David's Like the Nation's Temple

Israel's king and temple were given to destroy the nation because of their musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. The elders FIRED God and demanded a king "like the nations" so that they could worship like the nations. This was Israel's last chance and everything in the MONARCHY was worship LIKE THE PAGAN NATIONS until it was time for God to transport them BEYOND BABYLON.

Hebrew or Greek words quoted from Strong's are not truly definitions. Rather, as the only way to understand the Old Testament these words are different ways the Hebrew is translated and used. Scholarship does not get you much closer to the meaning of words than that contained in Websters.

If a given Hebrew word is never used of anything spiritual then we can assume that the passage using it does not define something spiritual.

Sorry, folks. I am trying to sort out this NOTE BOOK to make more sense. Think of these as files into which I put whatever comes to my attention. Be warned, however, that I don't do beginnings, middles and endings: that is your job.

Don't ever believe that if the Temple was a spiritual place and God "loved music" that He would have allowed the temple to be looted within five years of Solomon's death. Nor, would He have permitted two more huge CHURCH PLANTS to be torn down stone by stone.

God doesn't live in houses and is not worshiped in groups, by music or the talent of human hands. God is SPIRIT and Jesus said that the only place God looks for worship is in the Most Holy Place of our human spirit made into A holy spirit fit for God's dwelling.

Don't let them move you back to Babylon.

We have updated our review of Farmer's Branch Church of Christ's "white paper" on the use of instrumental music. We have added a comparison of Isaiah 47 to Revelation 18 which prophesied an end-time hostile takeover by musical perversion.

See Adam Clark Annotated On Isaiah 5 as Worship of the "starry host."

See Augustine's look at Psalm 106. Tells the little known Mount Sinai Experience

NO TEMPLE by God's plan!

See John Chrysostom Homily XVII on the Temple: Law is the MARK caused by music.

See Ezekiel's Views of Mount Sinai

This is a quick study for a student needing to confirm that the temple, like the king, was God's permissive will to confiscate the people's property and children to provide glory to a LIKE THE NATION'S monarchy which has been called "Israel's failed experiment with the idolatry of nationhood." Therefore, those who appeal to the Monarchy or the monarchs or their writings as PROOF-TEXT for spiritual worship cannot be trusted as spiritual leaders or educators. We will dress up the data.

Don't get upset when we confirm that the NATIONAL rituals of the nation of Israel were derived from the Phoenicians who influenced the Babylonians bringing things like child sacrifice and music from Africa. The attacked Ancient Near East description of what was the rebuilding of the Tower of Babel to be the dwelling place and LADDER up into the presence of the gods.

"If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every part of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, then I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Him. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all battlefields besides is merely flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point." Martin Luther

We will compare the king, kingdom, temple and music of Jerusalem with a typical document of the NATION of Babylon. The temple and worship at Jerusalem was to pay for the sins of Israel's ELDERS and was QUARANTINED from the people's congregation who always met in a form of the synagogue which was a SCHOOL OF THE BIBLE.

> The eternal battle is between Satan (probably Chiun personified as Saturn whose number's 666) and religion largely influenced by females or effeminate males and music is the MARK,

And

> God's school of the Bible in the synagogues and early churches before apostasy turned them into pagan worship centers.

The end time mark is dominant, commercial forms of leadership and the urge to restore the old Babylon form of musical prostitution. Temples and Tithes are also MARKS.

Musical instruments were IDOLS or the homes of the gods. When the musician made a noise he fooled everyone by claiming that it was the gods inside doing the speaking. The MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS were awakened or aroused by David, were baptized by Catholics and used today to LEAD THE WORSHIPERS INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD.

We should note that as the Holy Place was a carnal type of the church of Christ that no Levitical Singer or Musician were permitted into the "church" whose temple symbols represent the Lord's Supper, Study of the 7 spirits of God and our personal prayers as a approach to the Most Holy Place.

Most of the most vile pagans would have found it reprehensible to bring music and musicians into the presence of their gods in the temple.

