If you are wondering what all this is about. Instead of trying to read several months worth of postings about Richland Hills Church or Christ, I urge you to go straight to the website and listen for yourself. Otherwise, you might get wrong information.

Go to www.rhchurch.org and look for the both/and church series and listen to all three lessons in the series. It will address issues that are shaking up the body and if you listen carefully and honestly, might have your eyes opened.

I am a member of the church of Christ and love and support this church and others like them who are making this bold move. We are on the verge of something big and I hope it continues to move across the U.S.A.

Praise the Lord!

Please listen to the tapes but I can assure you that Rick follows the legalistic patternism well documented in all of the books printed by the Christian church preachers.

Because he has presented himself as representing the non-instrumental churches at the NCCA as Max has led the non-instrumental debate with the same person at the Tulsa breakdown, while holding a long-term agenda to PREACH that sermon and BOTH PRO-instumental all of the time, we must understand that the agenda of the Christian church has been to suck in people and their goal of adding a thousand or so (was 5000) congregations has been admitted to include converting peaceable churches of Christ.

I have reviewed the important books by the Christian Church: Tom Burgess, Dwayne E. Dunning and minor players who do a DITTO HEAD repeat. I want to pre-warn you that each and every point made in these sermons were RAW ASSERTIONS lacking even the minimal proof-text out of context. I have taken the PROOF TEXTS for words like PSALLO and then quoted the REST of the story to prove that these were males PLUCKING the harp strings to seduce a young boy whose hair had been PLUCKED or--in the wish of Paul--had the KNIFE SLIP as DOGS or priests of the Mother Goddes figures.

Because we have been New Testament Churches there is NO REASON that most are Old Testament literate and do not know WHAT was taking place when and where they get INSTRUMENTS being demanded and we are DISOBEDIENT if we do NOT use them.

I would love to have a printed version of the sermons but from listening to all of them and taking notes I can tell you that EACH ONE is Twisted to the point of pain. I have no doubt about what I heard because I have read it and reviewed it for a full decade while watching and warning about what the unholy trinity was planning to pull off in the name of UNITY.

I challenge you to listen and TAKE NOTES. Demand that Rick give you chapter and verse and references to the church Fathers he misuses. Faithful churches in Texas should DEMAND that the preachers and elders GIVE AN ACCOUNT for their false teachings and sowing of discord and OFFENDING thousands of these little ones.

Neither Rick nor ACU nor more than a few people within the brotherhood and sisterhood have a CLUE to the meaning of Israel rising up to PLAY which invited God who agreed and TURNED THEM OVER TO WORSHIP THE STARRY HOST (Acts 7 etal, etal). Nor do they know that the Monarchy was by request and then command a Goyim or NATIONAL system JUST LIKE Babylon and Canaanite systems. If God abandoned them to paganism then WHY would thousands of people still FUND a church wanting to GO AND DO LIKEWISE? One church Father agrees and says that the fact that the Temple existed only for a short time and at one (quarantined) place PROVES that the system used as a SECTARIAN PATTERNISM is heresy.

Maybe you can set up a listening and learning session with someone to give us a written note and you will find that it is the most outrageous claim of authority to SOW DISCORD in church history. I will pay for a transcript.

Either Rick and a small band of RESTRUCTURE friends are right or I am right. Because I have been crying in the wilderness (literally) and don't get paid I tend to agree that I AM TELLING YOU the truth and someone is SELLING you that which will get you burned.

Reading whole passages is hard work and the MUSICATING in the holy places was always known as SORCERY where the "doctors of the law take away the key to knowledge." If you don't want your church family divided you had better wake up and TRY to read.

Here, I believe, is Rick's FIRST TRUTH that God commands INSTRUMENTAL PRAISE and we are the divisive SINNERS for not obeying God's DIRECT COMMAND. I am absolutely sure that Rick is reading off notes from the Christian Church friends who have labored mightily to make NOT using instruments into a legalistic, sectarian, patternistic heresy.

Those who IMPOSED instruments and became the SECTARIAN LEGALISTIS tumble into real hysterian in their hate of those who WOULD NOT BOW WHEN THEY PIPED. There are more RACA used against ANTI-instrumentalists than any other thing: they even speak of taking the AXE against them and you cannot do that without doing violence to those how REFUSE to sing and dance.

Rick states that our views about instruments were RICK: "simplistic, judgmental, arrogant, Almost no one reading the bible ever conclude instrumental praise wrong. Repeat: give Bible to any sincere person without preimpressions. No one reading the Bible would conclude instrumental praise is wrong.

