If ALL of the examples of the ASSEMBLY use commands and examples to MAKE IT CLEAR that the REVEALED Word is, as Paul demanded of the elders and the ONLY authorized pastor-teachers,
to be "taught as it HAS BEEN taught"----
Then we claim that WE have the right to INFER that the 100% evidence can be CHANGED to mean "SING to one another" and "Make melody on a harp" --especially, giggle, giggle, if it makes the old owners squirm!
Then DENY others the right to INFER (a meaning inherent in SYNAGOGUE)
Does that make us a Hypocrite which was the PERFORMANCE SECT of "Scribes, Pharisees and Hypocrites" meaning ACTORS?
It is only CHANGE AGENTS who have any need of INFERENCES because a DISCIPLE will look for even hints of God's will. However, a Greek word meaning SYLLOGISM is included in the meaning of to SYNAGOGUE. You CANNOT listen to any truth without INFERING something about it--unless the singy-clappy-twangy-clangys are ACTING UP. In many of the church history writings the idea of COMMANDS, EXAMPLES and even INFERENCES is used. We give ourselves the right to exercise AUTHORITY in these well-documented ways: why do we REFUSE these ways of "communicating" His will to God?
THEY are also the same GUILTY PARTY which use the LAW OF SILENCE when they whine: "But, God DID NOT say DON'T make music during CLASS TIME when Jesus is speaking through His Words." Bible believers who have accepted the sacrifice of Christ and been WASHED by Him can HEAR the Word in the Most Holy Place under the Mercy Seat and therefore can recognize DIRECT COMMANDS about "music" when we read them. When you are in the Most Holy Place you are sufficiently REMOVED from the musical Gentiles trampling the COURT where the "musical noise" was for animal sacrifices which WAS NOT for God Who already OWNED the cattle. How about this one:
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn. Is.8:20
And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Rev 19:10
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. John 8:44
Well-uh! Jesus often uses Isaiah to warn about the musical prophesiers or "lord, lord sayers" and about those BLIND as a bat and DEAF as a stone. Therefore, it was STILL VALID that there was an APPROVED source of SPEAK OR TEACH. If the Devil CAUSES liars to SPEAK ON THEIR OWN--defining almost all songs and sermons--then WHAT OTHER SOURCE of speaking and teaching IS THERE? Shelly claims to be "working out his salvation" like the olden ones to get a NEW SET OF SCRIPTURES working in PARTNERSHIP with God: can you imagine an amoeba critter YOKED to God!
The Bible and ALL of church scholars--even early Catholic ones--demanded that ONLY the Word can be used for Faith and Practice. Therefore, only latter day "prophets" from Kansas City or Abilene actually BOAST about speaking ON THEIR OWN. The Synagogue Fallacy is probably their PRIME AUTHORITY.
Synagogue is a GREEK word and we might not expect to find it too often in the Old Testament which is not ALL OLD LAW. If you cannot find the SYNAGOGUE for the PEOPLE who were EXCLUDED from the Temple sacrifices for the nation then maybe you should look for words like ASSEMBLE or GATHER. Preachers have a hard time finding the command for the CHURCH to congregate when the word CHURCH does not appear in any texts. The INFERERS even claim that there is NO COMMAND for the church to assemble. But, Paul--as Peter warned --is HARD TO UNDERSTAND especially when he did not use CHURCH but ASSEMBLE and GATHER. isn't that truly SLICK hiding the truth in plain sight?
They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. Ps.74:8
Temple is SINGULAR: synagogue is PLURAL any place where you had those who KNEW the Word or had documents and those NEEDING to be instructed could be a set time and place to hold a HOLY CONVOCATION by reading or rehearsing. Paul said that the way to GLORIFY God would be to speak with ONE MIND and ONE MOUTH "that which is written." Now, a Doctorate of the Law will surely "take away THAT key to knowledge."
One HEBREW is mowed which is EQUATED to Qahal depending on whether it is the ASSEMBLY or the ASSEMBLY:
Mowed (h4150) mo-aw-daw'; from 3259; prop. an appointment, i. e. a fixed time or season; spec. a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand): - appointed (sign, time), (place of, solemn) assembly, congregation, (set, solemn) feast, (appointed, due) season, solemn (-ity), synagogue, (set) time (appointed)
This word frequently appears of the two silver trumpets which is ALL God ever commandeed:
And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. Nu.10:3
These instruments could be used to CALL ASSEMBLY but NOT make music. If you need a command for a BUZZER in church then this is it but don't PLAY the buzzer when Christ is speaking through His WORDS. Paul said that we ARE NOT assembled to the SOUND of the TRUMPET because that always meant fear and trembling:
BUT when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an ALARM [meaning instruments and loud singing]. Num 10:7
Of the church #1577 ekklesia - assembly, called out ones, set apart ones, congregation; in Hebrew this word is #6951 qahal (kahal) - a "synagogue" (E. W. Bullinger, Commentary on Revelation, p. 165-166), an assemblage, congregation, company from the root #6950 qahal meaning specifically a coming together, an assembling, a convocation, congregation; this word is used mostly for religious purposes (see William Wilson's Old Testament Word Studies, p. 92)
There are MANY words which mean to assemble for some stated purpose: The Holy Convocation was to READ or REHEARSE. This was the "synagoguing" during the major festivals where animals were sacrificed on the other days of the week. On the first and seventh day the assembly was:
Miqra (h4744) mik-raw'; from 7121; something called out, i. e. a public meeting (the act, the persons, or the place); also a rehearsal: - assembly, calling, convocation, reading.
