Anyone who CLAIMS that Amos does not condemn instrumental music in worship and that he was just condemning a BAD MENTAL attitude does not have the mental machinery or wish to know the truth. It is this very unlearned view of the Bible which is the FOUNDATION upon which people introduce instruments based on THERE IS NO LAW WHICH SAITH "THOU SHALT NOT USE INSTRUMENTS IN CHURCH." So THEY are the only ones who uses the LAW OF SILENCE and that makes them LEGALISTS as all of the music words prove.

Rick Atchley says that no honest person could read the Bible and find any condemnation of INSTRUMENTAL PRAISE. I say that someone has NEVER READ the Bible. Only those who have rejected love for TRUTH and who have been deluded with blindness and deafness could read the Bible and find nothing because it is not written in Braile: Jesus says that it is all written in PARABLES to fool the fools who USE the Word like weapons for their on profit. Isaiah 48 defines WHY?

One of the curses was that the KING would take the boys to make INSTRUMENTS OF CHARIOTS which includes MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS to run before his and the warrior's chariots like any oriental despot usurping the role of God. God also began to carry out the captivity and death sentence and the kings WERE CHOSEN to do that and not do TEMPLE WORSHIP.

Now, Acts 7, which they missed, has Stephen identifying as liars those who say that the music was not a problem: "they just had a BAD MENTAL ATTITUDE." Sure, father and son go to the same temple prostitute is just a BAD MENTAL ATTITUDE. Taking up MANY offerings so the wives could have more WINE.

This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina,
and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us: Acts 7:38

This was The Book of the Covenant which was a covenant of grace like the Abrahamic Covenant: it had no mandatory sacrifices, no priesthod and assuredly no music. In Galatians, Paul LEAPFROGS all of the CURSE OF THE LAW period which legislated for the lawless and returns to Abraham for the promise made BY the Spirit OF Christ.

To whom our fathers
would not obey,
but thrust him from them,
and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, Acts 7:39
Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. Acts 7:40
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

Rejoice is Euphrainô

II. Pass., make merry, enjoy oneself

Homer Odyssey 2. Then wise Telemachus answered him: [310] “Antinous,
in no wise is it possible for me in your overweening company to sit at meat quietly and to make merry with an easy mind.

Is it not enough, ye wooers, that in time past ye wasted many goodly possessions of mine, while I was still a child?
But now that I am grown, [315] and gain knowledge by hearing the words of others,
yea and my spirit waxes within me, I will try how I may hurl forth upon your evil fates.

<This is the meaning of Romans 14 with weak diversities excluded and Romans 15 where self-pleasing is excluded and the direct command is to teach ONE ANOTHER using ONE MIND and ONE MOUTH to educate, glorify God, comfort with Scripture and KEEP THE UNITY of the body. Rick is violating the direct command against MAKING MERRY which points direct to singing which always means enchantment or in John's revelation SORCERY.

Luke 16:19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
Luke 16:20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
Luke 16:21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich mans table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

We proved as ALL musical history proves that it is WORKS and therefore RANK LEGALISM and superstition:

Organon , to, ( [ergon, erdô] ) I. an implement, instrument,
A. instrument, implement, tool, for making or doing a thing
3.musical instrument

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

One word defines both WEAPON and MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. In Paul's Writing a LIFELESS INSTRUMENT and a CARNAL WEAPON have the same meaning: none work against principalities and powers in high places (pulpits).

THE FATAL SIN WAS MUSICAL IDOLATRY OF THE TRINITY:

"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).

"And the people celebrated this feast with burnt-offerings and thank-offerings, with eating and drinking, i.e. with sacrificial meals and sports, or with loud rejoicing, shouting, antiphonal songs, and dances, in the same manner in which the Egyptians celebrated their feast of Apis (Herod. 2, 60, and 3, 27)." (Keil and Delitzsch, Vol. II, p. 222).

"We know that all of the Israelites 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, 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.