But, EVERYONE did read the Bible and did reject instruments because they were OUTLAWED and nonsensical in the ekklesia which ALLOWED no performers and was a school of the Bible. Not even Catholics ever thought of needing PROOF nor did the Disciples until 1878 when for the first time in history use PSALLO, a warfare word, as the AUTHORITY they needed to confiscate churches of Christ: it didn't work then and it won't work now other than those who were WILLING DUPES.

When Israel rose up in PLAY of musical idolatry of the trinity God ABANDONED them to worship the starry host (Acts 7 etal). The populace became STRANGERS and were EXCLUDED from the Tabernacle in the wilderness. None but the clergy class who BORE THE BURDENS participated. The rest of the people attended CHURCH to do what Jesus exampled and what the EKKLESIA demands.

Rick and friends will find NO example of the common people assembying to SING and do INSTRUMENTAL PRAISE (what that may be).

Rick then defines those as FEARFUL who do not agree with this latter-day revelation repudiated by all who went before. He then EMPHATICALLY confuses DAVID'S SINGERS with INSTRUMENTAL PRAISE: In doing so he PROVES that instruments were NOT part of God's system--if you will follow closly without music.

RICK: 1. god did not just allow but COMMANDED it. Worship is a matter of obedience.
1 Chron 6. King david had used to give praise.

First, it is a fact that the HALAL PRAISE word is used only once of the "admiration" of Sarah until AFTER the Gentile Temple was built but NOT for God. That word means to BOAST, SHINE, MAKE SELF VILE and the source of the LUCIFER word. Second, there were NO instruments used UNTIL the Temple was built CONTRARY to God's will if Stephen was correct. Paul insists that the Tabernacle was given by God.

Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things,
as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle:
for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount. Heb 8:5

The Tabernacle pattern had NO INSTRUMENTS and no SINGERS.
Chronicles speaks of the Tabernacle in Jerusalem NOT Gibeon.
David prescribed NO Instrumental Praise.
DAVID'S commanded singers were OUTSIDE of the "church" where they kill innnocent animals.
God promised David an ALTERNATIVE Tabernacle but NOT for the people.
But Solomon built a HOUSE with MORE houses for his pagan wives.
The instruments were in connection with the HOUSE.
Therefore, David can never be used for authority because Stephen denied it.

David was given a PAGAN high place because he FEARED to go to GOD'S' tabernacle. Therefore, even the SINGERS were commanded BY DAVID and never by God. This was contrary to the pattern given by Moses because it DEMONSTRATES being Anathema-being turned over by God without redemption.

1Chr 6:31 And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest.

H7892 shiyr sh?yrâh sheer, shee-raw' The second form being feminine; from H7891 ; a song; abstractly singing: musical (-ick), X sing (-er, -ing), song.

1Chr 6:32 And they ministered BEFORE the dwelling place of the tabernacle of the congregation with singing,
until Solomon had built the HOUSE of the LORD in Jerusalem: and then they waited on their office according to their order.

The Tabernacle Holy Place was a pattern IN heaven for the Church: No one dared use INSTRUMENTS after the musical loss of Grace at Mount Sinai. Furthermore, no singer could ENTER into the Holy Place without getting executed.

For the TEMPLE, the service of the MUSICIANS is called HARD BONDAGE using that Abaddon word. That is because INSTRUMENTS are MACHINES for doing HARD WORK.

Now, Rick wants to bring the SACRIFICIAL NOISE MAKERS right into the Holy Place: that defines the FIRST Abomination of Desolation in Jerusalem and the end time when the "singers and musicians are SORCERERS."

FIRST TESTIMONY: Ecclesiasticus in the bound Bible Jesus quoted says of David what Rick just missed:

47:5. For he appealed to the Lord, the Most High, and he gave him strength in his right hand
to slay a man mighty in war, to exalt the power of his people.
6. So they glorified him for his ten thousands, and praised him for the blessings of the Lord,
when the glorious diadem was bestowed upon him.
7. For he wiped out his enemies on every side,

and annihilated his adversaries the Philistines;
he crushed their power even to this day.

8. In all that he did he gave thanks to the Holy One, the Most High, with ascriptions of glory;

he SANG praise with all his HEART and he loved his Maker.

9. He placed singers before the altar, [in the COURT yard]

to make sweet MELODY with their VOICES.

10. He gave beauty to the feasts, and arranged their times throughout the year,
while they praised God's holy name, and the sanctuary resounded from early morning.

