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Musical Instruments in the Bible, Part 12 – Stringed Instruments

Nebel – Psaltery, Viol, Psanterin – Psaltery, Sabbka – Sackbut, String/percussion Sumponia – Dulcimer

[Study Aired December 7, 2023]

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excerpt from https://www.biblestudy.org/bible-study-by-topic/musical-instruments.html:

String Instruments (continued)

Hebrew: Nebel
KJV Name: Psaltery, Viol
Strong’s: #H5035
References: 1Sa 10:5, 2Sa 6:5, 1Ki 10:12, 1Ch 13:8, 1Ch 15:16, 1Ch 15:20, 1Ch 15:28, 1Ch 16:5, 1Ch 25:1, 1Ch 25:6, 2Ch 5:12, 2Ch 9:11

Nebel, in 23 Old Testament places, is translated “psaltery.” It is translated, in Isaiah 5:12, 14:11 and  Amos 5:23, 6:5 as “viol.” Jewish tradition states that the Nebel stood upright as opposed to the handheld kinnor.

The psaltery, a type of harp, may have had as many as ten strings (Psa 33:2, Psa 144:9). It was used when the Ark of the Covenant was moved (1Ch 15:28) as well as in worshiping God (1Ch 25:6).

Hebrew: Psanterin
KJV Name: Psaltery
Strong’s: #H6460
References: Dan 3:5, Dan 3:7, Dan 3:10, Dan 3:15

This instrument was used in the court of Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar. It may have resembled a dulcimer that had its strings struck with small hammers.

Hebrew: Sabbka
KJV Name: Sackbut
Strong’s: #H5443
References: Dan 3:5, Dan 3:7, Dan 3:10, Dan 3:15

This instrument was used in the court of Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar. It may have been a type of lyre or harp with four strings.

Unknown Type

Hebrew: Sumponia
KJV Name: Dulcimer
Strong’s: #H5481
References: Daniel 3:5, 10, 15

The KJV word “dulcimer,” found only in Daniel, is a mistranslation. Modern dulcimers are percussion based musical instruments that possess metal strings that are hit with lightweight hammers. Smith’s Bible Dictionary, the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE) and Wilmington’s Guide, however, all state the sumponia was possibly a type of bagpipe.

Tyndale’s Dictionary, however, argues the sumponia couldn’t have been a bagpipe, as musicologists believe no such instrument existed at the time of King Nebuchadnezzar. The uncertainty of the Hebrew makes it difficult to know what is being referenced.

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There are two distinct points being made with these last three stringed instruments we’re looking at. The first instrument we will look at is called NebelH5035 – Psaltery, Viol, and this instrument represents the best that the flesh has to offer, which is the first point.

The second and third instruments, Psanterin – Psaltery, and Sabbka – Sackbut, are both found together in each of these verses, (Dan 3:5, Dan 3:7, Dan 3:10, Dan 3:15), which is where they are being used in the negative context of exalting king Nebuchadnezzar who was commanding the flesh of men to bow down and worship him, representing how sin wants to rule over us via the powers and principalities against which we wrestle. The last instrument that we will look at in this mini-series is the Sumponia – Dulcimer, which is kind of a hybrid instrument resembling a dulcimer or maybe more like a bagpipe. It may be hard to categorize but there’s no doubt as to where it was being used, and again it was among the other instruments in Nebuchadnezzar courts (Rom 6:14-16, Rev 13:7-10, Rev 13:15, Rev 14:7).

Rom 6:14  For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. 
Rom 6:15  What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. 
Rom 6:16  Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 

Rev 13:7  And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.

Rev 13:15  And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

Rev 14:7  Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

The instruments in God’s word always represent the marred flesh that mankind is. However depending on who is playing the instrument and for what reason, we then learn if this instrument, in the context it is being used, is one that typifies someone glorifying God as an instrument of righteousness or glorifying self by being self-righteous. The natural default state that all flesh takes without Christ’s spirit in us is to love vanity and to exalt self, or to be envious of those who are more capable than us in any way shape or form (Psa 4:2, Jas 4:5-7, 1Co 3:3-5).

Psa 4:2  O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.

Jas 4:5  Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 
Jas 4:6  But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble [Heb 12:6].
Jas 4:7  Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

1Co 3:3  For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
1Co 3:4  For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? 
1Co 3:5  Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed [instruments in God’s hand in other words (Php 2:12-13)], even as the Lord gave to every man?

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Starting off with the stringed instrument called Nebel –  PsalteryH5035 that is mentioned twice as having ten strings, witnessing to the perfection of the flesh in man that we naturally strive to attain, being subject to the vanity of this flesh (Psa 33:2, Psa 144:9, Rom 8:20-21).

Psa 33:2  Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psalteryH5035 and an instrument of ten strings.

Psa 144:9  I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psalteryH5035 and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

Rom 8:20  For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 
Rom 8:21  Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption [10 strings] into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 

The other thing to note is that the Nebel or  PsalteryH5035 was being used when Saul was being anointed by Samuel to be king (1Sa 10:1-5). Saul started off with a humble attitude but became exalted in himself. That pride of life is being demonstrated with the perfection of the flesh represented in the negative sense with the NebelH5035 called a Psaltery or Viol. The lesson for God’s people is that only Christ abiding within us can keep us in a humble and contrite state so that the knowledge God bestows upon us does not puff us up as it naturally would (1Co 8:1-3, Isa 66:2, 2Co 12:7-9). King David is a type of Christ who replaces our first rejected anointed tall king (Saul, 1Sa 9:2), our old religious man whose pride in time manifests as it did with king Saul. If we are Christ’s in this age, our old man is overcome and destroyed by the brightness of His coming (1Sa 15:17-18, Rev 13:7-10, 2Th 2:2-8).

1Sa 10:1  Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance? 
1Sa 10:2  When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel’s sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son? 
1Sa 10:3  Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine: 
1Sa 10:4  And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands.
1Sa 10:5  After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psalteryH5035, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:

1Co 8:1  Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
1Co 8:2  And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. 
1Co 8:3  But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

Isa 66:2  For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word [our Father looks to Christ in us as our hope of glory in whom we are accepted (Col 1:27, Eph 1:6)].

2Co 12:7  And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. 
2Co 12:8  For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. 
2Co 12:9  And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 

1Sa 9:2  And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.

1Sa 15:17  And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, [Luk 17:10, Rom 11:20, Rom 11:25] wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel? 
1Sa 15:18  And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed [Representing our overcoming the wood hay and stubble in our life in the early stages of our overcoming (1Co 3:12, Heb 6:3)].

Rev 13:7  And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. 
Rev 13:8  And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 
Rev 13:9  If any man have an ear, let him hear. 
Rev 13:10  He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints [We must experience what others experience but in the end through Christ we will overcome].

Rev 13:10  He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity [2Ti 2:26]: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. 

[The sword is the word of God which kills our old man as we decrease and Christ increases within us. We are able to “killeth with the sword” only because we have been decreasing as we die daily by the sword of God’s word, His spirit that makes it possible for us to die daily (Rom 2:4, Php 2:12-13)]

Here are the Strong’s and BDB definitions of NebelH5035.  

Notice it is all talking about the weak marred vessel which the instrument we all are represents. We are marred in the hand of the potter (Jer 18:4) and in weak and corruptible flesh (Jer 17:9), and the root word for Nebel is H5034 which root word goes on to further demonstrate who we naturally are without God’s spirit strengthening us in this weak flesh. We are “a skin bag for liquids” even now and are blessed in this age if we are Christ’s body (Eph 5:30) being filled with His spirit, both the old and new covenant words or wine that it is likened unto, that make up the sum of His word so that we can be preserved by that which will not pass away, the eternal words of God found in the old and new covenant that we can partake of if we are connected to the vine. That preservation of His word within the body of Christ is the means to the end that will be used to redeem those who are being reserved for judgment (2Pe 3:7,  Jud 1:6, Jud 1:13) in the second resurrection (Mat 9:17, Joh 6:68, Joh 15:5, Joh 5:30, 1Jn 4:17, Joh 15:1-14, 2Sa 14:14).

Jer 18:4  And when the vessel, which he was forming out of earth, got damaged in the hand of the potter, he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make it.