This NEVER CEASED in a prescribed meeting even in the wilderness even though they were apparently not observed. The same practice continued for the SABBATH which was for ekklesia or synagogue or SCHOOL OF THE BIBLE and to hear prayers which were often Biblical passages.
This is used of the ASSEMBLY for reading the Word of God: AFTER the move back to the land, the MIQRA or holy convocation to READ or REHEARSE was practiced:
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading {miqra]. Ne.8:8
This distinct reading was cantillation often called "singing" but it was MUSICAL only in the sense that an articulate public speaker uses the normal inflections of the language and SPEAKS sing-song to keep the words from getting jumbled in the air.
The example I quoted above EQUATES the meaning of SYNAGOGUE [where Jesus went to READ but not to WORSHIP] to the SYNAGOGUES OF MOSES:
And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to READ. Lu.4:16
For Moses of old time hath in every city them that PREACH him, being READ in the synagogues every sabbath day. Ac.15:21
When God spoke at Mount Sinai it was the Book of the Covenant of Grace. The people were not able to ENDURE the simple statement of God's WORD so they IMPOSED moses between themselves and God's Word
And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: 2 Cor 3:13
But their minds were BLINDED: for UNTIL this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the READING of the OLD TESTAMENT; which vail is done away in Christ. 2 Cor 3:14
The DID NOT hear the Old Testament read in the temple! Therefore, from Mount Sinai onward they HEARD but could not UNDERSTAND the Word of God,
Obviously, the SYNAGOGUE continued and MUSIC was outlawed until 1815 in a liberal, German synagogue which ALSO sowed discord and caused a legal dispute. The Restoration Stoneite wing was really IMITATING the lead of the Jews just as modern MUSIC TEAMS appeal to David and the SACRIFICING of innocent animals.
But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. 2Co.3:15
Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. 2 Cor 3:16
Now the Lord IS THAT SPIRIT: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 2 Cor 3:17
The LAW was added because of TRANSGRESSION and not as a system of WORSHIP: worship was as in all of Paul's example GIVING HEED to the Words of God. Animal sacrifices was a FUTILE activity God permitted to see whether they could PAY FOR THEIR FORGIVENESS OF SINS by virtually stripping their livlihood and giving it to the KING where TITHING was one of the CURSES God promised the King would enact.
The King, kingdom and Temple were CIVIL and LIKE THE PAGAN nations because that was their prayer. Therefore, TRUE WORSHIP was falling on the FACE OUTSIDE of the gates which were closed on the "musical" signal. The singing, playing and sacrifices are SEPARATED from WORSHIP in Hezekiah's reform.
The God-despising and Word-despising Israelites DID NOT hear the Word BEGINNING at Mount Sinai and CONTINUING well past the time of CHRIST. The HEARING of the Word was NOT in the temple but ALWAYS in the synagogues defined by perhaps a dozen or more words all meaning an appointed time and place to MIRQA or REHEARSE or READ the Words of Qod.
The word EKKLESIA means the same as the SYNAGOGUE. The CHURCH in the wilderness is defined by Stephen's recorded speech as EKKLESIA. Therefore, the church in the Wilderness was the EKKLESIA or SYNAGOGUE.
This is he, that was in the CHURCH in the wilderness ith the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us: Ac.7:38
The ASSEMBLY at the foot of Mount Sinai was the ekklesia or synagogue or CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS. Because the LAW was "because of transgression" and ONLY to cleanse the FLESH, the TRUE worship which DID NOT CHANGE ever, never, was to GIVE HEED to God by giving heed to His Word. Because there is no COMMAND or INFERENCE that God as the Spirit of Christ OUTLAWED the synagogue then we can probably INFER that Jesus the Christ of God was NOT doing something which gives the Anti-christs the authority to ADD "whut seemeth good in our own eyes."
Ekklesia (g1577) ek-klay-see'-ah; from a comp. of 1537 and a der. of 2564; a calling out, i.e. (concr.) a popular meeting, espec. a religious congregation (Jewish SYNAGOGUE, or Chr. community of members on earth or saints in heaven or both): - assembly, church.