This "rising up to play" involved eating, drinking, nakedness and musical worship. The goddess, Hathor, is the best candidate for the Mother Goddess of the Mount Sinai idolatry. Here priestessess or prophetesses were highly trained with musical instruments, cultic songs and be able to join in the religious dance.

http://www.piney-2.com/MuSinai.html

This is what they REPEATED in Amos, Isaiah, Ezekiel and other places: Sure, Rick Atchley etal BELIEVE that they can RISE UP TO PLAY because God COMMANDS INSTRUMENTAL PRAISE.

But HERE is what God thought of MUSICAL WORSHIP and the TRIAD

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

Amos and Stephen show that God TURNS YOU OVER to that which you USE as idolatry:

Amos 5:21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

Amos 5:22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
Amos 5:23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

Notice that we have noisy SONGS in addition to MELODY and the INSTRUMENT must be named if intended

Zimrah (h2172) zim-raw'; from 2167; a musical piece or song to be accompanied by an instrument: - melody, psalm.

Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. Is.25:5

The Branch of the terrible ones is from (From Branchus or Dionysus)

H2168 zâmar zaw-mar' A primitive root (compare H2167 , H5568 , H6785 ); to trim (a vine):—prune.
H2167 zâmar zaw-mar' A primitive root (perhaps identical with H2168 through the idea of striking with the fingers); properly to touch the strings or parts of a musical instrument, that is, play upon it; to make music, accompanied by the voice; hence to celebrate in song and music: give praise, sing forth praises, psalms.

"In pagan traditions, musical instruments are invented by gods or demi-gods, such as titans. In the Bible, credit is assigned to antediluvian patriarchs, for example, the descendants of Cain in Genesis 4:21. There is no other biblical tradition about the invention of musical instruments." (Freedman, David Noel, Bible Review, Summer 1985, p. 51).

"The normal order of events was a meal, followed by a drinking party. Entertainment might include anything from a rhetorcian or philosopher discoursing on some topic, to musical entertainment, to sexual dalliance."

"Plutarch implicitly contrasts a serious dinner featuring a sage as the after-dinner speaker with the other sorts of dinners--where sexual play with the girl flute-players or hetairae was common." (Witherington, Ben, Why Not Idol Meat, Bible Review, June 1994, p. 41-42).

Plutarch also defines the Psallo PLUCKING which is the authority of the Legalist Instrumentalists and it always involves older males plucking the harp string to seduce a young boy. Amos did not say MAKE MUSIC and fornicate in the temple BUT HAVE A GOOD MENTAL ATTITUDE. He used the word BUT meaning INSTEAD OF:
Amos 5:24 BUT, let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Amos 5:25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

Amos 6:1 WOE to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came<>

Amos 6:4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

Amos 6:5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;

David was king and the singer--musicians were under the KING and COMMANDERS OF THE ARMY: David never SANG or PLAYED as worship leader in the TEMPLE. Not even the Levites could enter the Holy Place on penalty of death. The proof is that David SINNED but was forgiven for entering the Holy Place when he was starving. The pagans in Amos sang and played IN THE TEMPLE. See the difference? The hard bondage (labor) sacrificial musicians were OUTSIDE and never in the covered part of the Temple. If you will, Rick Atchley can bring his musicians to the PARKING LOT if he decides to BARBECUE A PIG to replace the Lord's Supper:

<>"That chant to the voice of the lyre, accompanying the voice of the lyre with the human voice, giving vocal expression and utterance to what the instrumental music spoke without words. The word, which Amos alone uses in this one place, describing probably 'a hurried flow of unmeaning, unconsidered words, in which the rhythm of words and music was everything, the sense, nothing; much like most glees. The E.M. 'quaver' has also some foundation in the root, but does not suit the idiom so well, which expresses that the act was something done to the voice of the lyre, accompanying the music, not altering the music itself." (Barnes, Albert, Amos, p. 303).

"The central meaning of the Arabic root is "anticipating another," then hurry, negligence, excess, inadvertence in act, and, in speech, exaggeration in praise, and 'got the first word,' 'spoke precipitately, the tongue outrunning the sense.' Walid... says that the corresponding Arabic participle is used to those 'who extemporize poetry, i. e. sing extempore without thought." (Barnes, Albert, Amos, p. 308).