Jer 17:9  The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Eph 5:30  For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 

Mat 9:17  Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.

Joh 6:68  Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. 

Joh 15:5  I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

Joh 5:30  I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

1Jn 4:17  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment [in the day of purging (1Pe 4:17, 1Pe 4:12)]: because as he is, so are we in this world. 

Joh 15:1  I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
Joh 15:2  Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Joh 15:3  Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Joh 15:4  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
Joh 15:5  I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Joh 15:6  If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
Joh 15:7  If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Joh 15:8  Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
Joh 15:9  As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
Joh 15:10  If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
Joh 15:11  These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
Joh 15:12  This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Joh 15:13  Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Joh 15:14  Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

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The second and third stringed instruments, Psanterin – Psaltery, and Sabbka – Sackbut, are both found together in each of these verses (Dan 3:5, Dan 3:7, Dan 3:10, Dan 3:15), which is where they are being used in the negative context of exalting king Nebuchadnezzar who was commanding the flesh of men to bow down and worship him, representing how sin wants to rule over us (Rom 6:14-16). With this in mind let’s look more closely at the definitions of these words, starting with PsanterinH6460

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The key point we can take from these instruments is that they were working in conjunction with each other along with the other instruments, at this occasion with king Nebuchadnezzar, to inspire the masses to bow down and worship him [He being a type of Satan, the god of this world who was once our father whom God used to author our former conversation (Eph 2:1-3)]. The lesson for us to realize is that this is exactly what all the world is doing right now when they turn to the traditions of men and forsake God’s word (Mar 7:7, Jer 5:30-31). It is what we all naturally do as sheep that are led astray without our true shepherd Jesus Christ guiding us and strengthening us into a life of obedience to His words (Isa 53:6, Joh 10:2-5, Php 2:12-13, 1Jn 5:2-3). 

Eph 2:1  And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 
Eph 2:2  Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 
Eph 2:3  Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

Mar 7:6  He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Mar 7:7  Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Mar 7:8  For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.

Jer 5:30  A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
Jer 5:31  The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof [1Pe 4:18-19]?

Isa 53:6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isa 53:7  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Isa 53:8  He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation [Luk 21:32, Rev 13:10, Rev 14:12, Luk 21:19]? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

Joh 10:2  But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 
Joh 10:3  To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
Joh 10:4  And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
Joh 10:5  And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

These next four verses in Ephesians encourage us greatly (Eph 2:4-8) as they tell us how God is going to replace our former conversation, so we can now be considered true worshippers who are worshiping God in spirit and in truth (Joh 4:23). That kind of holy and undefiled worship is the only kind God will accept, and it can only manifest in the church through Christ who is the head of the church, the Vine (Eph 3:10, Eph 1:22-23).

Eph 2:4  But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 
Eph 2:5  Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 
Eph 2:6  And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 
Eph 2:7  That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 
Eph 2:8  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 

Joh 4:23  But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 
Joh 4:24  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Eph 3:10  To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
Eph 3:11  According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: 

Eph 1:21  Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: 
Eph 1:22  And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 
Eph 1:23  Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

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One last instrument:

The KJV word “dulcimer,” found only in Daniel, is a mistranslation. Modern dulcimers are percussion based musical instruments that possess metal strings that are hit with lightweight hammers. Smith’s Bible Dictionary, the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE) and Wilmington’s Guide, however, all state the sumponia was possibly a type of bagpipe.

Tyndale’s Dictionary, however, argues the sumponia couldn’t have been a bagpipe, as musicologists believe no such instrument existed at the time of King Nebuchadnezzar. The uncertainty of the Hebrew makes it difficult to know what is being referenced.

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This last instrument in our list of instruments mentioned in the bible does not have a very clear origin. However, if we look at the surrounding verses in which we find it, we see it represents an instrument used to rally the people into an ungodly position of marching to the orders of Nebuchadnezzar. We have a modern saying that speaks of the conformity of mankind marching to the beat of the same drummer, and that is what the sumponiaH5481 or dulcimer was intended to produce; compliance to the wickedness of that age.

Many are called and few are chosen (Mat 22:14), and the few are called to march to the beat of a different drummer, Jesus Christ the true Shepherd, whom we are blessed to hear in this life and take our direction from as we are led by God’s spirit (Rom 8:14-16). 

He tells us to not be afraid of what men can do to our flesh and promises never to try us beyond the measure that we can endure (Mat 10:28, 1Co 10:13). He also tells His people not to take any anxious thought for the morrow and in the day of adversity not to give thought to what we should say, for the holy spirit will give us what we should say at that hour (Mat 10:19, Eph 6:13). 

In order to be an instrument of righteousness in this life we must be apprehended by our Lord, whose life within us can give us the power to forget what is behind us and go forward with hearts and minds that can glorify Him in all we say and do (Php 3:13-14).

Let us praise him and give thanks, for the bride has been promised to be made ready, and is ready even now in earnest awaiting the redemption of our souls (Rev 19:7, Col 1:14, Eph 1:7, 1Co 1:30, Rom 8:23).

Rev 19:7  Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. 

Col 1:14  In whom we have redemption through his blood [Rev 1:3], even the forgiveness of sins [Rom 2:4]: 

Eph 1:7  In whom we have redemption through his blood [Rev 1:3],  the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace [Rom 2:4];

1Co 1:30  But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption [Rev 1:3]: 

Rom 8:23  And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

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Musical Instruments in the bible, Part 11

String Instruments – [Kathros-Harp, Kinnor-Harp]

[Study Aired November 30, 2023]

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The two stringed instruments we will look at in this study are both harps, and the verses that are used for the Kathros harp are centered around the negative use of hearing something in the world as typified with the events found in these verses: (Dan 3:5, Dan 3:7, Dan 3:10, Dan 3:15). 

The second harp is the Kinnor harp which points to scriptures which primarily discuss the positive effect of hearing the word of the Lord in this life: (Gen 4:21, Gen 31:27, 1Sa 10:5, 1Sa 16:16, 1Sa 16:23, 2Sa 6:5, 1Ki 10:12, 1Ch 13:8, 1Ch 15:16, 1Ch 15:21, 1Ch 15:28, 1Ch 16:5).

Hear the word of the LORD

Our Father in heaven has a lot to say about how we hear the word of the LORD, and every one of these verses which has the statement “hear the word of the LORD” (2Ki 20:16, 2Ch 18:18, Isa 1:10, Isa 28:14, Isa 39:5, Isa 66:5, Jer 22:2, Jer 22:29, Jer 31:10, Jer 44:24, Eze 6:3), was written for our sakes so that a fire can be kindled in the elect that can only begin on ground that has been promised from the foundation of the world to be prepared (Eph 1:4-6, 1Pe 1:20, Eph 2:8-10, 1Jn 4:17, Joh 15:16, Mat 25:34) to receive or read, hear and keep (Rev 1:3) His word which is as fire. “Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?” (Jer 23:29, Mat 24:2).

(The fiery judgments of God in this age upon His children breaks us, not leaving one stone upon another (Mat 24:2), causing us to have a humble and contrite heart (Isa 66:2) in order to be prepared in this age and made ready to be kings and priests who will in time become comfortable in that fire (Isa 33:13-16) and skilled in our ability to apply it outwardly when the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ [1Pe 4:12, 1Pe 4:17, 1Jn 4:17, Jer 5:14, Rev 11:15]).

Isa 33:13  Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might.
Isa 33:14  The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
Isa 33:15  He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
Isa 33:16  He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.

[These munitions of rocks represent the stronghold that God’s word is for His people who are being judged today, and blessed to receive the true bread and water that was taken away from us in the churches of Babylon [Isa 3:1].]

“I am come to send fire on the earth; (process of hearing his word that is as fire Jer 22:29) and what will I, if it be already kindled? But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.” (Luk 12:49-53) These verses remind us that the foundation God is building through Christ comes at the expense of our very families who are sacrificed for us in this age (Rom 11:30-33).

Eph 1:4  According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Eph 1:5  Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 
Eph 1:6  To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

1Pe 1:20  Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you [Rom 5:10, Col 1:27, Rom 8:9],

Eph 2:8  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph 2:9  Not of works, lest any man should boast [Rom 11:20-22].
Eph 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

1Jn 4:17  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
1Jn 4:18  There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 
1Jn 4:19  We love him, because he first loved us [Rom 9:13].