David never used any kind of INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC in his TABERNACLE at the Jebusite High Place.
It was only when he became CONFUSED about what God had promised and the WARS WERE OVER that he planned to give a place for the Levitical Warrior Musicans as a Makes Work Project.

ISN'T IT PRETTY CLEAR THAT GOD DID NOT HAVE A TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM IN MIND when "Egypt, Hagar and Jerusalem" are MARKS of slavery and called SODOM?

Acts 7:46 Who found FAVOR [grace] before God, and desired to find a TABERNACLE for the God of Jacob.
Acts 7:47 BUT Solomon built him an HOUSE.
Acts 7:48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth NOT in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet.
Acts 7:49 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?

The Jews clearly understood that the TABERNACLE was God's plan to "dwell with the people." David sinned and was TOO fearful to go to Gibeon. God PERMITTED him to build a Tabernacle (tent) but a CONCESSION to his fear. They knew that THEIR temple system was always a "den of thieves and a house of merchandise." God STILL answered from heavne when the LAY people prayed without a Prayer Minister. Therefore, no scholar would think that this pagan-like Civil-Military shrine with all of its idols was God's PATTERNISM for us.

The singers were ADDED to DAVID'S Tabernacle but NOT to God's. The Levitical Instrument players were WARRIORS and their PARTICIPATION was the CIVIL-MILITARY component. These instruments were COMMANDED BY DAVID and NOT by God as a look at ALL of the evidence will prove. They were to GLORIFY the festivals: only MUSTER AGE MALES were required to attend these festivals where--if they wished--they could convert a tithe into lots of wine and strong drink. SOME PATTERNISM for the New Wineskinners?

Because God promised David a HOUSE in the sense of a FAMILY he thought that God needed a house as grand as the king. David even thought that God was BOXED UP in the Ark of the covenant.

But DAVID never led congregational singing and played his harp! People have been SEDUCED by church stealers into REVERTING to Lost Judaism which was identical to that at the Towers of Babylon: the temple is so pictured by artists.

Rick is wrong: everone in church history knew that MUSIC was outlawed: those who understood REST in the wilderness knows that it was forbidden. Anyone who can define REST in the Greek knows that it is outlawed BECAUSE it hurts. Anyone in the first 400 years knew that even using NON-BIBLICAL texts was outlawed: and they never went to college.

Listen to everything Rick Atchley said. Listen to all three lessons in their intirety and don't take anything out of context. It's too easy for Ken to quote part and you get an inaccurate picture of what he is sharing. It's very eye opening in a positive manner!

Want to restore Sabazianism or DIONYSUS worship like the Abomination of Desolation? They tried that on Jesus but He refused to sing and dance while they PIPED: Jesus cast them out to the AGORA. It fits Revelation 17-18 right on time.

Our "scholars" learned how to proof text but not how to read. That is why they missed the musical idolatry at Mount Sinai as that "transgression" for which God slapped them with a FIREY LAW as He came with ten thousand judges. Stephen and ALL of the evidence says that God TURNED THEM OVER to worship the STARY HOST.

The NATIONAL sacrificial system was a GENTILE system as Sabazianism.

23. Sabazios, Sabaoth, or Sabbat, the god of the Planet Saturn , was better known as Bacchus or Dionysos In Plutarch's Convivial Questions, one of the guests claims to be able to prove that the god of the Jews is really Dionysus Sabazius, the Barley-god of Thrace and Phrygia; and Tacitus similarly records in his History (v. 5) that "some maintain that the rites of the Jews were founded in honour of Dionysus." The historian Valerius Maximus says that in the year 139 BC, the praetor of Foreigners, C. Cornelius Hispallus, expelled from Rome certain Jews who were "trying to corrupt Roman morals by a pretended cult of Sabazian Jove."

WHY doubt that when that is what they PRAYED FOR and what God ABANDONED them to do?

When they demanded a king LIKE the nations God knew that they wanted to WORSHIP like the nations. Therefore, He "gave them kings in My anger and took the away in My anger." The Samuel literature (missed it, huh?) has God giving great detail about what the king would do to ENSLAVE and lead them into captivity. One of the curses was that the king would confiscate the young men to make MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS to run before the king's chariot like all other oriental despots.

That is why the Musical Guilds have Canaanite names.
Why the urge to RESTORE that which God IMPOSED on Israel only after He had abandoned them to to superstitious worship of the STARS rather than the CREATOR of the stars?