Even in Egypt when the 430 years were up, according to Ezekiel,:

Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. Ezekiel 20: 7

But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt:

then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. Ezekiel 20: 8

But I wrought for my names sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt. Ezekiel 20: 9

Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. Ezekiel 20:10

Click here for the full story told by Ezekiel.

Because of the musical idolatry at Mount Sinai God saw this as a PRAYER. He therefore turned them over to worship the starry host. Later, the elders fired God and wanted a king like the NATIONS so that they could worship like the nations. God sentenced them to worship the starry host and to be carried BEYOND Babylon.

All of the TYPES in the Law "given because of transgression" are physical and devoted to the FLESH to save people from dying for their own sins.

All of the anti-types fulfilled by Christ are SPIRITUAL in nature. God does not dwell in buildings but in the human spirit or mind as the new Holy Place. Worship is not in physical PLACE or TIME but in spirit continually.

Sacrifices are not of bulls and goats but of the fruit of our lips. Therefore, the MUSICAL NOISE to mask the horrors of animal slaughter has been replaced with singing AND melody in the heart or spirit which is the ONLY place God looks for our honoring Him by being disciples of His Word.

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

Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? Acts 7:42

Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon. Ac.7:43

The god the Israelites carried along was the god to whom God TURNED THEM OVER after their musical idolatry. God essentially "married" Israel to Satan.

Chemosh was the god of the Moabites. God says Israel had forgotten Him and was worshipping Chemosh (I Kings 11:33). Who was Chemosh? He is identified with Baal-peor -- the pagan "Christ child" -- and with Baal-zebub, Mars, and Saturn (Peloubet's Bible Dictionary, p. 115).

Saturn was one name of Nimrod, and Mars, another name as the god of war of the Greeks. Chemosh, then, was the Moabite name for Nimrod.

The Dueling Hills of Jerusalem: Made "peaceful by conquest."

Yeruwshalaim (h3389) yer-oo-shaw-lah'-im; rarely yÿruwshalayim yer-oo- shaw-lah'-yim; a duel (in allusion to its two main hills [the true pointing, at least of the former reading, seems to be that of 3390]); prob. from (the pass. part. of) 3384 and 7999; founded peaceful; Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Pal.: - Jerusalem

Yarash (h3423) yaw-rash'; or yaresh yaw-raysh'; a prim. root; to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by impl. to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish, to ruin: - cast out, consume, destroy, disinherit, dispossess, drive (-ing) out, enjoy, expel, * without fail, (give to, leave for) inherit (-ance, -or), / magistrate, be (make) poor, come to poverty, (give to, make to) possess, get (have) in (take) possession, seize upon, succeed, * utterly

John in Revelation equates Jerusalem, as opposed to the spiritual Zion, to Egypt and Sodom.

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. Is.13:19

And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. Re.11:8

I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. Jude 5

And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Jude 6

Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange (different) flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Jude 7

"Solomon went after Ashtoreth" (I Kings 11:5, 33). For a short time Israel "did put away Baal-im and Ash-ta-roth and served the Eternal only" (I Sam. 7:4), but they returned to this pagan practice (I Sam. 12:10). Please recall that Ashtaroth is just another form for the word "Ishtar" or "Easter" which the Christ-professing world observes today!

We have only a few remarks of Herodotus about Egyptian practices, which were similar to those of ancient Hebrew popular singing. He refers to the 'lament for Linos,' also to women's chants in procession of the cult of Osiris and the Diana of Bubastis. In Phonicia and Syria

almost all popular music reflected the worship of Ishtar, the goddess of fertility." (Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, p. 461, Abingdon).

See the Tammuz worship in the temple while the men bowed to Ishtar in the east.

For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 1 Kings 11:5

And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as did David his father. 1 Kings 11:6

Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab,

in the hill that is before Jerusalem,

and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon. 1 Kings 11:7

Yet the Lord testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. 2 Kings 17: 13

Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God. 2 Kings 17:14

And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain,

and went after the heathen that were round about them, (Nations, Gowy, Babylon pantheon of gods) concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them. 2 Kings 17: 15

And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king beat down, and brake them down 2 Kings 23:12

And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile. 2 Kings 23:13

Har (h2022) har; a short. form of 2042; a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used fig.): - hill (country), mount (-ain), * promotion.