Jer 5:14  Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

Rev 11:15  And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

These verses below remind us that in order to hear the word of the LORD we must die daily through an ongoing process that has been given unto the elect in this age to endure through Christ (Php 2:12-13) making it possible for God’s words to sink down deeply into our hearts and minds (Mat 13:16, Luk 9:44, Joh 17:17, Luk 13:32, Luk 7:22, 1Jn 4:17, Jer 7:2, Jer 9:20, Jer 34:4, Jer 42:15, Eze 16:35, Eze 20:47, Eze 25:3, Eze 34:7, Hos 4:1).

Mat 13:16  But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

Luk 9:44  Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men [1Jn 4:17]. [Christ telling us that we must be armed with His mind (1Pe 4:1) and know that our life in him is one of afflictions, persecutions, tribulation, and suffering, of being hated by all men for his name sake (1Co 10:16, Mat 10:22)]

Joh 17:17  Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth [“Let these sayings sink down into your ears“].

Luk 13:32  And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.

Luk 7:22  Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.

1Jn 4:17  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment [1Pe 4:17]: because as he is, so are we in this world [able to hear and to see spiritually].

If we are being dragged out of Babylon to the LORD in this age (Joh 6:44), we will be acknowledging that we were in there in the first place having been part of the harlot system (Eze 16:35). This is what we must hear when we come out of Babylon and be careful to not look down on that which we have been called out of by the grace of God and through the faith of Christ (Rom 11:18-22).

Mar 4:24  And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.

Isa 30:21  And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left [Rom 8:14, Joh 14:6].

Joh 8:47  He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

1Jn 4:1  Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world [symbolized by these musicians we read of in Daniel ” (Dan 3:5, Dan 3:7, Dan 3:10, Dan 3:15)].
1Jn 4:2  Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
1Jn 4:3  And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

Definitive scripture that describes the negative and positive use of the word hearing

1Jn 4:4  Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
1Jn 4:5  They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them [symbolized by these musicians we read of in Daniel and those who hear and respond to their message (Dan 3:5, Dan 3:7, Dan 3:10, Dan 3:15)].
1Jn 4:6  We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; [symbolized by these musicians we read of using the harp in these verses [Gen 4:21, Gen 31:27, 1Sa 10:5, 1Sa 16:16, 1Sa 16:23, 2Sa 6:5, 1Ki 10:12, 1Ch 13:8, 1Ch 15:16, 1Ch 15:21, 1Ch 15:28, 1Ch 16:5] he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
1Jn 4:7  Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God [1Jn 5:2-3]; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1Jn 4:8  He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
1Jn 4:9  In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live throughG1223 him [Php 2:12-13]. 
1Jn 4:10  Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 
1Jn 4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us [Joh 3:16, 1Jn 3:16], we ought also to love one another [to be a propitiation along with Christ for each other’s sins and the sins of the world (Lev 16:15, Lev 16:20-21, 1Jn 4:17)]. 
1Jn 4:12  No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us [Col 1:27].
1Jn 4:13  Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit [Rom 8:16, Rom 8:9].

With all these things in mind now, let’s look at the verses and the surrounding context in order to see the contrast with these two harp-like instruments and what they tell us about ourselves, both of the instruments that were made and set in the circumstances we see them for our sakes (1Co 10:11).

1Co 10:11  Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Here are the verses where the Kathros harp is found: (Dan 3:5, Dan 3:7, Dan 3:10, Dan 3:15). 

Dan 3:5  That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harpH7030, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:

Dan 3:7  Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harpH7030, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

Dan 3:10  Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harpH7030, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image: 

Dan 3:15  Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harpH7030, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?

We have discussed these verses before in a previous study on the instrument known as the Kehren, which was a study done on October 5th. Here is an extract from that study to remind us why the Kathros harp can also be seen as an instrument that has a negative connotation for us in God’s word. 

Here is the Strong’s definition of the word Kathros/harpH7030.

If we look at the root meanings of this word Kathros it is very revealing and shows the negative example of kindling a fire.

This fire that is kindled is one that incites the flesh and is earthly and devilish in its intent (Jas 3:15, Jud 1:19) (as opposed to the Kinnor harpH3658, as we will see later in the study). The one verse that the root word of Kathros/harpH7030 is found in Jeremiah 17:6 and reveals this:

Jer 17:5  Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Jer 17:6  For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places [H2788  root H2787] in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Jer 17:7  Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.

The context surrounding the word parchedH2788 shows us how we become cursed when we trust in men and not in God, that is how we become spiritually lacking because we either lean unto our own understanding or the counsel of carnal men and stop believing in God, as opposed to believing in God in order to work the works of God in this age (2Pe 2:17-18, Jud 1:12, Joh 6:28-29).

Jas 3:15  This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

Jud 1:19  These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. 

2Pe 2:17  These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. 
2Pe 2:18  For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

Jud 1:12  These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

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The second harp we are looking at tonight is the KinnorH3658 (harp) which points to scriptures that primarily discuss the positive effect of hearing the word of the Lord in this life (Gen 4:21, Gen 31:27, 1Sa 10:5, 1Sa 16:16, 1Sa 16:23, 2Sa 6:5, 1Ki 10:12, 1Ch 13:8, 1Ch 15:16, 1Ch 15:21, 1Ch 15:28, 1Ch 16:5).

I’ll go through a few of these verses to show the positive use of this word Kinnor harpH3658 starting with these two verses in Genesis (Gen 4:21, Gen 31:27). The context of the first use of the word Kinnor is seemingly a negative one, and it is for the flesh, but this story speaks of the redemption that will come through the line of Seth who is a type of the Christ and His Christ.

Gen 4:21  And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harpH3658 and organ.
Gen 4:22  And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.
Gen 4:23  And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. 
Gen 4:24  If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold [how we deal with the sin of Cain and Lamech within us is through Christ and His Christ represented by Seth, forgiving our brothers 70×7 (Mat 18:22)].
Gen 4:25  And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name SethH8352: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. 

Again in the next verse where we read of the word Kinnor (Gen 31:27), it may seem negative, but the whole story being brought out is in regard to our deliverance from sin. The first entry of the word Kinnor is symbolic of how we will be delivered from sin through Christ and His Christ, who is typified by Seth and Jacob.

Gen 31:26  And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword? 
Gen 31:27  Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harpH3658? 
Gen 31:28  And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing. 
Gen 31:29  It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

In these next three verses, (1Sa 10:5, 1Sa 16:16, 1Sa 16:23), there is a very distinct reference to prophecy, and the word is definitely being used in a positive context reminding us of the need to continue to encourage, enlighten, edify, comfort, and strengthen each other in the LORD (1Co 14:3).

1Sa 10:5  After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harpH3658, before them; and they shall prophesy:

1Sa 16:16  Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harpH3658: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.

1Sa 16:23  And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harpH3658, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.

1Co 14:3  But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.

In conclusion when we hear the word of God as Noah[H5146= ‘The same as H5118; resting place]  did “to the saving of his house” we find ourselves being made perfect, stablished and strengthened in Christ (1Pe 5:10). The ark that Noah built represents the church, the body of Christ that finally rested on mount Ararat [AraratH780 = “the curse reversed: precipitation of curse”], telling us that when we are blessed to have the faith of Christ and move with fear as Noah did, we will be resting in the Lord who is our strength (Heb 4:9-11). 

Gen 8:4  And the ark restedH5117  in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of AraratH780.

Heb 4:9  There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 
Heb 4:10  For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. 
Heb 4:11  Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. 

Christ alone enables us (Php 2:13) to go from glory to glory as we work out our own salvation with fear and trembling (2Co 3:18, Php 2:12). The curse of being in this sinful flesh is then reversed by being slaves to righteousness (Gal 3:13, Gal 2:20) and spending our remaining days on the earth fulfilling the will of God that was symbolized by the building of the Ark (1Pe 4:2). Noah’s name has its root meaning in the word “rest” and reminds us that the body of Christ is laboring to enter into His rest, a labor of love that can only be accomplished by grace through faith (Heb 12:6, Tit 2:12, Eph 2:8).

