golden earrings, golden anklets, bracelets, and many-colored garments.

In their ascent of the holy mountain, they twanged harps, blew trumpets, beat drums, sang, danced, clapped hands; then, having addressed the five hundred and twenty anchorites in cheerful voices,
........... each caught hold of her victim and seduced him.

These Sethites, after once succumbing to the Cainite women's blandishments,
..... became more unclean than dogs, and utterly forgot God's laws.

Even the "Sons of Judges" now corrupted the daughters of the poor. Whenever a bride was beautified for the bridegroom, one such would enter the nuptial chamber and enjoy her first.

Although Genun's name suggests "Kenan," who appears in Genesis 5:9 as the son of Enoch, he is a composite Kenite character: the invention of musical instruments being attributed in Genesis to Jubal, and of edged iron blades to his brother Tubal Cain.

Genun (Jubal = yobel or trumpet = Jubilee) was said to occupy "the Land of the Slime Pits," namely the southern shores of the Dead Sea (Genesis 14:10), because the evil city of Sodom stood there

Genun the Canaanite, son of Lamech the Blind, living in the Land of the Slime Pits,

was ruled by Azael from his earliest youth,
and
invented all sorts of musical instruments.

When he played these, Azael entered into them too, so that they gave forth seductive tunes entrancing the hearts of all listeners.

Genun would assemble companies of musicians, who inflamed one another with music until their lust burned bright like fire, and they lay together promiscuously.

He also brewed beer, gathered great crowds in taverns, gave them to drink, and taught them to forge iron swords and spear-points, with which to do murder at random when they were drunk.

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall (poppy), their clusters are bitter: Deut 32:32

[Music-produced endorphins are morphine-like. Music is one of the most powerful and addictive efforts of mankind]

Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel told God that such wickedness had never before flourished on earth.

God then sent Raphael to bind Azael hand and foot, heaping jagged rocks over him in the dark Cave of Dudael, where he now abides until the Last Days. (Site of the later cult of Pan, the homosexual pipe player. )

Gabriel destroyed the Fallen Ones by inciting them to civil war. Michael chained Shemhazai and his fellows in other dark caves for seventy generations.

Uriel became the messenger of salvation who visited Noah.


Orpheus Philosophy or Wisdom rejects the Musical Muses

Boethius For if you recall your true native country, you know that it is not under the rule of the many-headed people, as was Athens of old, (Pagan Muses) but there is one Lord, one King, who rejoices in the greater number of his subjects, not in their banishment.

To be guided by his reins, to bow to his justice, is the highest liberty.
Know you not that sacred and ancient
law of your own state by which it is enacted that no man,

who would establish a dwelling-place for himself therein, may lawfully be put forth?
For there is no fear that any man should merit exile,
if he be kept safe therein by its protecting walls.

But any man that may no longer wish to dwell there,
does equally no longer deserve to be there.

Boethius in "The Consolation of Phylosophy" (as opposed of the Muses) stated that:

Plato in the Timoeus says,' The language must also be akin to the subjects of which its words are the interpreters' the chains of matter and of earth.

The singer of Thrace (Orpheus) in olden time lamented his dead wife:
..... by his tearful strains he made the trees to follow him, and bound the flowing streams to stay:

for him the hind would fearlessly go side by side with fiercest lions, and
..... the hare would look upon the hound (guardian dogs of hell),
..... nor be afraid, for he was gentle under the song's sway.

Another fierce man is always working his restless tongue at lawsuits, and you will compare him to a hound.

[The three headed dog Cerberus was associated with Apis worshiped by Israel at Mount Sinai in the form of the golden calf and with play. Play is "singing, naked dancing, playing instruments and drinking wine. They forced Samson into this play which was sodomy before he pulled down their temple. Also, David "played before the Ark" with naked dance and instrumental music.]

1. Munich 1493: Archaic; Attic Black Figure; Neck amphora; Scenes in Hades. Side A: Herakles and Kerberus. Side B: Sisyphos and small winged figures (amyetoi) pouring water into a leaky pithos. [Vase] (2.11)

Three-headed dog: This is a Greek mythology reference to CerberusÐa monstrous dog with three or 50 heads and a mane or tail of snakes who guarded the entrance to the Underworld.