Saturn (666) was his name including Nimrod and Music was his Game: and he was Mars, another name as the god of war of the Greeks. Chemosh, then, was the Moabite name for Nimrod. Nimrod founded the Musical Worship Team at the towers of Babylon.

His number as SATAN is 666.

"Manesseh also cultivated star and planetary worship (II Kings 21:3, 5) and the cult of Moloch, an Ammonite deity, whose worship was closely connected with astral divination (Amos 5:25, 26 Acts 7:41-43) and whose ritual was characterized by parents sacrificing their children by compelling them to pass through or into a furnace of fire." (Unger, Merrill, Archaeology and the Old Testament, Zondervan, P. 279)

See Augustine on Psalm 106: "An interesting reference to idolatry and Moloch worship and their connection with demonism is found in Psalm 106:36, 37. The Hebrews are said to have 'mingled themselves with the nations... learned their works and served their idols... ye they sacrificed their sons and daughters unto demons... In fact, Manasseh's idolatries were the result of a gigantic outburst of demon-energized occultism. He is said to have practed augury, and used enchantment, and dealt with them that had familiar spirits (divining demons) and with wizards (those possessed of occult knowledge because under the control of a divining demon ) (II Kings 21:6; II Chron. 33:6)." (Unger, Merrill, Archaeology and the Old Testament, Zondervan, P. 279).

The divining demon was usually given life by the WITCH using a musical instrument called the Familiar Spirit:

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

Click to see the similar meaning of all musical instruments.

This is the meaning of leading the kiddies into CANAAN LAND with music:

And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. Psalm 106:36

Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, Psalm 106:37

And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood. Psalm 106:38

Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions. Psalm 106:39

Human Inventions always mocks God and His Word:

Ma'alal (h4611) mah-al-awl'; from 5953; an act (good or bad): - going, endeavour, invention, work.

Alal (h5953) aw-lal'; a prim. root; to effect thoroughly; spec. to glean, (also fig.); by impl. (in a bad sense) to overdo, i. e. maltreat, be saucy to, pain, impose (also lit.): - abuse, affect, * child, defile, do, glean, mock, practise, throughly, work (wonderfully).

In ancient symbolism, God married the nation of Israel to Babylonian religion even as He sentenced them to captivity beyond Babylon.

The Law of Moses replaced the Book of the Covenant and the Levites were imposed on the nation to quarantine the Temple from the common people. As in all PAGAN temples, in Jerusalem only the clergy, king and city officials composed the CONGREGATION even at the dedication of the temple. The people wer outside the camp, they prayed their own prayers to God and God heard from HEAVEN and not from the temple THROUGH the priestss.

We should not mourn this because the prophets understood that Israel had become worse than the nations in Egypt. Therefore, rather than let them self-destruc He removed them to fulfill his 430 year old prophecy.

God picked kings to carry out His sentence of captivity among the nations and eventually death.

Picking a human king and a secular kingdom caused God to remove His grace from the nation again and let them destruct. Nevertheless, there would always be a tiny drop of juice from one rotten grape off one bare cluster off one dead vine out of one vineyard whose walls God had broken down to let the BEAST people in.

And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them. 1 Samuel 8:7

According to all the works

which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt

even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee. 1 Samuel 8:8

God understood that they wanted to worship like the nations:

"What you have in your mind shall never be, when you say, 'We will be like the Gentiles, like the families in other countries, serving wood and stone.' Ezek 20:32

"It is said, in Tosaphoth, that the sin lay 'not in demanding a king, but in the mode of so doing, 'like all the nations' virtually equivalent to a wish to become like surrounding idolaters." Professor Keil finds the wrong "In... nothing more than forsaking him to serve other gods." (Haley, p. 229-230).

"The religious activities by which the people sought to please Yahweh provoked only scorn from the prophet, for the festal and cultic activities obscured Yahweh's real nature and activity (4:4-5).

"If we take Amos' words as they stand, there seems to be little doubt that he condemned the entire religious pattern--feasts, sacrifices, ritual music, offerings, tithes--everything. Jerald LaRue, Old Testament Life and Liturature (ch 18)

What was the Meaning of LIKE THE NATIONS?