When David sinned beyond redemption God gave him a JEBUSITE HIGH PLACE where the "national" altar was established quite identical to all other national temples. Jochin and boaz were PHALLIC PILLARS and the SEA was pagan resting on BULL IDOLS. The PEOPLE were quarantined FROM this sacrificial system. That is why the "congregation" consisted only of the king, civil leaders and clergy. The Levitical Warrior Noise Makers were under the KING and COMMANDERS OF THE ARMY. The civilians attended synagogue beginning as "the church in the wilderness" FROM WHICH loud instruments and "rejoicing" was outlawed AS IF you need a law NOT to make noise when you meet to hear GOD'S WORD.

We saw that Rick was wrong about 1 Chronicles 6. In using 2 Chronicles 29 he and others missed the context and STORY LINE: That might lead them to trying to build an ark on the front line. When they use it to twist the word of a Holy God it will not go unnoticed by Him.

In 2 Chronicles 29 Hezekiah's reform was the KING'S COMMAND as a PLAGUE STOPPING animal sacrifice just as David's original sacrifice at the Jebusite fortress--specificially WITHOUT instruments because you DID NOT play instruments in the TABERNACLE.

c. 1048 B.C. The precedent: David made a deal with God to stop the plagues which he (David) had caused. God gave David a Jebusite High Place to construct an alternative altar because he never lost the fear of God and could not go to Gibeon again. When he built the temple, Solomon did not consult God at Jerusalem but returned to Gibeon. The Musical Guilds wearing Canaanite names did not exist so David did not sacrifice with instruments. Those were only for a temple built by HIRAM the Masonic architect which was a pagan temple devoted to STAR WORSHIP. God proved that HE would not be in the HOUSE: if you bring instruments into the church as Holy Place, God WILL NOT be there.

Ahaz: king of Judah (c. 735–720 BC) who became an Assyrian vassal (2 Kings 16; Isaiah 7–8).

You remember that Ahaz as king had conducted WORSHIP as they did in Amos 5-8, Isaiah 5 etc.

2Chr 28:2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.
2Chr 28:3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire,
after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
2Chr 28:4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

THIS IS WHAT GOD ABANDONED ISRAEL TO BECAUSE OF MUSICAL IDOLATRY

That was the MUSICAL worship which prompted Isaiah in 30 to speak for God promising all such people that THEY would be driven into the word for HELL and the MARKS of that would be hearing Wind, String and Percussion instruments. Because of the neglect of Hezekiah and foolishness, Manessah followed Hezekiah.

c. 728 B.C. Hezekiah's use: The Jerusalem temple was so polluted that not even animal sacrifices could be made there. The priests had set up alternative altars outside of the city. A plague was on the nation, the city and the temple. To collect the people inside of the walls, Hezekiah made a deal with God to purify the temple so that the priests and therefore the people would be more collected inside of Jerusalem and able to withstand a certain attack. The "congregation" was never the common people but the king, commanders of the army, city officials and clergy participated in these rituals.

Now, you might want to worry when Rick wants to use HEZEKIAH as the legalistic patternism: In fact, rather than TEACHING Manasseh, he boasted about lolling around the temple playing his harp. Don't you get the POINT? Someone is supplying a BAD SPIRIT.

2 Chr 33:3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
2 Chr 33:4 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
2 Chr 33:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
2 Chr 33:6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments , and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit , and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

THIS IS THE SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE OF MUSICAL IDOLATRY



THEY ALSO CLAIMED TO HEAR THE "GOD" IN THE SOUNDS OF BURNING INFANTS.

2 Chr 33:7 And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

Enchantments or NACHASH (h5175) means to divine, enchant, observe. NACHASH (h5172) is the serpent in the garden of eden (from its hiss): NACHASH (h5174) meaning Nechushah (copper) passive participle of H5172 (perhaps in the sense of ringing, that is, bell metal; or from the red color of the throat of a serpent ( H5175 , as denominative) when hissing); coppery, that is, (figuratively) hard:--of brass.

Magos incantator, a Magos
I. an enchanter, wizard
Magicus, belonging to magic, magic, magical. superstitiones, vanitates, that were invoked by incantations: linguae= skilled in incantations, cantus, magicae resonant ubi Memnone chordae, mysterious, id. 15, 5

Cantus , u-s, m. [id.] , the production of melodious sound, a musical utterance or expression, either with voice or instrument;
nervorum Sirenum, cantus, symphoniae, cantu tremulo, cantus obscurior, musical play of voice. .
I. Lit., shaking, quaking, quivering, trembling

2. With instruments, a playing, music: in nervorum vocumque cantibuscitharae, horribili stridebat tibia cantu, querulae
magice magikê (sc. technê), in-canto I. To sing in, A. To say over, mutter, or chant a magic formula
aoid-ê 1. art of song, autar aoidên thespesiên [divinely sounding] 5. = eppsdê, spell, incantation,
aeidô, twang, of the bow-string, sound of locusts

A Familiar Spirit is: H178 'ôb obe From the same as H1 (apparently through the idea of prattling a father's name); properly a mumble, that is, a water skin (from its hollow sound); hence a necromancer (ventriloquist, as from a jar):--bottle, familiar spirit.