Syea, we have been forsaken in the wilderness to gather grapes of thorns and figs of thistles!: From the Bible, Matthew 7:15-20. "(v. 15) Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. (v. 16) You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor figs from thistles, are they? (v. 17) Even so, every good tree bears good fruit; but the bad tree bears bad fruit. (v. 18)A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. (v. 19)Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. (v. 20) So then, you will know them by their fruits."

The worship among ALL priesthoods is likely to be perverted. Those who were dogs were male homosexuals where sodomy was thought to "bind the flesh and spirit together" recorded of Jezebel.

Beware of dogs, beware of evil (noisome) workers (teachers), beware of the concision. Phil 3:2

However, Jesus disqualified TIME and PLACE of both Samaritans and Jews. He said that because God IS Spirit we must worship in the new PLACE of our human spirit as we give heed to the Words of Truth. This is Paul's unique definition of WORSHIP and never explains what appeals to the flesh as worship: it cannot be.

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

John could have been involved with the perverted worship on Patmos influenced by Circe the holy whore with music and drugs. However, in order for Christ the Spirit to speak to Him "John was IN THE SPIRIT" on the Lord's Day.

All musical "worship" used prostitutes and catamites or male homosexuals.

"After the twelfth labour which, as you know, was the capture of the three-headed dog of the Underworld, Cerberus, King Eurystheus became overbold. If Heracles had got the better of the God Hades, why should he not now try with Zeus himself. So he called Heracles to him and said, 'This is your final task. Go and get for me Ganymede, Cup-Bearer of the Gods and the most beautiful youth that ever lived, for I want to try the pleasures of such a divine creature myself.'"

He is also associated with the serpent. The constellation of Cerberus has its origins with the astronomer Johannes Hevelius, who placed it on his star atlas Firmamentum Sobiescianum. Most representations of the constellation have it appearing as a three-headed serpent instead of a dog.

But when the hotter flame burnt up his inmost soul,
..... even the strains, which had subdued all other things,
..... could not soothe their own lord's mind.

Complaining of the hard hearts of the gods above,
..... he dared approach the realms below.

There he tuned his songs to soothing tones, and sang the lays he had drawn from his mother's fount of excellence.

His unrestrained grief did give him power, his love redoubled his grief's power:
his mourning
moved the depths of hell. With gentlest prayers he prayed to the lords of the shades for grace.

The three-headed porter was taken captive with amazement at his fresh songs. The avenging goddesses, who haunt with fear the guilty, poured out sad tears. Ixion's wheel no longer swiftly turned. Tantalus, so long abandoned unto thirst then despise the flowing stream.

Tantalus for his crimes was condemned to perpetual hunger and thirst though surrounded by fruits and water which ever eluded his grasp. The vulture, satisfied by his strains, tore not awhile at Tityos's heart. At last the lord of the shades in pity cried: "We are conquered; take your bride with you, bought by your song; but one condition binds our gift: till she has left these dark abodes, turn not your eyes upon her." Who shall set a law to lovers? Love is a greater law unto itself.

Alack! at the very bounds of darkness Orpheus looked upon his Eurydice; looked, and lost her, and was lost himself.

'To you too this tale refers; you, who seek to lead your thoughts to the light above. For whosoever is overcome of desire, and turns his gaze upon the darkness 'neath the earth, he, while he looks on hell, loses the prize he carried off.'

Orpheus praised Ceres as "Eve" or "ZOE" or "the mother of the gods" a Lucifer figure and they called her "the beast."

Now Rhea, as Ceres, in Hymn XIV, is called 'brass-sounding' and

'drum-beating'. This has reference to the mystical results of certain sounds and rhythm,
part and parcel of what the Hindus call Mantravidyâ.

I remember reading a curious old French book in the Bibliothèque de la Ville of Clermont-Ferrand, one of the books confiscated from the Minime Monastery of the same town, at the time of the Revolution. This work dealt with the magical properties of music, and described for what especial purposes the various instruments of music were used in the Temple-service of the Jews.

"Now Iamblichus (De Mysteriis, III.ix) goes into the matter of the so-called Corybantic and Bacchic 'frenzies' produced by musical instruments in the Mysteries of Ceres and Bacchus; and in his Life of Pythagoras (xxv) he, further, tells us that: 'The whole Pythagoric school went through a course of musical training, both in harmony and touch, whereby, by means of appropriate chants, they beneficially converted the dispositions of the soul to contrary emotions.