All of the nations were under the influence of Babylon. And hadn't God sentenced Israel to be send beyond Babylon when they never changed from the musical idolatry at Mount Sinai?

"I lifted up mine hand unto them also IN THE WILDERNESS, that I would SCATTER them among the heathen, and DISPERSE them through the countries; Eze 20: 23

AND it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations; Gen 14:1KJV

At this time Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of Goiim Gen 14:1NIV

Gowy (h1471) go'ee; rarely (short.) goy go'-ee; appar. from the same root as 1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence a Gentile; also (fig.) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts: - Gentile, heathen, nation, people

An interesting word is:

Gowb (h1462) gobe; from 1461; the locust (from its grubbing as a larve): - grasshopper, * great.

There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts. Nah 3:15

Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away. Nah 3:16

Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are. Nah 3:17

Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them. Nah 3:18

Apollo or Abaddon will resurrect them in the end to separate those marked by the Word of Jesus from those MARKED by music. As Saturn in Rome his number is 666.

J.P. ARENDZEN in an article about Babyon in the Catholic Encyclopedia notes that:

The Hebrew word goyim, "nations", is a clerical error for Gutium or Guti, a neighbouring state which plays an important role throughout Babylonian history.

Of Kudur-lahgumal, King of the Land of Elam, it is said that he "descended on", and "exercised sovereignty in Babylon the city of Kar-Duniash". We have documentary evidence that Eriaku's father Kudurmabug, King of Elam, and after him Hammurabi of Babylon, claimed authority over Palestine the land of Martu. This Biblical passage, therefore, which was once described as bristling with impossibilities, has so far only received confirmation from Babylonian documents.

In Ezekiel 8 we will see the women lamenting for Tammuz. This is always connected to Ishtar. Therefore, the music of Jerusalem was the music of Babylon:

"the testimonies of neighboring civilizations are of little value, as they concern chiefly the music of courts or temples, which in Sumer, Babylon, and Canaan was then in the hands of professional priests-musicians.

We have only a few remarks of Herodotus about Egyptian practices, which were similar to those of ancient Hebrew popular singing. He refers to the 'lament for Linos,' also to women's chants in procession of the cult of Osiris and the Diana of Bubastis. In Phonicia and Syria

almost all popular music reflected the worship of Ishtar, the goddess of fertility." (Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, p. 461, Abingdon).

See the Tammuz worship in the temple while the men bowed to Ishtar in the east.

See that the Musical Precentor was identified as "the first heresy largely pervading the church."

See the PRAISE LEADER launched in Babylon.

What was God's Solemn Warning?

God selected the kings "in His anger and took them away in His anger." Ecclesiasticus says that the Kings were selected to DESTROY THE NATION because they demanded to worship like the Babylonians.

O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help. Hosea 13:9

I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? Hosea 13:10

I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath. Hosea 13:11

The king taking the youth of Israel to be His Singers and Musicians is identical to that of all pagan nations.

Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them. 1 Samuel 8:9

And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. 1 Samuel 8:11

And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and

to make his instruments of war,

and instruments (trumpets to toot the people away) of his chariots. 1 Samuel 8:12

WAS THIS FULFILLED?

Remember the warning: David and the other kings were not selected to be spiritual or "worship leaders." Rather, afte warning the elders God gave them kings in His anger and took the away in His anger. They were selected to fill up the cup of God's wrath. Their victories and rituals really destroyed them because they wanted to ignore the Word of God and live like the Babylonians. Therefore, even before the temple was built after his death:

MOREOVER David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was: 1Chr.25:1

David (King), together with the commanders of the army, set apart some of the sons of Asaph, Heman and Jeduthun for the ministry of prophesying, accompanied by harps, lyres and cymbals. Here is the list of the men who performed this service: 1Chr 25:1NIV

We note that the SERVICE was not worship but hard bondage during animal sacrifices and even driving the Hebrews into slavery contrary to the Law.