Heb 12:6  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 

Tit 2:12  Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Eph 2:8  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 

Eph 2:9  Not of works, lest any man should boast.

By not refusing him that speaks to us (Christ who speaks the law of Christ, a law fulfilled by bearing each other’s burdens  [Gal 6:2]), the curse of the law which is for the lawless is reversed (1Ti 1:9). God calls us out of Babylon and blesses His children to be able to hear the word of the LORD and rest in Christ in this age. Noah typifies for us how that rest is obtained (Heb 11:6-7, Heb 5:7, Heb 12:25, 1Jn 4:17), and mount Ararat symbolizes the end result of our moving with fear to the saving of our house.

Heb 11:6  But without faith it is impossible to please him: [Luk 22:32] for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Heb 11:7  By faith NoahG3575, being warned of God of things not seen as yet [Joh 20:29], moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith [Mat 24:37-39, 1Pe 1:12].

Luk 22:32  But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. 

Mat 24:37  But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Mat 24:38  For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
Mat 24:39  And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Heb 5:7  Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

Heb 12:25  See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

Gen 8:4  And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of AraratH780.

Next week, Lord willing, we will look at the last three stringed instruments in this section of musical instruments in the bible [Nebel – Viol, Psanterin – Psaltery, Sabbka – Sackbut]

The psaltery, a type of harp, may have had as many as ten strings (Psalm 33:2, 144:9). It was used when the Ark of the Covenant was moved (1Chronicles 15:28) as well as in worshiping God (25:6).

This instrument was used in the court of Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar. It may have resembled a dulcimer that had its strings struck with small hammers.

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Musical Instruments in the bible, Part 10 – Stringed Instruments

[Asor – Instrument of ten strings (Gittith)]

[Study Aired November 23, 2023]

Stringed Instruments

The only thing known about the Asor was that it was a ten-stringed instrument. It was likely a type of harp such as a zither or lute.

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These first two stringed instruments we’re going to study are both connected to the flesh, and we will look at the accompanying verses where they’re used to help us understand what it is telling us about our flesh that is both represented by the number ten and the instrument itself.

The ten strings of this first instrument, known as the asorH6218, symbolize the flesh of man that we are all trying to always bring into submission to Christ (2Co 10:5-6). With Christ in us, we are a somber and solemn people who acknowledge that we are that ten-stringed instrument which can’t go beyond ‘ten’ except for the grace of God. He knows how to take our empty marred vessels and make them into another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it (Jer 18:4), and even fill us with praise and fervent prayer that is likened unto “the harp.”

The second stringed instrument we will look at is called the gittithH1665 and was believed to have been retrieved by King David in the Philistine city of Gath. The symbolism is hard to miss, and even if the historical comments above are vague and without spiritual insight, the point remains true that Christ must give us victory over sin, which can be symbolized by king David, a type of Christ who retrieves [is retrieving] the musical instrument called ‘the gitteth’ from the Philistine city of Gath [Joh 8:36].

2Co 10:5  Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 
2Co 10:6  And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

Joh 8:36  If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

Christ must deliver the captive (2Ti 2:23-26) instruments of corruption that we all start off as, residing in the Philistine city of Gath. Through the hand of our Lord, we are then able, in time, to take captive every thought to the obedience of Christ as a stringed instrument that is now in tune with the mind of Christ and able to live in harmony with the rest of the body of Christ and be at peace with all men (2Co 10:5, Heb 12:14).

2Ti 2:23  But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. 
2Ti 2:24  And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, 
2Ti 2:25  In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; 
2Ti 2:26  And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. 

2Co 10:5  Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Heb 12:14  Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Christ must deliver the captives from captivity:

Luk 21:22  For these be the days of vengeance, [1Pe 4:17, 1Jn 4:17, Rom 2:4] that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
Luk 21:23  But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people  [within and without].
Luk 21:24  And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: [Rev 13:9-10] and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled [Rev 11:2-5 – after God’s elect are judged and found worthy to be in the blessed and holy first resurrection, then the time of the Gentiles begins and will be fulfilled in the lake of fire, great white throne judgment].

Rev 13:9  If any man have an ear, let him hear.
Rev 13:10  He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

Rev 11:2  But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Rev 11:3  And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. 
Rev 11:4  These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
Rev 11:5  And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.

Eph 4:8  Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity  captive, and gave gifts unto men. 

2Ti 2:26  And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. 

2Ti 3:6  For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women [churches of Babylon we are called out of] laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

Rom 7:23  But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

2Co 10:5  Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 

Rev 13:10  He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity [2Ti 2:26]: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints [The sword is the word of God that kills our old man as we decrease and Christ increases within us. We are able to “killeth with the sword” only because we have been decreasing as we die daily by the sword of God’s word, His spirit that makes it possible for us to die daily (Rom 2:24, Php 2:12-13)].

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Here are the three verses where we find the word AsorH6218 being used, (Psa 33:2, Psa 92:3, Psa 144:9), and there are a number of expressions that are used in the context of these verses which tell us something about our relationship with our heavenly Father and Christ, made known when the AsorH6218 is in use. 

In Psalm 33:2 we are told to do this:

Psa 33:1  Rejoice in the LORD, [Php 4:4, Rev 19:7] O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright. 
Psa 33:2  Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten stringsH6218 (“Asor“).
Psa 33:3  Sing unto him a new song; play skilfullyH3190 with a loud noise. 
Psa 33:4  For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth  [Col 1:27, Php 2:12-13, Joh 14:6].

Rejoicing in the Lord is a way in which we praise God, and give Him thanks for the victory over the sin within us. When we play an instrument of ten strings skillfullyH3190, God’s word is telling us that we can have dominion over the flesh through Christ, but we go on to perfection only on the third day (Exo 15:1, Rev 14:2, Rev 15:2, Luk 17:10, Luk 13:32).

Gen 4:7  If thou doest wellH3190, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

In Psalm 92:1-6 we are told to do this:

Psa 92:1  A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
Psa 92:2  To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,
Psa 92:3  Upon an instrument of ten stringsH6218 (“Asor”), and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn soundH1902.

Psa 92:4  For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands [Psa 139:14-16, Eph 2:10]. 
Psa 92:5  O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep. 
Psa 92:6  A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.]

Psa 139:14  I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. 
Psa 139:15  My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 
Psa 139:16  Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

Psa 139:16 Your eyes saw my embryo, And my days, all of them were written upon Your scroll; The days were formed When there was not one of them.”[CLV] [author and finisher of our faith, of our books (Heb 5:9, Heb 12:2)]

Eph 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

We are the “ten strings”H6218 that God is mercifully working with, and we acknowledge we are nothing more than instruments in His hands which He likens to “psaltery”H5035, and it is in this place “the harp”H3658 can make its “solemn sound” that the Lord is forming through those who sigh and cry a solemn and somber cry (1Pe 5:7-9) in this age for the abominations He is allowing to unfold (Eze 9:4).

In Psalm 144 we are told to do this:

Psa 144:9  I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten stringsH6218 (“Asor”) will I sing praises unto thee.

This “new song” is presented nine times in the KJV (Psa 33:3, Psa 40:3, Psa 96:1, Psa 98:1, Psa 144:9, Psa 149:1, Isa 42:10, Rev 5:9, Rev 14:3), and it is in the last instance mentioned, with its surrounding verses, that we are also told ‘no man could learn that song but those which were redeemed from the earth… not defiled… virgins… which follow the Lamb… redeemed from among men… firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb… no guile… without fault before the throne of God.’

Rev 14:1  And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads. 
Rev 14:2  And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: 
Rev 14:3  And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. 
Rev 14:4  These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. 
Rev 14:5  And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.

As our heavens are cleansed of false doctrines, these false riches are replaced with the true riches of knowing God and Christ and His body (Joh 17:3), and we can now sing a new song of praise, meaning we are able to worship God in spirit and in truth now that all things are new in Christ (Joh 4:23, 2Co 5:17) having had our heavens cleansed of all filthiness (2Co 7:1). 

All of this is worship unfolding within the earnest condition (Eph 1:14, Rom 8:23, Rom 8:19, Php 1:20) we are in  “upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings”, the ten now representing the positive relation of the number ten being fulfilled in a life that is being led by the spirit of God (Rom 8:14) and glorifying Him with all our thoughts and actions which power He is giving us through Christ to bring into subjection unto him (Rom 8:16, 1Co 10:31, 2Co 10:5).