And the Sounding Brass of 1 Corinthians 13:1 was a hi-tek sounding or echo chamber used as a WEAPON against the enemy.

This does not establish PATTERNISM for Christian worship which is wholly in the new PLACE of the human spirit.

While David did not use instrumental music at the dedication of his alternative altar to STOP THE PLAGUE, Hezekiah looked back for authority for a PLAGUE STOPPING animal sacrifice. God never commanded David to WORSHIP Him with either singer or instruments.

c. 445 B.C We have to wait hundreds of years before Nehemiah used this same precedent to restore the temple and animal sacrifices. Nehemiah makes it clear that it was David who commanded instrument after the Jebusite center was intended to be the site of a better "house" for God.

This is the worship of the Mother of Harlots (Revelation 17) and the singers and musicians are ENCHANTING your pants off to pick them while you sleep: John calls them SORCERERS (Rev 18)

How can ANYONE awake and with their clothes with the FALL for being led back into Babylonian spiritual adultry.

The fact that 4,000 fell for it PROVES that, as the changelings have planned, to use the Navigating the Winds of Change to PUSH you where you would FIRE THEM if you knew that you were being Saucerized and Tenderized. I stand amazed at how our CULTURE is just as backward as SERFDOM.

It is a fact that Rick confessed a very long agenda to INFORM everyone that we are going to add INSTRUMENTAL PRAISE because God COMMANDED IT and we would be disobedient if we did not. That is proof of the Navigating the Winds of Change or there would not have been such FEAR in taking such an audacious step..

It is a fact that a Church of Christ added instrumental music. If that is not true then tell everyone that they DID NOT do so.

You have listened to the sermons and convinced yourself that Rick was telling the truth and Ken is telling lies by quoting Scripture which is not part of the agenda to get a preachers permit.

Now, tell us why you believe that God COMMANDED instrumental praise at ANY time and that this "presumed" command from God demands that WE as a school of the Bible MUST obey that direct command.

I believe you owe that to yourself and to those you have tried to convince that I and all known evidence proves it wrong.

The same PLAY BOOK Rick read from was repeated by David Faust at FHU in 2006: I have tried to give a "comic book" summary and listed just a few of the many Biblical examples which prove that MUSIC is either the CAUSE or MARK of people who have rejected God's Word and them being rejected by a supernatural sign.

http://www.piney.com/David.Faust.Temple.html

I will look in more detail at the Temple Dedication animal sacrifice. Stephen said that

God PROMISED David a Tabernacle
BUT, Solomon built Him a House
BUT, God does not live in physical houses

David put the Ark in a simple Tent.
The singers sang (simple) OUTSIDE the Tent.

When Solomon moved the Ark from the Hill of Zion
to the HOUSE Most Holy Place to Moriah (Jerusalem)
They offered animal sacrifices
120 Levites (only) blew trumpets
David's musicians played
They made ONE SOUND and not MUSIC.

God FILLED the House with His Kabod or heaviness
God did not have a charismatic, sexual fit inside.
This PROVED that God had "gone in exile" and
Both the original place of His WORD and GRACE under the Mercy Seat
Were CUT OFF so that only one person, once a year could enter with fear and trembling.

The Church of Christ restores the Fallen Tabernacle of David
There was no music in the Tabernacle or in the church.
Adding INSTRUMENTS has always been a RESERVED MARK to prove to
the watching World that God has REMOVED his Word and Grace.

The Mother of Harlots (Rev) is the same as the original Babyloniasm
which the Israelites were ABANDONED to in Jerusalem (Sodom)
John calls the singers and INSTRUMENT players SORCERERS who
HAD deceived the whole World.
The CANDLES of the Menorah or seven spirits OF God were removed
Just as the Menorah or seven spirits were CUT OFF from all but a few
priests. ANY singer or musicians who came into the presence of God's
TRUE Spirits would be executed.

Therefore, all evidence proves that you CANNOT mislead that many people without
having some supernatural help. The world wants to hear from ONE person who
believed the sermon.