"Doubtless they sounded harmoniously in their own ears; but it reached no further. Their melody, like much Church-music, was for itself, and ended in itself. 'Let Christian chanters learn hence, not to set the whole devotion of Psalmody in a good voice, subtelty of modulation and rapid intonation, quavering like birds, to tickle the ears of the curious, take them off to themselves and away from prayer, lest they hear from God." (Barnes, Albert, Amos, p. 300)

NOR could they drink WINE in the temple but they did. Bad mental attitude or sin?

Amos 6:6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
Most scholars note that it is the FORM which they acted out their worship: Their musical idolatry was CAUSED by their idolatrous spirit. This is quite identical to the musical idolatry at Mount sinai TO WHICH God had abandoned them BECAUSE of musical idolatry. How canany preacher not see that this was more than a bad attitude but the CURSE being worked out first and then in Judah.

From Rick Atchley's take on Psalm 45 he seems to suggest that this was ANTICIPATING what Jesus and Christians would do.

This is the Barbaton played by the Barbarians



However, too many false preachers treat this as NOTHING WRONG WITH THEIR WORSHIP: they just had a bad mental attitude. The fact is that they were sinning in MUSICAL IDOLATRY and this was a MARK that they just did not care what happened to the nation as long as the "preacher and their wives" collected their "fat from the sacrifice."

Amos 6:7 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.

The book of Revelation where John used Apollo and his Muses or LOCUSTS as musical performers and called the SORCERERS, the message is that the Musical Locusts have really taken whole congregations CAPTIVE. All music is a form of torture or creating PANIC which the HIRELINGS can traffic as THE SPIRIT inside.
The Mirzach and the pagan Agapae were similar involving things like drinking menstrual fluids. The early church tried the Agapae as feeding the DESTITUTE every morning as they went out seeking work. Paul commanded Timothy to LABOR and practice this.

Mirzach (h4797) meer-zakh'; from an unused root mean. to scream; a cry, i. e. (of joy), a revel: - banquet.
Marzeach (h4798) mar-zay'-akh; formed like 4797; a cry, i. e. (of grief) a lamentation: - mourning.

"The marzeah had an extremely long history extending at least from the 14th century B.C. through the Roman period. In the 14th century B.C., it was prominently associated with the ancient Canaanite city of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra), on the coast of Syria... The marzeah was a pagan ritual that took the form of a social and religious association... Some scholars regard the funerary marzeah as a feast for--and with--deceased ancestors (or Rephaim, a proper name in the Bible for the inhabitants of Sheol)." (King, Biblical Archaeological Review, Aug, 1988, p. 35, 35) ---- "These five elements are:
(1) reclining or relaxing,
(2) eating a meat meal,
(3) singing with harp or other musical accompaniment,
(4) drinking wine and
(5) anointing oneself with oil." (King, p. 37).

"With the wine-drinking (which is the literal meaning of the Hebrew for feasting), went music and dancing." (Heaton, E. W., Everyday Life in Old Testament times, Scribners, p. 93)
"Worship was form more than substance; consequently, conduct in the marketplace was totally unaffected by worship in the holy place. Amos spoke from the conviction that social justice is an integral part of the Mosaic covenant, which regulates relations not only between God and people, but also among people." (King, p. 44).

This is Rick Atchley's defense for INSTRUMENTAL PRAISE when Jesus meets to be our TEACHER through the WORD (only) and His REST means: "STOP the singing, preaching, instruments."

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

Amos 5:26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch [Ammonites]and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

"Moloch was represented under the figure of a man with the head of a calf erected upon an immense oven, which was lighted to consume at once the seven kinds of offerings. During this holocaust, the priests of Moloch kept up a terrible music, with sistrums and tambours, in order to stifle the cries of the victims. Then took place that infamy cursed by the God of Israel: the Molochites abandoned themselves to practices worthy of the land of Onan (masturbation] and, inspired by the rhythmic sound of the musical instruments, writhed about the incandescent statue, which appeared red thru the smoke; and they gave forth frenzied cries as, in accordance with the Biblical expression, they gave their seed to Moloch." ("History of Prostitution," by Paul LaCroix, French author and historian; 1806-84) Note 1: At the time referred to by Flaubert, Carthage was under siege from unpaid Barbarians enlisted by Carthage in its war with Rome, as mercenaries, and they were out of funds, water. etc. at the time.