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We will now explore the use of the Hebrew word GittithH1665, that is found in the first verse of each Psalm this Strong’s number is found (Psa 8:1, Psa 81:1, Psa 84:1).

The word GittithH1665 is both “a wine-press” and a “harp”, according to Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong. There is definitely a correlation between these Psalms that helps us understand the process of judgment God’s elect have been going through, and are going through, and will be going through, as our Father grants us to be the first grapes, or kind of first fruits (Jas 1:18), being dragged to this “wine-press” which represents what it means to be connected to the Vine who crushes those grapes (Joh 15:5, Mat 21:44). Christ is working this wine-press in our lives all according to the counsel of our Father’s will (Eph 1:11, Col 1:27, Joh 5:1 , Joh 12:29, Heb 13:8).

Psa 8:1  To the chief Musician upon GittithH1665, A Psalm of David. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. 
Psa 8:2  Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. 
Psa 8:3  When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; 
Psa 8:4  What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 
Psa 8:5  For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
Psa 8:6  Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: 

In Psalm 8:1 we learn of the excellency of God in what He does in His workmanship which we are; a workmanship that is typified by the earth and the heavens (Psa 8:1). The earth is the church (Jer 22:29), and the heavens represent where Christ abides within us as our hope of glory (Col 1:27, Heb 9:23).

Psa 81:1  To the chief Musician upon GittithH1665, A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. 
Psa 81:2  Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. 
Psa 81:3  Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. 
Psa 81:4  For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. 
Psa 81:5  This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
Psa 81:6  I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

In the second verse that uses the word GittithH1665 (Psa 81:1), we see how that workmanship of God offers up the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving (1Pe 2:5, Heb 13:5, 2Co 4:15, 2Co 9:11, Php 4:6, Col 4:2-3) to our Creator, “unto the God of Jacob” (Psa 81:1).

1Pe 2:5  Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Heb 13:5  Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

2Co 4:15  For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

2Co 9:11  Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.

Php 4:6  Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

Col 4:2  Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
Col 4:3  Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bond

Psa 84:1  To the chief Musician upon GittithH1665, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
Psa 84:2  My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. 
Psa 84:3  Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God. 
Psa 84:4  Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah. 
Psa 84:5  Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.

In the third use of the word GittithH1665 (Psa 84:1), we learn of the longing and groaning that comes forth from the body of Christ because of the judgment that is upon us as fellow laborers in Christ (1Co 3:9, Mat 9:37-38, Rev 6:11) and the fruit of having a strong desire to know God that only comes about through that judgment (Isa 26:9, Psa 84:12).

The sons of Korah (ref. vs 1) are Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph [three sons, representing the process of judgment on the new man typified by Korah’s sons], and they formed the tribes known as the Korahites who were the children of Korah (1Ch 9:19). Korah was a Levite who rebelled against Moses, and the two hundred and fifty men who rebelled with Korah represent our old man who must be swallowed up by the earth and die (Num 16:2, Num 16:19–30). The number [250] represents a multiple of the number five, which is grace that is experienced when we die and are baptized into Christ’s death (Tit 2:12, Heb 12:6, Rom 6:3). Korah and the men of renown within us must die [typifying rebellious Babylon in our flesh]. The seed must die [250 men of renown] in order to bring forth fruit (Joh 12:24), and that fruit is represented by the sons of Korah found in 1 Chronicles 6:31-48, “whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest” (1Ch 6:31). It is only when we are granted to rest in the Lord that these works can be accomplished in the body of Christ by our Lord (Php 2:12-13, Col 1:27).

Isa 26:9  With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

Psa 84:12  O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

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Next week, Lord willing, we will look at the next two stringed instruments in our study of instruments in the bible, the Kathros or Harp, and Kinor which is another type of harp.

Hebrew: Kathros
KJV Name: Harp
Strong’s: #H7030
References: Daniel 3:5, 7, 10, 15

Found only in the book of Daniel, the kathros (an Aramaic word) was a stringed instrument played at Nebuchadnezzar’s court. It was possibly a type of lyre.

Hebrew: Kinnor
KJV Name: Harp
Strong’s: #H3658
References: Genesis 4:21, 31:27, 1Samuel 10:5, 16:16, 23, 2Samuel 6:5, 1Kings 10:12, 1Chronicles 13:8, 15:16, 21, 28, 16:5, etc.

The kinnor has the distinction of being the first musical instrument recorded in Scripture. Its creation is credited to a man named Jubal who was of Cain’s lineage (Genesis 4:16 – 21). The kinnor is sometimes referred to as David’s harp.

This instrument is small enough to be played while walking (1 Samuel 10:5) and made of wood. Its strings were crafted from sheep tripe. David, when an evil spirit bothered King Saul, would play his kinnor and chase the demon away (1 Samuel 16:23)! The kinnor was used to worship and praise God (2 Samuel 6:5, Psalm 43:4), utter prophecies (1 Chronicles 25:3), and bid farewell to loved ones (Genesis 31:27).

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Musical Instruments in the bible, Part 9 – Percussion Instruments [Paamon-Bells; Toph-Timbrel/Tabret]

[Study Aired November 16, 2023]

The Hebrew word toph is translated 10 times as “timbrel” and eight times as “tabret.” The toph, the oldest and most popular means of percussion, was a musical instrument of the drum kind. The 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, in its section on the timbrel and tabret, states the following:

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In this study we’ll look at the last two percussion instruments in this part of the series. Starting with the Paamon which is a bell, and lastly the Toph which is the Timbrel or Tabret. 

The only two areas in the bible where the Paamon is mentioned is in Exodus 28:33-34 and 39:25-26.

Exo 28:33  And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bellsH6472 of gold between them round about: 
Exo 28:34  A golden bellH6472 and a pomegranate, a golden bellH6472 and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about. 

Exo 39:25  And they made bellsH6472 of pure gold, and put the bellsH6472 between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates; 
Exo 39:26  A bellH6472 and a pomegranate, a bellH6472 and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the LORD commanded Moses.

As it is Aaron who typifies the elect for whom these garments are made, the ‘blue, purple, and scarlet, that are round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about’ of Exodus 28:33 typify for us what our service in the Lord is all about (Exo 28:1-3). These garments represent the righteousness of the saints and how we need to be armed with His righteousness in order to overcome as we wage spiritual warfare in this life (Rev 19:7-9, Eph 6:10-12).

Exo 28:3  And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

Rev 19:7  Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Rev 19:8  And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Rev 19:9  And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.

Eph 6:10  Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Eph 6:11  Put on the whole armour of God [“Aaron’s garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office  –  for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints” (Rom 13:14, Gal 3:27)], that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 
Eph 6:12  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 

Rom 13:12  The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Rom 13:13  Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. 
Rom 13:14  But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Gal 3:26  For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 
Gal 3:27  For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

What the body of Christ has to experience in order to “minister unto me in the priest’s office” is symbolized by what is seen at the hem of the garment of the priest (Exo 28:33-34), “And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bellsH6472 of gold between them round about: A golden bellH6472 and a pomegranate, a golden bellH6472 and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.”

The three colors, “blue, and of purple, and of scarlet” are round about the hem to symbolize the ongoing process of judgment that is upon the body of Christ (1Pe 4:17). Blue is first mentioned as God declares the end from the beginning and the end of the thing is better than the beginning (Ecc 7:8). So actually from our earthly perspective we learn that we are beasts (Ecc 3:18) which start off by being dominated by our scarlet flesh that is deceitful and desperately wicked (Jer 17:3) and through the bruising or much tribulation that we go through in this life (Act 14:22), symbolized by the purple. We cease from sinning (1Pe 4:1-3, 2Pe 2:14) resulting in our being led by the spirit (Rom 8:14-16) which is represented by the color blue. The blue is the righteousness of Christ, the linen we put on as we go through this process of judgment which requires that we die daily (1Co 15:31).