The LORD or SPIRIT at Mount Sinai was THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST (1 Pe 1:11, Rev 19:10). He was the ANGEL, the Rock, the Water, the Manna, the Pillar. Therefore, the FIRST rejection of Christ the Holy Spirit was refusing to let Him be the Teacher in this FIRST SYNAGOUGE. This FATAL SIN was focused on the ELDERS and not 3 million people. God REMOVED he MASSES from the sacrificial system by identifying them as STRANGERS so that they could never go INTO the tabernacle court or any Holy precincts where the HORRORS of animal sacrifices took place. This WAS also the "trampling of the courts" because it was a LIKE THE NATIONS punishment and not an "approved patternism." Jesus DENIED that the clergy Jews were the children of promise even though He agreed that they were the children of Abraham. He spoke in PARABLES specificially to keep them OUT OF the gospel system (Matt 13). Any where there is an ACTOR acting out WORSHIP for others for a CUT of the sacrifice you know that their DESCENDANTS are still in total control.
If it was REMOTELY true what MOST of the ANTI-instrumental types falsely PREACH AND PREACH AND PREACH that there was NO COMMAND for the Synagogue in the Old Testament (which is not ALL the Law of Moses) it is still a fact that GOD WAS IN CHRIST reconciling us to Him. THAT would not give any of these anti-Christs the authority to make their OWN CHANGES to the "LAW." The Christian church, so-called HIGH CHURCH authority to GO WITH THE FLOW was NEVER approved in spirit or letter by any church council. And there is almost NO pre 19th century theologian who would not SPEW THEM OUT OF THEIR MOUTHS.
However, it is FALSE PROPHSYING to claim the SYNAGOGUE as the most popular examples of Christ VIOLATING the Law and therefore giving THEM the right to go and do likewise.
Because the synagogue, ekklesia or church in the wilderness existed at least at Mount Sinai and was practiced throughout the Old Testament and more organized in Babylon and NEVER OUTLAWED I am gonna INFER that Jesus did not ADD. Therefore, since the TOTAL FOUNDATION of the CHANGLINGS is based on this FALSE PREMISE I am going to INFER that they have been playing God by adding things like PROFESSIONAL CLERGY and MUSICIANS which ANYONE can prove was universally condemned throughout the Bible and all of church history until the Stonites STUMBLED on the word PSALLO as late as the year 1878 AFTER they had already became the LEGALISTIC SECTARIANS. Ok?
The so-called church is really the Ekklesia or Synagogue of Christ. Jesus approved the concept but not the hypocracy (acting prayers and sermons), there was NEVER any praise service in the synagogue nor in the ASSEMBLY or Synagogue of Paul's writings. Even if Jesus had approved an ADDED thingy called the synagogue He would have by AFFIRMATION utterly condemned the "praise services" added by the AUTHORITY of the synagogue. See the tangled tale they weave?
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...........................THE BOOK
What Happened At the Madison Church of Christ?
There are thousands of churches being taken over across America.
This book is only about one of those churches. It's about the Madison
Church Of Christ. By studying the methods used here along with the resource
references you might be able to inoculate your church. At the very least
you will recognize the signs early on.
Many of the current members of the Madison Church of Christ still don't
know what happened.
Some never will know! This book is for them as well.
Madison Church of Christ was a 60 year old church. At one time it was
one of the largest churches in the US, and the largest Church of Christ.
It thrived for many years on the vision of it's elders and those of
it's ministers. Those visions undoubtably came from the the inspired word
of Jesus Christ.
At sometime in the last 10 years there was a deliberate plan by a majority
of the elders to take the Madison Church of Christ into a more worldly
realm.
They used secrecy, covert planning, and outside sources to scheme and
to change the format and direction of the Madison Church of Christ.
The Elders knew that the membership would never approve such a plan.
Using the tools of the "Community Church Movement"(consultants, books,
seminars, meetings,planters,seeders) they slowly started initiating change
so it was never noticed by the members until it was too late.....
At the heart of the plan was the fact that old members were going to
be driven off so new techniques could be used to go out and reach the unchurched
through new "Contemporary Holy Entertainment" methods developed by the
"Community Church Movement"
Old members had to be kept on board long enough to get their plans ready,
or the funds would not be there to pay for the new building. So by the
plans very nature, it had to be secret.
The church had no plan in effect to renew or approve elders. There was
never any need. The elders had always been "as approved by God". 10 of the last
15 elders would begin to shed some doubt on that.
The Elders did not even need a majority at first, because some of the
elders went along unwittingly.
This edition starts shortly after some of the members begin to smell
something strange in January 2001. Later editions may go back and fill
in some of the timeline.
To even start to understand whats happening here, you must read the
background materials in the first of the book.
This is only the first edition, and not the end. New editions will be
printed as needed. To keep abreast of current changes, please visit our
web site; http://www.concernedmembers.com/madison
Here is the list of players;
5 Godly Elders
10 Not so Godly Elders
120 "Deacons" (allegiance unknown)
2,800 - 4,000 church "members"
2 "teners" (people who have publicly confessed to have broken all ten
commandments)
Unknown number of "sinners" (This is what the 10 elders call us.)
Unknown number of "demons" (Flying everywhere, to many to count)