Music and Mantras, therefore, were used by the Orphics to attract, or call
down
, the influence of the Mother of the Gods, who at the same time was the
'Store-house of Life', of Divine Nature. Thus Proclus.

The problem in Rome described by Paul in Romans 14 was the Orphic, Vegetarian instrumental music sect influence trying to assemble with Dionysic, meat-eating, wine-drinking worshipers with instrumental music.

To allow "non-sectarian" worship without instruments, in Romans 15 Paul restated the Ephesian5 and Colossian 3 "speaking" which is not a primary singing command:

WE then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities (diseased scruple) of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Romans 15:1

Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification. Romans 15:2
For
even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me. Romans 15:3

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

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

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


The Yelping Dogs:

Of Jesus it was prophesied:

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

 

The Dead Sea Scroll translation of Psalm 41 For Thou, O God, hast sheltered me
from the children of men
And hast hidden Thy Law within me
against the time when Thou shoudst
reveal Thy salvation to me. (Isaiah 11:1-3)
 
All who have eaten my bread
have lifted their heel against me (cf John 13:18)
And all those joined to my Council
have mocked me with wicked lips. (Children piping and chiding.)
 
Thy members of my Covenant have rebelled
and have murmured round about me;
They have gone as talebearers
before the children of mischief
concerning the mystery which Thou hast hidden in me...
 
9
They have overtaken me in a narrow pass (gap) without escape
And there is no rest for me in my trial.
They sound my censure upon a harp
and their murmuring and storming upon a zither." Ps.41:11
 

[Now as for you, take courage and stand in the gap, do not fear when God strengthens . . . ] 17-20 [ . . ] Col. 17 land He shall appoint their retribution with burning

When the priests go out into the gap between the battle lines,
 
seven Levites shall go out with them. In their hands shall be seven trumpets of rams' horns.
Three officers from among the Levites shall walk before the priests and the Levites.
 
Then the priests shall blow on the six trumpets of the slain a sharp staccato note to direct the battle,
 
and the Levites and all the people with rams' horns shall blow a great battle alarm together in order to melt the heart of the enemy.
 
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. Psa 22:14
 
Nevertheless, In Victory:
 
18
 
I will groan with the zither of lamentation
in all grief-stricken mourning and bitter complaint
until iniquity and wickedness are consumed
and the disease-bringing scourge is no more.
 
An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more. Ps.41:8
 
Then will I play on the zither of deliverance
and harp of joy,
on the tabors of prayer and the pipe of praise
without end.

This was spoken of Judas where triumph was to "blow the wind instruments and make a joyful noise." The enemies piped to try to get Jesus into the feminine or effeminate dance of Dionysus (i.e. Pan). Dionysus was the "new wine in new wineskins god." The "bag" Judas put the stolen money into was "a bag for carrying the mouthpieces of wind instruments." Like most priesthoods, the one in Jerusalem in the days of Jesus was afflicted and inflicted with a large homosexual component. Therefore, in the Psalm:

For dogs have compassed (whirled around) me: the assembly (family or crowd) of the wicked have inclosed (surrounded to strike) me: they pierced my hands and my feet. Ps.22:16

Of compassed or danced around: Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the Lords right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory. Hab.2:16

Deliver my life from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dogs. Ps.22:20

Psalm 22 shows how the musical guys would attack Jesus in a perverted sense.

Mockers:

Sachaq (h7832) saw-khak'; a prim. root; to laugh (in pleasure or detraction); by impl. to play: - deride, have in derision, laugh, make merry, mock (-er), play, rejoice, (laugh to) scorn, be in (make) sport.

The Play at Mount Sinai was musical idolatry (h6711). This was also the SPORT they demanded of Samson. When Samson MADE SPORT the word is (h7832)

And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport (h7832). And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport (h6711): and they set him between the pillars. Judges 16:25

Cachaq (h6711) tsaw-khak'; a prim. root; to laugh outright (in merriment or scorn); by impl. to sport: - laugh, mock, play, make sport.

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 (h6711). Exod 32:6

Shachaq (h7833) shaw-khak'; a prim. root; to comminate (by trituration or attrition): - beat, wear.

Israel's watchmen are blind, they all lack knowledge; they are all mute dogs (Keleb male prostitutes), they cannot bark; they lie (The sexual connection) around and dream, they love to sleep. Is.56:10 (Mute: Like tongue-tied male prostitutes)

Yea, they are greedy (sensuous) 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

Then the LORD said to me: "Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my heart would not go out to this people.