1Pe 4:1  Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; 
1Pe 4:2  That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
1Pe 4:3  For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

2Pe 2:14  Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: 

The robe has “A bellH6472 and a pomegranate, a bellH6472 and a pomegranate” around the hem. The bell is golden and symbolizes the mind of Christ that is being purified within the body of Christ as His faith (Eph 2:8) is tried and tested in this life (1Pe 1:7) through a sanctification process (Joh 17:17). We are being cleansed by the blood of Christ, and it is an ongoing process around the hem, and it can only begin by our being dragged to Christ by our Father (Joh 6:44) so we can touch the hem of His garment as we die daily (1Co 15:31) from the twelve-year issue of blood (Mat 9:20) that represents the sinful Adamic flesh foundation that we all start with (Mat 9:20-22, Eph 2:2). The pomegranate is red and has many seeds, but those many seeds come from the same one seed which is Christ (Gal 3:16) who is doing this work within His body. That is a ministry of reconciliation which is the new foundation being built upon Christ, the true foundation that all men will come to learn of through the church (2Co 5:18, Ezr 3:10-12, Eph 2:20, Mat 16:18).

Joh 17:17  Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

Mat 9:20  And, behold, a woman [who represents the church, the body of Christ (Col 1:24)], which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: 
Mat 9:21  For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. 
Mat 9:22  But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour. 

Gal 3:16  Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. [many seeds make up the pomegranate but it is the same one seed Christ within us who is our hope of glory within the pomegranate (Col 1:27). It is the entire body of Christ [many seeds made up of the same seed Jesus Christ His body (Col 1:24)] therefore that takes part in the redemptive process as we come under the wings of Christ who is our stronghold against the powers and principalities in the heaven against which we wrestle (Mat 23:36-39)] 

2Co 5:18  And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

Ezr 3:10  And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel. 
Ezr 3:11  And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid. 
Ezr 3:12  But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy: 

Eph 2:20  And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone [Jesus Christ the one preeminent seed that the church is built upon];

Mat 16:18  And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it [Peter who represents the body of Christ that is “built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner”].

The word “Paamon” means “bell”, and when the priest moves, you hear the bell around the hem, which tells us having faith without works typified by that movement is dead faith (Jas 2:26). The bell has to be struck or moved or stroked in order to bring forth sound, and Christ tells us to let our light shine before men so that we may glorify our Father in heaven through those works (Mat 5:16).

Jas 2:26  For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. 

Mat 5:14  Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
Mat 5:15  Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
Mat 5:16  Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

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The next instrument we will look at is called TophH8596 which is a Timbrel or a Tabret.

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This percussion instrument is mentioned in these verses:  Gen 31:27, Exo 15:20, Jdg 11:34, 1Sa 10:5, 1Sa 18:6, 2Sa 6:5, 1Ch 13:8, Job 21:12, Psa 81:2, Psa 149:3, Psa 150:4, Isa 5:12, Isa 24:8, Isa  30:32,  Jer 31:4, Eze 28:13. The first verse that is mentioned on any subject is normally very revealing, so we will look at that first verse, and the second one as well, to see what correlation we may find with the surrounding context. 

In this first instance, Jacob is fleeing away from Laban who pursues him, typifying how when we come out of Babylon, we are pursued by our own flesh which we are overcoming, and by those who do not want us to leave their company, more specifically their way of life, our former conversation (2Co 6:17-18, Eph 2:3). At the very least, the worldly churches we come out of, typified by Laban, expect us to follow the mantra, “In Essentials Unity, In Non-Essentials Liberty, In All Things Charity“, and they will determine what is non-essential to be sure, leading to our not obeying the commandments of God if we were to follow after them. 

This first use of the word “tabret” is used in the negative sense, pointing to a celebration of the flesh and the many wonderful works that Jacob did when he spent those years laboring in the house of Laban. There is a parallel example of that departing from Babylon with the next verse that uses the word TophH8596 that will witness to this idea of coming out of Babylon as was the case with Jacob leaving Laban’s house.

Gen 31:27  Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabretH8596, and with harp? 
Gen 31:28  And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing. [the negative example of kissing the son as opposed to this verse (Psa 2:12)]
Gen 31:29  It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt [Joh 19:11]: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. 
Gen 31:30  And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods? 
Gen 31:31  And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me. 
Gen 31:32  With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.

In this next story we see Miriam [type of the church] the sister of Aaron with a timbrel in her hand, who represents the elect in this instance, telling all the women who represent Babylon this wonderful message of deliverance which is the gospel message we preach, telling all men (Col 1:27-29) that we have been delivered by the mighty hand of our Lord out of which no man can take us (Joh 18:9, Rom 8:35). In both stories that we’ve examined, there is a type and shadow event being told connected to fleeing from sin, or from Babylon, the first being with Jacob fleeing from Laban and now Miriam rejoicing before all for the victory of coming out of the Red sea which represents our coming out and fleeing from sin, as we come out of Babylon.

Exo 15:20  And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrelH8596 in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrelsH8596 and with dances. 
Exo 15:21  And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. 
Exo 15:22  So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. 
Exo 15:23  And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. 
Exo 15:24  And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? 
Exo 15:25  And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,
Exo 15:26  And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee. 
Exo 15:27  And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters. 

Col 1:27  To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 
Col 1:28  Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: 
Col 1:29  Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

The vow of Jephthah (Jdg 11:34)

The last verse we will look at with the word TophH8596 is found in the story of Jephthah (Jdg 11:34). In this story, Jephthah’s daughter was dedicated to the Lord to be a virgin all her life because of Jephthah’s vow he made in haste.

Jdg 11:30  And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, 
Jdg 11:31  Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD’S, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering. 
Jdg 11:32  So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands. 
Jdg 11:33  And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel. 
Jdg 11:34  And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrelsH8596 and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter. 
Jdg 11:35  And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back. 
Jdg 11:36  And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon. 
Jdg 11:37  And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows. 
Jdg 11:38  And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains. 
Jdg 11:39  And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, 
Jdg 11:40  That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

Making this seemingly innocent vow was akin to Uzza touching the ark with the best of intentions to steady it, resulting in his death (1Ch 13:9-10). The daughter of Jephthah would remain a virgin the rest of her days because of the vow Jephthah made and represents the sacrifice we make in order to follow Christ. God could have prevented her from being the first one he met, but she was sacrificed as a living sacrifice, unlike Uzza who was sacrificed to remind us today that our old man has to be put off in order to be obedient to God. That obedience is going to be found in the body of Christ because we are bound to the altar, and God has sworn that which He has started in us will be finished through Christ (Psa 118:27-29, Heb 6:17-20). What looks so terrible for the flesh, and it is, is telling God’s elect something positive about the certainty of God’s plan going forward by His great power and might that is working all things out according to the counsel of His own will, including the death of Uzza and the life of Jephthah’s daughter that became a type of a living sacrifice for us, like the scapegoat that was let go into the wilderness of Leviticus 16:10.

Many believe this sacrifice of Jephtha’s daughter was by killing her. However, such a sacrifice would not have been honored by God. She was dedicated to God just as Samuel was (1Sa 1:28), so she was never to marry and have children, thus it says she bewailed her virginity (not her death) “and she knew no man” (Jdg 11:39.

Luk 14:24  For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper. 
Luk 14:25  And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them, 
Luk 14:26  If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 
Luk 14:27  And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 

1Ch 13:9  And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
1Ch 13:10  And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God. 

Luk 14:26  If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 
Luk 14:27  And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

Psa 118:27  God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
Psa 118:28  Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee. 
Psa 118:29  O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. 

Heb 6:17  Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: 
Heb 6:18  That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 
Heb 6:19  Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; 
Heb 6:20  Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

2Co 4:15  For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

Next week we’ll begin looking at the stringed instruments found in the bible.

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Musical Instruments in the bible, Part 8 – Percussion Instruments [Meziltayim – Cymbals]

[Study Aired November 9, 2023]

This week we will be looking at the second percussion instruments mentioned in the bible, [Meziltayim – Cymbals, Paamon – Bells, Toph – Timbrel/Tabret, Tselatsal (possibly Zelzelim) – Cymbals]:

There is a common denominator in how each percussion instrument is used to praise God as we press toward Him (Php 3:14). Psalm 95 captures this point perfectly (Psa 95:1-11), and reminds us that our sacrifice of thanksgiving and praise to God is connected to hearts and minds that have been worked with as God’s workmanship of being dragged to Christ (Eph 2:10, Joh 6:44).