"David gathered around him a group of courtiers who derived their support and authority from the crown. This organization represented a great change from the days of the Confederacy when leadership was based on a person's status in his tribe or on the divine charisma. The administration of law, which previously had been vested in the tribal 'elders' who sat at the gate, or in the judges of the Confederacy, was taken over by the king himself." (Anderson, Bernhard W., Understanding the Old Testament, 3rd, Prentice-Hall, p p. 182 )

From the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nathan and Asarelah.

The sons of Asaph were under the supervision of Asaph,

who prophesied under the king's supervision." 1 Chr 25:2

All these men were under the supervision of their fathers for the music of the temple of the LORD,

with cymbals, lyres and harps, for the ministry at the house (court) of God. Asaph, Jeduthun and Heman were

under the supervision of the king." 1 Chr 25:6NIV

Speaking of Apollo or Abaddon or Apollyon using the Team of 9 Muses:

"So, also, certain others of these ecstatics become entheast or inspired when they hear cymbals, drums, or some choral chant; as for example, those who are engaged in the Korybantic Rites, those who are possessed at the Sabazian festivals, and those who are celebrating the Rites of the Divine Mother (ZOE). Others, also, are inspired when drinking water, like the priest of the Klarian Apollo at Kolophon; others when sitting over cavities in the earth,

like the women who deliver oracles at Delphi; others when affected by vapor from the water, like the prophetesses at Branchidæ; and others when standing in indented marks like those who have been filled from an imperceptible inflowing of the divine plerome.

Others who understand themselves in other respects become inspired through the Fancy: some taking darkness as accessory, others employing certain potions, and others depending on singing and magic figures. Some are affected by means of water, others by gazing on a wall, others by the hypethral air, and others by the sun or in some other of the heavenly luminaries. Some have likewise established the technique of searching the future by means of entrails, birds, and stars. Iamblichus

The temple was QUARANTINED from the people's congregation during the burning of animals. The temple because the focus of idol worship and Jerusalem is defined by John as "Egypt and Sodom."

"He wanted to replace the old Tent with a splendid royal temple patterned after the temples of other nations. However, the conservative religious traditions of the Confederacy was voiced by the prophet Nathan, who argued that Yahweh had not dwelt in a 'house' since the time of the Exodus but had been 'moving about in a tent' (II Sam. 7:6) So David wisely conceded to the prophet that this was going to for--at least for the time being. He contented himself himself with reorganizing Israel's religion in other spheres, especially music. According to the Chronicler (1 Crhon 25) David organized the musicians into guilds." (Anderson, p. 183)

According to Alfred Edersheim defines the process.

Let's Run through that process again to see that as in all "like the nations" temple ritual, the people did not participate. Under the Law of Moses the people -- as in all "like the nations" temples -- were excluded because of their musical idolatry at Mount Sinai. Edersheim points out that the "stationary men" represented the 'congregation" but that the people were shut out of the sacrificial offering: First: As the last great gate slowly moved on its hinges, the priests, on a signal given, blew three blasts on their silver trumpets, summoning the Levites and the 'representatives' of the people (the 'stationary men') to their duties, and announcing to the city that the morning sacrifice was about to be offered. Second: As the president gave the word of command, which marked that 'the time of incense had come,' ' the whole multitude of the people without' withdrew from the inner court, and fell down before the Lord, spreading their hands * in silent prayer. Third, The temple Music was blown and songs sung. This excluded all people not of the tribe of Levi. It also excluded all women. Fourth: This closed the morning service. [Note: only representatives of the people were present. The common Jews did not participate in this temple service] Edersheim points out that the "stationary men" represented the 'congregation" but that the people were shut out of the sacrificial offering: First: As the last great gate slowly moved on its hinges, the priests, on a signal given, blew three blasts on their silver trumpets, summoning the Levites and the 'representatives' of the people (the 'stationary men') to their duties, and announcing to the city that the morning sacrifice was about to be offered. Second: As the president gave the word of command, which marked that 'the time of incense had come,' ' the whole multitude of the people without' withdrew from the inner court, and fell down before the Lord, spreading their hands * in silent prayer. Third, The temple Music was blown and songs sung. This excluded all people not of the tribe of Levi. It also excluded all women. Fourth: This closed the morning service. [Note: only representatives of the people were present. The common Jews did not participate in this temple service] It was immediately followed by the sacrifices and offerings which private Israelites might have to bring, and which would occasionally continue till near the time for the evening service Conclusion: the sacrificial worship was for the secular Temple-State and not for the congregation of Israel.

