They did appear to appreciate tambourines and dancing and cymbals however:
Exo 15:20 Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.
Psa 149:3 Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!
Psa 150:4 Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!
1Sa 10:5 After that you shall come to Gibeath-elohim, where there is a garrison of the Philistines. And there, as soon as you come to the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying.
1Ch 15:16 David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers as the singers who should play loudly on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.
1Ch 15:27 David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as also were all the Levites who were carrying the ark, and the singers and Chenaniah the leader of the music of the singers. And David wore a linen ephod.
1Ch 15:28 So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, to the sound of the horn, trumpets, and cymbals, and made loud music on harps and lyres.
1Ch 15:29 And as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David dancing and rejoicing, and she despised him in her heart.
Jesus even put a little dancing in the parable of the prodigal son
Luk 15:25 "Now his older son was in the field, and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.
Anyone think that dancing and tambourines are a problem in church?
Yes, and to deny this form of worship existed among the 12 tribes would be blindness to their problems and ours.
It was not long after David's experience in bringing up the ark to Jerusalem and putting it in the tent that he had prepared, that his incidence with Bathsheba occurred. He saw her and took her just as he had taken many a man in combat, the same way that he killed Goliath and the lion and the bear as a youth. He told his servants to get her for him. Uriah was a gentile anyway. She did not resist the king.
The super moralists/legalists among the timid academic/religious leaders of the 12 tribes never forgot or forgave David's failure, just as it occurs among us today in government circles by timid leaders, religious and academic. Timid souls desire to commit pleasurable acts but are restrained because of the loss of human favor that will occur to them. They hide behind a tree in the midst of the garden. They are not restrained because of dishonor to the Lord.
Those who worship the Lord Jesus through the most aggressive forms of music, similar to those described in the quoted post, are experiencing an increasing divorce rate. They look so favorably upon their forms of worship that they insist that the divorce rate has no connection to their worship habits.
Yet, that is the thinking of us all, once the Lord has moved our thoughts beyond the stony ground vision of Jewish legalism. The seducing spirit of Greek philosophy teaches us that bodily habits cannot corrupt faith.
Then grace delivers us from this seduction, but not back into the righteousness of bodily deeds. Grace changes our entire purpose for being on this earth, not all at once, but little by little.
Faith comes to us in a moment and delivers our mind from counting our deeds as worthy of reward. We grow in grace little by little and its newness of purpose in service through the Spirit and cease being the Lord's counselor.
The Greek vision of faith involved a denial of any connection between faith and our bodily processes. This thinking was woven into the doctrine of the early christians and has been transmitted to us, their spiritual offspring.
A reaction set in after the 16th century Reformation in western christianity and groups began to form in the name of Jesus who equated bodily habits with holiness of heart, as the Jews did.
Eventually faith and grace were just words and bodily habits became the controlling standard of righteousness in the service of grace. Yet they could verbalize the doctrines of imputation and being justified by faith through the blood. Even these can be transmitted through education and absorbed into the intellect.
The Lord warned the 12 tribes through Moses, and the house of Judah through Isaiah, that he would speak to them through a people that would make them jealous. The Lord brought this to pass through the influence of the religious philosophy of the Athenian Greeks; Plato and Aristotle in particular. The Roman ethical and moral philosophers were just exponents of the nucleus of the Greek seeds.
We have been brought into this world in the midst of the conflict between the extremes of these two positions of thought, Jewish law of restraint against Greek human freedom. When we shift from one extreme to the other, we feel we have been converted/enlightened/born again. It is an education of the intellect, which has power in our thoughts and feelings.
The Jewish spirit is the rocky ground of everlasting righteousness through the deeds of the body. It is offended when trials arise and it will accuse.
The Greek spirit is the plant of faith with all the leaves but no fruit and it will despise ignorance and excuse sexual immorality in the name of human weakness.
It is true in both the Jewish mode and the Greek mode of religion and thought that "when I would do good, evil is present with me."
Rom 2:15-16
15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;
16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. KJV
Matt 7:11
11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children,
KJV
Joe