This is why they went in MUSICAL PROCESSIONS to Jerusalem: to worship Satan with music and children. That is why Isaiah 30 proves that hell was PREPARED for musical "ritualists":



Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen. Acts 7:44

Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David; Acts 7:45

Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. Acts 7:46
God promised David a house in the sense of a family: David assumed that he had the authority to build a TEMPLE or a house in a pemanent sense. God had given David a Jebusite High Place and david adopted the pagan system.

Skenos (g4636) skay'-nos; from 4633; a hut or temporary residence, i.e. (fig.) the human body (as the abode of the spirit): - tabernacle.

BUT Solomon built him an house. Acts 7:47

Being Old Testament literate and being filled with the Spirit, Stephen has REVEALED in a nutshell that what God AUTHORIZED for alternative sacrifices because David was too fearful of God to go to Gibeon, was NOT what Solomon built as just another Canaanite Temple to carry out the DEATH SENTENCE on Israel.

Oikos (g3624) oy'-kos; of uncert. affin.; a dwelling (more or less extensive, lit. or fig.); by impl. a family (more or less related lit. or fig.): - home, house (-hold), temple.

"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)

King Solomon was a great purveyor of the existence of Moloch. He even erected a temple for worship on a hill overlooking Jerusalem.
A typical worship session, at any one of hundreds of sites throughout the middle east, would include copious amounts of food and drink. There would be singing and dancing. All the while the hordes would be dancing around the statue singing, playing flutes and tambourines to drown out the screams of the dying child.

Howbeit the most High NOT in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet. Acts 7:48

Topheth became a symbol of HELL which is where the king of Babylon with his HARPS and still-breating harpists went to rot on a bed of maggots at Ur. At Jerusalem it has once been "king Solomon's MUSIC GROVE." That is why Topheth, Tambourine means HELL.

Any reader will see that then the LOUD NOISE never called music began the HOUSE was filled with heaviness or DARKNESS so that the PRIESTS COULD NOT SERVE. However, as a VISUAL AID to the reader the people who were OUTSIDE THE GATES prayed to God and God answered DIRECTLY FROM HEAVEN. That is why you should grasp that God slapped Solomon and the house in the face and declared that THEY did not MEDIATE between God's people who SYNAGOGUED and Himself.

Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what HOUSE will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest? Acts 7:49

Hath not my hand made all these things? Acts 7:50

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Acts 7:51

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: Acts 7:52
Who have , and have not kept it. Acts 7:53

When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. Acts 7:54

It was for telling the Jewish CLERGY and Rick Atchley the TRUTH about the temple that they were willing to KILL HIM. Is it any worse to deliberately SOW MASSIVE DISCORD and drive OWNER-WIDOWS out into the cold? I think not.
After the temple was DISABLED at the MARK of the loud 'music' Solomon confessed that INDEED GOD does not dwell in HOUSES. He then backed down and said that you might PRAY TOWARD the Temple but that had NOTHING to do with God Who is Spirit.

Rick Atchley says that God COMMANDED him or someone to worship in a HOUSE using INSTRUMENTAL PRAISE. The Spirit which taught Stephen refutes it. Therefore, saith the Lord:

Amos 5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose name is The God of hosts.

The worshipped the HEAVENLY HOST as a DEATH SENTENCE: Rick Atchley is trying to do the same thing. The lesson is that Jehovah is THE GOD of the hosts. "Why worship the mystic Piper instead of the Creator of the piper."

Woe, Woe, Woe.

You cannot blame the MUSICAL IDOLATERS for using THE LAW OF SILENCE to add instruments when the "conservatives" insist that God COMMANDED INSTRUMENTAL WORSHIP (Agreeing with Rick Atchley) but that God CHANGED HIS MIND. Jesus warned that "doctors of the law take away the key to knowledge and here is the thesis of Lipscomb "Seeing the Lord Lifted Up." Well, HE is too heavy for US to lift up with music of ANY kind.

Terry Briley at Lipscomb: "The book of Isaiah begins with an analysis of Israel's worship. Outwardly, there's nothing wrong. But their hearts are not engaged and their lives are disconnected from their worship."

I am sure that he must have missed the Musical Idolatry at Mount Sinai?