How do we know that this was like the Babylonian Nations? See a separate document.

We know that Israel repudiated Jehovah in favor of the ancient Babylonian (Egyptian, Canaanite) Pantheon. From the very beginning, these pagan religions were MATRIARCHIAL.

From Another Document we understand that the "female" or Lucifer instructing principle taught the men how to become musical worship teams.

And Zoe (Life), the daughter of Pistis Sophia, cried out and said to him, "You are mistaken, Sakla!" - for which the alternative name is androgynous.

She breathed into his face, and her breath became a fiery angel for her; and that angel bound Yaldabaoth and cast him down into Tartaros below the abyss.

Now when his offspring Sabaoth saw the force of that angel, he repented and condemned his father and his mother, matter. He loathed her, but he sang songs of praise up to Sophia and her daughter Zoe.

And Sophia and Zoe caught him up and gave him charge of the seventh heaven, below the veil between above and below. And he is called 'God of the forces, Sabaoth', since he is up above the forces of chaos, for Sophia established him.

Now when these (events) had come to pass, he made himself a huge four-faced chariot of cherubim,

and infinitely many angels to act as ministers,
and also harps and lyres.
And Sophia took her daughter Zoe and had her sit upon his right to teach him about the things that exist in the eighth (heaven);

and the angel of wrath she placed upon his left.

Since that day, his right has been called 'life' (ZOE);

and the left has come to represent the unrighteousness of the realm of absolute power above. Itwas before your time that they came into being.

Pseudo-Apollodorus

[1.9.7] Salmoneus at first dwelt in Thessaly, but afterwards he came to Elis and there founded a city.

And being arrogant and wishful to put himself on an equality with Zeus, he was punished for his impiety; for he said that he was himself Zeus, and

he took away the sacrifices of the god and

ordered them to be offered to himself;

and by dragging dried hides, with bronze kettles, at his chariot,

he said that he thundered,

and by flinging lighted torches at the sky

he said that he lightened.

But Zeus struck him with a thunderbolt, and wiped out the city he had founded with all its inhabitants.

Note: In the traditions concerning Salmoneus we may perhaps trace the reminiscence of a line of kings who personated the Skygod Zeus and attempted to make rain, thunder and lightning by means of imitative magic. See The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, i.310, ii.177, 180ff. Sophocles composed a Satyric play on the subject (The Fragments of Sophocles, ed. A. C. Pearson, vol. ii. pp. 177ff. ). 19) Pseudo-Apollodorus Library 1.9.7 (Loeb

Euripides

Chorus

Once with swift foot the mountain Mother of the gods rushed through the wooded glen, and the river's streams and the deep-thundering sea wave, yearning for her lost daughter, whose name may not be spoken.

The loudly rattling castanets cried out a shrill sound,

when they, swift-footed as whirlwinds,

followed the goddess on her chariot yoked to wild creatures, after the girl that was snatched away from the circling chorus of maidens--

here Artemis with her bow, and there the grim-eyed goddess, in full armor, with her spear. But Zeus, who sees clearly from his throne in heaven, brought to pass another destiny.

In Babylonia, in a temple LIKE ALL NATION'S TEMPLES, among even the vilest of paganism, the musicians NEVER entered into the holy areas. The Holy Place in Jerusalem patterned somewhat after the Tabernacle was a carnal type of the church of Christ. Therefore, to bring music into the church is to go beyond the worst offenders even at the tower of Babel:

"Let me advise you and may my advice be taken. Direct your steps to Jirsu , the foremost house of the land of Lagac , open your storehouse up and take out wood from it; build (?) a chariot for your master and harness a donkey stallion to it;

decorate this chariot with refined silver and lapis lazuli and equip it with arrows that will fly out from the quiver like sunbeams,

and with the an-kara weapon, the strength of heroism; fashion for him his beloved standard and write your name on it, and then enter before the warrior who loves gifts, before your master lord Nin-jirsu in E-ninnu-the-white-Anzud-bird,

together with his beloved balaj drum Ucumgal-kalama, his famous instrument to which he keeps listening. Your requests will then be taken as if they were commands;

and the drum will make the inclination of the lord - which is as inconceivable as the heavens - will make the inclination of Nin-jirsu , the son of Enlil ,

favourable for you so that he will reveal the design of his house to you in every detail.

