The ekklesia or synagogue is a SCHOOL OF THE BIBLE. Whatever is written is written for our LEARNING. If we do not treat the word with integrityGod will send strong delusions to TAKE CAPTIVE false teachers and MARK them to be avoided. Grabbing isolated NEGATIVE teacing events and giving them a SECOND INCARNATION as an APPROVED EXAMPLE even when common sense wold exclude music when Jesus is our SOLE Teacher, is--like the Moses-Miriam event--the MARK of people who will NOT obey or even HEAR the word of God because of a SELF cloud of pride and hate.
Ex 15:20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand;
and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
There are many forms of the word PROPHET, but God will PROVE that she does not speak for Him. The Latin used of Miriam is also used once to speak of Jesus Christ which LEAPFROGS all of the Period of Wandering and Law and goes back to to the covenant made with Abraham. The rising up to PLAY at Mount Sinai in musicial idolatry cause God to REMOVE this Abrahamic Covenant of Grace and IMPOSE The Book of The Law of Moses to legislate for the lawless.
The spirit OF Christ spoke through the PROPHETS to univerally condemn music as the MARK and CAUSE of rejecting the Word. Otherwise, to prophesy meant to MAKE SELF a prophets in a singing, dancing and musical sense.
Exodus 15:[20] sumpsit ergo Maria prophetis soror Aaron tympanum in manu egressaeque sunt omnes mulieres post eam cum tympanis et choris
Prophe-ta I. a foreteller, SOOTHSAYER prophet (post-class.; cf. vates): prophetas in Adrasto Julius nominat antistites fanorum oraculorumque interpretes, Fest. p. 229 Müll. (Trag. Rel. p. 194 Rib.): prophetae quidam, deorum majestate completi, effantur ceteris, quae divino beneficio soli vident, App. de Mundo, p. 56, 29: sacerdotes Aegyptiorum, quos prophetas vocant, Macr. S. 7, 13, 9 : Aegyptius, propheta primarius, App. M. 2, p. 127, 3 .
John in Revelation 18 as well as ALL definitions of arusal singing and instruments calls it SORCERY used to DECEIVE the whole world. The Iraelite NATION was DECEIVED here and later by usurping women.
But of the Jewish prophets once to PROVE that Miriam was a propheteSS and not a PROPHET.
--Of the Jewish prophets, Lact. 1, 4, 1; 4, 11, 1; 7, 24, 9; Vulg. Luc. 1, 70.
Luke 1:70 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
Luke 1:71 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;
Luke 1:72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy convenant;
Luke 1:73 The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
MIRIAM, LIKE ALL POETS AND MUSICIANS, INTERPRETED FOR GOD without authority.
The INTERPRETER also idenfifies Miriam as claiming to be a MEDIATOR and the word points to the pagan "gods" known in Egypt as well as Greece.
Interpretes
I. An agent between two parties, a broker, factor, negotiator, div?m, the messenger of the gods, i. e. Mercury,
II. An explainer, expounder, translator, interpreter (syn. internuntius) portentorum, a soothsayer,
BUT Moses DID NOT NEED an interpreter: the NEXT explainer or prophet AFTER Moses would be Jesus Christ. That excludes Miriam as a "face to face" speaker or TRANSLATOR for God.
It is a proven fact that singers and musicians have always considered themselves inspired and they seek a WAGE to interpret the Word of God and LEAD the "worshipers" into the presence of God. In the Apocrypha, the New Testament and the Greek literature we know that Hermes or Mercury is claimed to be the LOGOS or Word. Shelly says that John got the LOGOS idea from Greek philosophy. However, the Hebrew word is DABAR which is the personified voice of God.
ALL poetry and singing is an INTERPRETATION usually several REMOVES from the truth. That is why Peter outlawed Al Maxey from doing PRIVATE INTERPRETATION meaning FURTHER EXPOUNDING. Only by LEAVING the path of Jesus and returning to slavery can anyone PROVE that instruments were anything but MARKS of rank superstitionism, patternism and legalism.
MIRIAM WAS NOT A MUSICAL WORSHIP MINISTER UNLESS WE HAVE RETURNED TO SUPERSTITIOUS, LEGALISTIC PATTERNISM.
Furthermore, Miriam TRANSCENDED the Law and was the "prototypical female usurper" in Paul's mind (?).
Egressaeque I. inf. egredier, Plaut. Poen. 3, 4, 32), (a). To step out, leave, b). To move out, march out, B. Trop. in speaking, to digress, depart, deviate, wander, B. Trop., to overstep, surpass, exceed
Plautus Poen. 3, 4, 32)
"AGORASTOCLES It's time to be quiet, for the door makes a noise. I see the Procurer Lycus coming out of doors; come this way, pray!
"ADVOCATI Why not? But, if you please, cover up our heads, that the Procurer mayn't know us, who have been his decoyers into so great a calamity. (He throws the lappets of their garments over their heads.)
4 His decoyers: "Illices." "Illex" was a bird-call, quail-pipe, or decoy used by fowlers for catching birds.
Transcendo or trans-scend. I. Lit. (freq. and class.; cf.: supero,ransgredior). to climb, pass, cross, or step over, to overstep, surmount.
We quoted PLENTY OF EVIDENCE that the Israelites brought their ABOMINATIONS with them from Egypt. Based on the actual WORDS used, the fact that God said that Miriam WAS NOT a PROPHET who spoke for Him and the DEFINITION of the Egyptian PROPHETESS, we can say with certainty that NO ONE should ever try to make Miriam (bitter and rebelious) into a Musical Worship Minister.
Furthermore, Miriams ANSWERING or INTERPRETING will be identified later by Moses as the PROOF of Idolatry which could be HEARD from a distance.
"The triumphal hymn of Moses had unquestionably a religious character about it; but the employment of music in religious services, though idolatrous, is more distinctly marked in the festivities which attended the erection of the golden calf." (Smith's Bible Dictionary, Music, p. 589).
"We know that all of the Israelite brought Egyptian gods and practices with them and it is not far-fetched to think that Miriam, who had not yet been exposed to the Covenant of God's grace, was part of the consciousness-altering rhythms and which was part of a priestly myth-play brought to destructive consummation at Mount Sinai as the golden calf was called back into action. Marks
To which we will turn as a DISCIPLE rather than a MINER for CENI to impose musical idolatry.
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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)