Psa 95:1  O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. 
Psa 95:2  Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. 
Psa 95:3  For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
Psa 95:4  In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
Psa 95:5  The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
Psa 95:6  O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker. 
Psa 95:7  For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
Psa 95:8  Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 
Psa 95:9  When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. 
Psa 95:10  Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: (Mat 24:34) [we are going to naturally be that generation who grieves God unless we are granted to experience His chastening and scourging in our lives (Heb 12:6)]
Psa 95:11  Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest. 

“This generation” undergoing the dragging is then able to offer praise and thanks to God for the wonderful works He has done unto the children of men (Psa 107:1-28). Those wonderful works are primarily about how God changes our hearts and softens them through the storms of this life, the much tribulation that we must go through in order to inherit the kingdom of God (Act 14:22).

Psa 107:1  O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. 
Psa 107:2  Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; 
Psa 107:3  And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south. [the land is our bodies that the Lord delivers us from and it’s all the land that is deceitful and desperately wicked, the east, the west, the north, and the south.]
Psa 107:4  They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in [Heb 11:13-14].
Psa 107:5  Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. 
Psa 107:6  Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses. 
Psa 107:7  And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation [Gal 4:26].
Psa 107:8  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and foru his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psa 107:9  For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness. 
Psa 107:10  Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron; 
Psa 107:11  Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High: 
Psa 107:12  Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help. 
Psa 107:13  Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. 
Psa 107:14  He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. 
Psa 107:15  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psa 107:16  For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder. 
Psa 107:17  Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted [Php 3:9].
Psa 107:18  Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death. 
Psa 107:19  Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses. 
Psa 107:20  He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. 
Psa 107:21  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psa 107:22  And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing. 
Psa 107:23  They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; 
Psa 107:24  These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep [Joh 17:13-15] 
Psa 107:25  For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. 
Psa 107:26  They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
Psa 107:27  They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end. 
Psa 107:28  Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. 
Psa 107:29  He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. 
Psa 107:30  Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven [1Pe 4:1-2].
Psa 107:31  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

The LORD’S goodness is shown in His favor toward His children, and that favor or grace is considered as such because of the life-changing work God does on our hearts and minds as we are led to repentance, which shows His goodness toward His children (Rom 2:4). Not despising His goodness that leads us to repentance is what happens when God grants us that we “Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness” of Psalm 95:8.

Rom 2:4  Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

Psa 95:8  Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

The first mention of the “Meziltayim” or ‘Cymbal’H4700 is found in 1 Chronicles 13:8 where David and all Israel played before God “with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.” Again, as we saw in last week’s study, it is at the threshingfloor of Chidon that “Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled” mentioned in the next verse (1Ch 13:9). It is when our old man, symbolized by the death of Uzza, is taken out of the way [our old man whom God swares will not enter into His rest (Psa 95:11)] that we can be zealous toward God (2Co 7:10-11) in our service and sacrifice of praise toward him, symbolized by king David and Israel who “with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbalsH4700, and with trumpets” praised God.

2Co 7:10  For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. 
2Co 7:11  For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

The cymbalsH4700 are really symbols of our gratefulness for God not letting go of us as He works in our hearts and minds as a new creation that understands why we must be judged (2Co 5:17, 1Pe 4:17).

2Co 5:17  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new [through judgment (1Pe 4:17)].

Mar 10:6  But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female [types of the new creature].

Mar 13:19  For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation [the judgment that is needed to form the new creature] which God created unto this time, neither shall be.

Rom 1:20  For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: [“God made them male and female” to typify for us how “his eternal power and Godhead” is being fashioned in the new creature at that day (Joh 14:20)].

Rom 8:22  For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now [the whole creation groans for the elect’s sake who groan within ourselves as well, “waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body” as a new creature – “And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body (Rom 8:23)“; this groaning without of the world represents the groaning within ourselves of the manchild who is being formed by God”]

2Pe 3:4  And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. [The world is blinded to the new creature being formed within the body of Christ, and everything just seems to be status quo with no recognition of “his coming” (Mat 24:38, 1Jn 4:2-6)]

Rev 3:14  And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; [Christ has preeminence in all things (Col 1:18) as the first created Son of God, and new creature formed in Adamic flesh (Joh 3:18, Heb 6:20)]

The new creation is now able to worship God in spirit and in truth [Joh 4:24, Joh 14:17, Rom 8:9], rejoicing always in the Lord and again I say rejoice [Php 4:4]. The “double tinklers” is a witness to that joy we now have in the Lord, even in the midst of our trials and much tribulation [Col 1:24].

Here are a few other verses with the word “Mezilayim” in it, to help us see a little more of what it symbolizes for us today.

1Ch 15:16  And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbalsH4700, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.

1Ch 15:19  So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbalsH4700 of brass; 

1Ch 15:28  Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbalsH4700, making a noise with psalteries and harps.

1Ch 16:5  Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbalsH4700;

It was AsaphH623 who sang and made a sound with the cymbals. His name means “collector” and is taken from the root number H622 which means “to gather for any purpose.” The gathering or assembling or collecting of peoples who come together in these assemblies of the church in the wilderness typifies our coming together often in the body of Christ, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together (Heb 10:25-28). These musicians did not just decide of their own accord that they would pick up an instrument and start praising God, but serve to show us that there is order in God’s kingdom right down to the finest detail, including how musicians were anointed and appointed for that joy-filled task (1Co 14:40, 1Ch 15:16, 1Ch 16:5).

Heb 10:28  He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:  [type and shadow event that tells us that those who despise the law of Christ (Gal_6:2) will eventually be judged by the church who are represented by the two witnesses in chapter eleven of the book of revelation.]

The singers “Heman, Asaph, and Ethan” were appointed to sound with the cymbalsH4700 of brass (1Ch 15:19) and these three men symbolize that process of judgment we discussed earlier that makes us zealous and filled with the sacrifice of praise on our lips to our God as we come out of Babylon (Heb 13:15). As they were doing this, we also read in 1 Chronicles 15:28, “Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbalsH4700, making a noise with psalteries and harps.” This event is showing us that we can’t “come out of her my people” unless we are going with the ark, representing the life of Christ in us (Rom 8:9, 1Co 3:16).

These events in Israel represent the body of Christ being judged and learning to praise God as we get comfortable in the fiery trials that those judgments bring, and so the next thing we read that transpires after these symbolic events makes perfect sense in the spirit and is a shadow of how the world or the churches of the world will hate the elect (1Ch 15:29): Michal the daughter of Saul despised David for the joy he had in his heart as he served the Lord, all typifying for us how we will be hated by all men for His name’s sake (Mat 10:22).

1Ch 15:28  Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbalsH4700, making a noise with psalteries and harps.
1Ch 15:29  And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter  of Saul [churches of Babylon operating in the flesh] looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.

Mat 10:22  And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

It’s instructive to note, with these last few verses below, how there were people appointed and separated for this service of facilitating worship of God (1Ch 25:1, 1Ch 25:6, 2Ch 5:12-13, 2Ch 29:25, Ezr 3:10, Neh 12:27), and it does symbolize how we are a many-membered, diverse body of Christ, with different parts, different functions, or different instruments, but all with the same spirit (1Co 12:12-13):

1Ch 25:1  Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbalsH4700: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:

1Ch 25:6  All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbalsH4700, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king’s order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.

2Ch 5:12  Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbalsH4700 and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:) 
2Ch 5:13  It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbalsH4700 and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;

2Ch 29:25 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbalsH4700, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.

Now let’s look at the effect this order had on the church in the wilderness, which symbolizes the Christian churches of Babylon today out of which the body of Christ comes (1Ch 16:41-43):

1Ch 16:41  And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen,[Mat 22:14] who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever; 
1Ch 16:42  And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbalsH4700 for those that should make a sound, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were porters.
1Ch 16:43  And all the people departed every man to his house: and David returned to bless his house.

If we underline the various roles of all the different people who prophesied in these old covenant stories, it brings to our attention the continual need for true prophecy within the body of Christ today, which is what all those ancients were doing for our sakes, in a type and shadow manner (1Co 10:11, 1Co 14:4), starting with 1 Chronicles 25:1-6.