With his powers, which are the greatest, the warrior will make the house thrive (?) for you.´

The true shepherd Gudea is wise, and able too to realize things. Accepting what Nance had told him, he opened his storehouse up and took out wood from it. Gudea checked (?) the wood piece by piece, taking great care of the wood. He smoothed mes wood, split halub wood with an axe and built (?) a blue chariot from them for him. He harnessed to it the stallion Pirij-kase-pada .

He fashioned for him his beloved standard, wrote his name on it and then entered before the warrior who loves gifts,

before his master lord Nin-jirsu in E-ninnu-the-white-Anzud-bird together with his beloved drum, Ucumgal-kalama, his famous instument to which he keeps listening.

He joyfully brought the drum to him in the temple. Gudea came out of the shrine E-ninnu with a radiant face.

Its storehouse is full of gems, silver and tin. Its coach-house is a mountain set on the ground. Its drum hall is a roaring bull.

Its courtyard resounds with holy prayers, sim and ala drums.

Its stone stairs, laid before the house, are like a mountain range lying down in princely joy.

A carnal king sheds the blood OF the enemies and puts his boot on their necks. For instance,

Hesoid: Shield of Heracles provides the almost universal background:

(ll. 191-196) And on the shield stood the fleet-footed horses of grim Ares made gold, and deadly Ares the spoil-winner himself. He held a spear in his hands and was urging on the footmen: he was red with blood as if he were slaying living men, and he stood in his chariot. Beside him stood Fear and Flight, eager to plunge amidst the fighting men.

(ll. 197-200) There, too, was the daughter of Zeus, Tritogeneia who drives the spoil (3). She was like as if she would array a battle, with a spear in her hand, and a golden helmet, and the aegis about her shoulders. And she was going towards the awful strife.

(ll. 201-206) And there was the holy company of the deathless gods:

and in the midst the son of Zeus and Leto played sweetly on a golden lyre.

There also was the abode of the gods, pure Olympus, and their assembly, and infinite riches were spread around in the gathering,

the Muses of Pieria were beginning a song like clear-voiced singers.

(ll. 270-285) Next, there was a city of men with goodly towers; and seven gates of gold, fitted to the lintels, guarded it.

The men were making merry with festivities and dances; some were bringing home a bride to her husband on a well-wheeled car, while the bridal-song swelled high, and the glow of blazing torches held by handmaidens rolled in waves afar.

And these maidens went before, delighting in the festival;

and after them came frolicsome choirs,

the youths singing soft-mouthed to the sound of shrill pipes,

while the echo was shivered around them,

and the girls led on the lovely dance to the sound of lyres.

Then again on the other side was a rout of young men revelling,

with flutes playing; some frolicking with dance and song, and

others were going forward in time with a flute player and laughing.

The whole town was filled with mirth and dance and festivity.

In Tyre where the King is reresented as LUCIFER.

Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. Is.23:16

In Jerusalem speaking for Egypt and the Assyrians which implicates man of Israel. We see how God treated the invaders who were not reluctant to take their musical idolatry into the temple:

Must ye always rejoice, and go into my holy places continually, as they that keep a feast (festival)? and must ye go with a pipe, as those that rejoice into the mountain of the Lord, to the God of Israel Isaiah 30:29 LXX

Holy or Qadash is the ceremonially pure temple. Qadesh is a "sacred person" devoted to sodomy.