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

Because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai, God turned Israel over to worship the Starry Host. This included Saturn whose number is 666. He is Molech, Remphan, Chiun and many other names pointing directly to MUSICAL IDOLATRY AND PROSTITUTION.

When Israel's elders "fired" God and demanded a king like he NATIONS they meant to be able to worship like the nations:

Also with uplifted hand I swore to them in the desert that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries, Eze.20:23

You say, "We want to be like the nations (heathen, gowy), like the peoples of the world, who serve wood and stone." But what you have in mind will never happen. Eze.20:32

Therefore, the worship in Israel and even in Judah at Jerusalem the musical worship was LIKE THE NATIONS to whom god had "married" them when they polluted His Covenant of Grace.

You can CONNECT as many hearts to musical idolatry as you wish but it will still be idolatry. TOO bad that we have to depend on both sides to DENY what the Bible SPEAKS OVER AND OVER AND OVER.

"Sacrifices, rituals, festivals honoring Yahweh abounded,
but these rites were tangible evidence of lack of knowledge,
for they expressed the popular belief
that Yahweh could be pleased and pacified by cultic ceremonies.

"The condemnation of cultic rites introduced in Amos 4:4 f. and 5:4 f. is picked up again with new vehemence. It has been argued that Amos was not opposed to cultic ritual per se but condemned the mind set of the people by which responsibility to Yahweh was performed perfunctorily and without relationship to daily life and society.

"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. Gerald LaRue, History of the O.T.

I have posted a version of the Stephen-Amos parallel to prove that telling people the truth about the Temple and all that went with it causes even conservatives to GNASH their teeth worse than musical idolaters. That is because the NUT is under NEITHER shell: there is simply NO musical concept allowed by by the Bible, early church history and minimal common sense in what the Campbells called THE SCHOOL OF CHRIST and defined Worship (having read Paul) as READING AND MUSING the Word of God. All forms of music intend to do "mind altering," cannot improve teaching and is called by John and most of the 'singing' words as SORCERY intending to DECEIVE the whole world.

piney01@netnation.com

Probably most of the earlier preachers understood that Amos condemned the use of David's MILITARY music in their northern temple: this was very similar to the Abomination of Desolation as Zeus - Dionysus worship in Jerusale which still contaminated the MASSES that Jesus spoke only in PARABLES knowing that they would not grasp it. Most younger preachers have been indoctrinated with the false notion that God did not condem the PRACTICES which was the musical idolatry prophesied for them at Mount Sinai but their BAD MENTAL ATTITUDE. They are the co-conspiritors with the Christian church in a highly-directed effort to DRAG non instrumental churches into their practice. The Book of Enoch and similar writings show that after people have been suckered into musich by Satan they grasp that they have "fallen and cannot get up." However, their new occupation is to seek AFFIRMATION to give them aid and comfort until, as prophesied, God comes with ten thousands of his saints to execute judgment on them. If the are so CONFIDENT that God COMMANDED INSTRUMENTAL PRAISE and "we should be obedient" that they are driven into dishonest just seeking AFFIRMATION that we are ok for SOWING DISCORD even if YOU don't add instruments. You have noticed that Rick Atchley following other Disciples uses the hate word ANTI-instrumental to define those who CONTINUE to preach against music but you are OKEY DOKEY if you affirm that THEY ARE SCRIPTURALLY SAFE.

Dionysus, in fact, is the eternal New Wineskin god which permeated the whole world under different names. It is a fact that the Jews DID NOT worship Jehovah but applied His name to Dionysus and contemporaneous history notes that the GOD OF THE JEWS was Dionysus and the "acted parables" in fact all repudiate one form or another of his practices. They anticipated that Messiah would be Dionysus and that is why they expected that John would were SOFT clothing of the usual street preacher who would be homosexual. Jesus identified the people as children PIPING in the Agora or marketplace trying to get Jesus and everyone to SING and DANCE the "bowing to Baal" painful initiation.

I forgot to add the link to a quick parallel look at Stephen who, like many others, told the truth about the musical idolatry and the TEMPLE as NOT what God promised David.

http://www.piney.com/Amos.Acts.Parallel.html