Send them away from my presence! Let them go! Je 15:1

And if they ask you, 'Where shall we go?' tell them, 'This is what the LORD says: "'Those destined for death, to death; those for the sword, to the sword; those for starvation, to starvation; those for captivity, to captivity.' Je 15:2

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

The dogs in Hebrew were:

Keleb (h3611) keh'leb; from an unused root mean. to yelp, or else to attack; a dog;
..... hence (by euphemism) a male prostitute: - dog.

In the New Testament, the word "soft" describes them:

But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings houses. Matthew 11:8

Soft is from the Greek:

Malakos (g3120) mal-ak-os'; of uncert. affin.; soft, i.e. fine (clothing); fig. a catamite (male prostitute): - effeminate, soft. (g3119 means soft or diseased)

The "choral" dance was performed by the women worshipers of Dionysus or effeminate men. If they could get Jesus and John to dance when they piped this would prove that He was not Yahweh's presence:

"Asherah: She is the Queen of Heaven, in other languages and ages identified as Ashtoreth, Athirat, Astarte, and Ishtar.

Her "male" priestesses were known as kelabim, the faithful "dogs" of the Goddess, who practiced divinatory arts, danced in processions, and served as hierodules, qedeshim (prostitutes or concubines), in the company of other priestesses.

Elements of the goddess worship were largely erased in a cultural purge c. 630 BCE by King Josiah, at the behest of Yahweh's priests, who required supremacy."

"What wedding-hymn was that which raised its strains to the sound of Libyan flutes, to the music of the dancer's lyre, and the note of the pipe of reeds? It was on the day Pieria's lovely-haired choir came over the slopes of Pelion to the wedding of Peleus, beating the ground with print of golden sandals at the banquet of the gods, and hymning in dulcet strains the praise of Thetis and the son of Aeacus, over the Centaurs' hill, down woods of Pelion.

"There was the Dardanian boy, dainty morsel of Zeus' bed, drawing off the wine he mixed in the depths of golden bowls, Ganymede the Phrygian; while, along the gleaming sand, the fifty daughters of Nereus graced the marriage with their dancing, circling in a mazy ring. Euripides

Greek GANYMEDES, Latin GANYMEDES, OR CATAMITUS, in Greek legend, the son of Tros (or Laomedon), king of Troy. Because of his unusual beauty, he was carried off either by the gods or by Zeus, disguised as an eagle, or, according to a Cretan account, by Minos, to serve as cupbearer. In compensation, Zeus gave Ganymede's father a stud of immortal horses (or a golden vine). From early times it was believed that Ganymede's kidnapper had a homosexual passion for him, hence the term catamite, derived from the popular Latin form of his name. He was later identified with the constellation Aquarius.

"In astrology, Aquarius is the 11th sign of the zodiac, considered as governing the period c. January 20-c. February 18. "Its representation as a man pouring a stream of water out of a jug came about,

"it has been suggested, because in ancient times the rising of Aquarius coincided in the Middle East with a period of floods and rain. In the conceptual scheme of the "Great Year"--the more than 25,000 years it takes the Earth to pass in turn through the influence of each of the signs of the zodiac--
........... the Earth is said to have passed into the age of Aquarius early in the 19th century.

Is it an accident that in the nineteenth century the Word of God was minimized and the clear Biblical male-female order was reversed, and what Leonard Allen identified mudied stream of trinitarian dogma was introduced and identified by Paul Tillich as heresy. Read more about the Mission Church.

The pure water often turns to wine:

"Upon hearing that Ganymede was to be cup bearer as well as Zeus' lover, the infinitely jealous Hera was outraged. Therefor Zeus set Ganymede's image among the stars as the constellation Aquarius, the water carrier. Aquarius was originally the Egyptian god over the Nile. The Egyptian god poured water not wine from a flagon.

"All of Zeus' scandalous liaisons have allegorical meanings. Zeus' torrid affair with Ganymede was a religious justification for homosexuality within the Greek culture. Before the popularity of the Zeus and Ganymede myth spread, the only toleration for sodomy was an external form of goddess worship. Cybele's male devotees tried to achieve unity with her by castrating themselves and dressing like women.

"While Platonic love needed women for regeneration purposes (grow the attendance)
..... th