And the Lord shall make his glorious voice to be heard and the wrath of his arm, to make a display with wrath and anger and devouring flame: he shall lighten terribly, and his wrath shall be as water and violent hail. Isaiah 30:30 LXX

For by the voice of the Lord the Assyrians shall be overcome, even by the stroke where with he shall smite them. Isaiah 30:31 LXX

And it shall happen to him from every side, that they from whom their hope of assistance was, in which he trusted, themselves shall war against him in turn with drums and with harp. Isaiah 30:32 LXX

"For a while in the Middle Ages, the bishops banned the use of brass instruments in churches because they were brash and produced what was perceived as " Devil tones " and "Satan's music ".

This proscription was intended to sever the link with all ancient, Old Testament forms of worship ritual and its associated Egyptian ritual.

However, it is interesting that, from the Reformation, secular music was almost totally dedicated to the use of brass instruments with composers like Purcell, Handel and Bach at the forefront of great choral and brass-dominated works.

The fact is that, today, both Church and State ceremonies inherit their musical traditions from the priestly ritual and military pomp of the early time-frame. Adrian Wagner

Rising up to Play at Mount Sinai was this same MUSICAL IDOLATRY:

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

When David PLAYED before the Ark believing that God was inside the word PLAYED is:

And David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals. 2S.6:5

And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod (female garment). 2 Sam 6:14

Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself 2 Sam 6:20

This RISING UP TO PLAY is the Hebrew:

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.

And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands. 1S.18:7

When Samson GROUND in the king's house he was forced to SPORT. Both of the words used of Mount Sinai and by David implicate MAKING SELF VILE and grinders were abused.

God promised the elders that the kings would make their boys produce INSTRUMENTS OF CHARIOTS. These were musical instruments to allow the returing king to TRIUMPH OVER his enemies.

In Discoveries At Nineveh, chapter 9

A second bas-relief represented the dead in the background.

On the upper part of the two slabs following the battle-scene was the triumphal return after victory.

In front of the procession were warriors throwing the heads of the slain at the feet of the conquerors.

Two musicians, playing on stringed instruments, preceded the charioteers, who were represented unarmed, and bearing their standards; above them was an eagle with a human head in its talons.

The king came next in his chariot, carrying in one hand his bow, and in the other two arrows - the attitude in which he is so frequently represented on Assyrian monuments, and probably

denoting triumph over his enemies.

Above the horses was the presiding divinity; also holding a bow.

The attendant, who in war bore the shield, was now replaced by an eunuch, raising the open parasol - the Eastern emblem of royalty. The horses were led by grooms, although the charioteer still held the reins. Behind the king's chariot was a horseman leading a second horse, gayly caparisoned.

This was outlawed when the tribes assembled or synagogued:

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

Alarm is:

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

Psalm 41 prophesied that Judas--whose Judas Bag carried the mouthpieces of wind instruments would not TRIUMPH OVER or play music and make a joyful noise over Messiah and get by with it: this was a warrior's chant and not worship.

As Fulfilled By David "Singing to the Gentiles" and shedding the blood OF the Gentiles.

I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed. Psalm 18:37

I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet. Psalm 18:38

Or: And I have consumed them, and wounded (smashed) them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet. 2 Sam 22:39

Consumed is:

Kalah (h3615) kaw-law'; ... consume): - accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy utterly... take away, waste.

A close word is variously translated as sword, weapon or musical instrument.

Keliy (h3627) kel-ee'; from 3615;... vessel or weapon): - armour ([-bearee]), artillery, bag, carriage, instrument, jewel, psaltery, sack, stuff, thing, tool, vessel, ware, weapon, / whatsoever.

For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me. Psalm 18:39

Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me. Psalm 18: 40 (2 Sam 22:41)

They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the Lord, but he answered them not. Psalm 18: 41

Then did I beat them small as the dust (the background to literal melody in Greek) before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets. Psalm 18: 42 (2 Sam 22:43)

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

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.

Psallo or "melody" is derived from:

Psocho (g5597) pso'-kho; prol. from the same base as 5567; to triturate, i.e. (by anal.) to rub out (kernels from husks with the fingers or hand): - rub.

Medical science knows that you can physically and emotionally grind people into bits with music. This is why the SPIRITUAL church of Christ is directly commanded to keep the singing (secular) and melody (polluting, prostituting, grinding, destroying) in the SPIRIT and not let it break out.

WAS THIS WORSHIP? No.

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