1Ch 25:1  Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbalsH4700: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:
1Ch 25:2  Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the hands of Asaph, which prophesied according to the order of the king [typifying Christ who is our head who directs the body in all things (Rom 8:28)].
1Ch 25:3  Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD [1Ch 16:8, 2Sa 22:48-51, Psa 30:4].
1Ch 25:4  Of Heman: the sons of Heman; Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamtiezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth: 
1Ch 25:5  All these were the sons of Heman the king’s seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
1Ch 25:6  All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbalsH4700, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king’s order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.

1Ch 16:8  Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people. 

2Sa 22:48  It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me, 
2Sa 22:49  And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man. [our old man who does violence against the word of God when we are yet carnal and shamefully not able to rightly divide the truth (2Ti 2:15)]
2Sa 22:50  Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.
2Sa 22:51  He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.[type of this seed the seed of Christ (Gal 3:16)]

Psa 30:4  Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

Seventeen of many other verses that say give thanks unto the Lord:

Psa 92:1  A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: 

Psa 97:12  Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. 

Psa 105:1  O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people. 

Psa 106:1  Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Psa 106:47  Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.

Psa 107:1  O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Psa 118:1  O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever.

Psa 118:29  O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Psa 119:62  At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments. 

Psa 122:4  Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.

Psa 136:1  O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psa 136:2  O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psa 136:3  O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Psa 136:26  O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Psa 140:13  Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.

Rom 16:4  Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.

Eph 1:16  Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; 

Col 1:3  We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

1Th 1:2  We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;

1Th 5:18  In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

2Th 2:13  But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: [Tit 2:14, 1Pe 2:9] 

Tit 2:14  Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

1Pe 2:9  But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

2Ch 5:12  Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being
arrayed in white linen, having cymbalsH4700 and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets🙂 

Christ and his Christ is represented by the hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets, which represent judgment that has a process starting in the east and ending in the west (Mat 24:27).

Mat 24:27  For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

2Ch 5:13  It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbalsH4700 and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;

When we lift our voices together in unity, in singleness of mind, with the one mind of Christ thanking God for his mercy toward us, the house will be “filled with a cloud (Heb 12:1), even the house of the LORD”.

2Ch 29:22  So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar. 
2Ch 29:23  And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them: 
2Ch 29:24  And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel [1Co 15:22].
2Ch 29:25  And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbalsH4700, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.

It is after the priest, representing the elect, “received the blood”, meaning the word of God that is sprinkled on the altar which is the cross, the place where we lay our lives down for each other, that we then see the introduction of “the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbalsH4700, with psalteries, and with harps”. Likewise we’re told that what preceded this worship was “when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar. And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them.” This all tells us that the death of our old man, the putting off of our flesh, as the first to die to sin and be alive in Christ, is all correlated with these old covenant sacrifices that, when they are accomplished, can then cover the altar or the cross to which every man in his appointed time will be drawn.

We will end off our study with these last two verses that point to the truth that it is after laying down the foundation of the temple, representing foundation of the apostles and the prophets that God says we build on today (Eph 2:20-22), the priests are then “in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbalsH4700“, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.” The same message is being repeated in Nehemiah 12:27 where a dedication was being made for the wall of Jerusalem resulting in the same “thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbalsH4700, psalteries, and with harps.”

Ezr 3:10  And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbalsH4700, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel. 

Neh 12:27  And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbalsH4700, psalteries, and with harps. 

Eph 2:20  And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Eph 2:21  In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: 
Eph 2:22  In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. 

Joh 4:23  But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

Next week, Lord willing, we will look at the last two percussion instruments, the Paamon or Bell and the Toph which is a Timbrel/Tabret:

Tiny bells and pomegranates were attached to the lower hem of the High Priest’s ephod. Although not loud, the bells signaled his location in the temple’s sanctuary.

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Musical Instruments in the bible, Part 7

Percussion Instruments, Part 1 – [Menana – Cornets (Sistrum)]

[Study Aired November 2, 2023]

This week we will be looking at the first of five different percussion instruments in the bible, the menana:

  • Menana – Cornets (Sistrum)
    1. Meziltayim – Cymbals
    2. Paamon – Bells
    3. Toph – Timbrel / Tabret
  • Tselatsal (possibly Zelzelim) – Cymbals

Starting with this excerpt from https://www.biblestudy.org/bible-study-by-topic/musical-instruments.html:

Percussion

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The first and only mention of the Menana is found in (2 Samuel 6:5). 

 

2Sa 6:5  And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornetsH4517, and on cymbals. 
2Sa 6:6  And when they came to Nachon’s threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.
2Sa 6:7  And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God. 

The context in which this instrument appears in the bible is where we learn of Uzzah who “put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it” (2Sa 6:5-6). Uzzah represents that carnal part of us that naturally wants to walk to the beat of our own drummer, the way that seems right to a man, but the ends thereof are the ways of death (Pro 14:12). Uzzah tried to steady the ark that had been shaken by the oxen carrying it, which kindled God’s wrath against him (2Sa 6:7). These are the sounds that would have been ringing in his ear at that time “on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornetsH4517 and on cymbals” (2Sa 6:5). This event unfolded at Nachon’s threshingfloor, as it is tied to repentance, which is what we experience when our old man is sifted like wheat as opposed to our spiritual life in Christ. Satan desires to destroy and sift us like wheat but cannot if we are in the Lord’s hands in this life (Joh 6:39). In the positive sense, Uzzah’s death represents a new beginning for those who are judged first in this life and carries with it a sobering reminder of the severity and goodness of God (1Pe 4:17, Rom 11:22). Our ability to sin is as natural as the knee-jerk reaction of Uzzah to steady the ark, who meant well but by those actions brought God’s wrath upon him. We pray as the body of Christ, “And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil” so that our thoughts and actions are pleasing to God and not going in the way of Cain (Psa 19:14, Jud 1:11).

Pro 14:12  There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Rom 11:22  Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

Luk 11:4  And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

Psa 19:14  Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

Jud 1:11  Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

In the negative sense, the death of Uzzah represents the death of our potential growing life in Christ (Heb 6:3-6), because of our yet carnal mind that wants to help steady God’s plan and purpose with our own carnal actions and self-righteous reasonings (Php 3:9) as opposed to operating by the faith of Christ Who is our hope of glory within (Gal 2:20, Col 1:27) whose spirit gives us the power and ability to handle the holy things (Rev 11:3, Heb 13:10) by overcoming our carnal nature that is naturally against or contrary to the things of the spirit (Rom 11:20-26 , Gal 5:17, Rom 16:17, Col 1:27). 

Heb 6:3  And this will we do, if God permit.
Heb 6:4  For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 
Heb 6:5  And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 
Heb 6:6  If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

Rom 11:20  Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
Rom 11:21  For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. 
Rom 11:22  Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. 
Rom 11:23  And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
Rom 11:24  For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
Rom 11:25  For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
Rom 11:26  And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 

Gal 5:17  For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Rom 16:17  Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

This story of Uzzah was written for our sakes (1Co 10:11-12) teaching us that we are all able, in an instance like these oxen did, to shake and disrupt the ark of the covenant that typifies Christ in us as our hope of glory within, our rest into which we are labouring to enter (Heb 12:14-15, Heb 4:9-12). 

1Co 10:11  Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. [even the things the beasts were caused of God to do (Eph 1:11)]
1Co 10:12  Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

Heb 12:14  Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
Heb 12:15  Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

Heb 4:9  There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 
Heb 4:10  For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. [not trying to steady the ark with our own hands]
Heb 4:11  Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest [being found with his righteousness and not our own (Php 3:9)], lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief [unbelief being connected to when we have not “ceased from his own works” (Joh 6:28-29, Php 2:12-13)]. 
Heb 4:12  For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

The principle lesson in this story of Uzzah, among many other lessons, is that our help comes from the Lord alone who gives us dominion over the beasts that we are, even when we stumble and fall as we are promised we will do (Pro 24:16). Satan wants to sift us like wheat, and deceive the very elect if it were possible as he tried to do with Christ (Luk 22:31, Mat 24:24, Mat 4:6), but God’s elect are promised that none can take them out of His hand (Joh 18:9) and that we will be more than conquerors through the love of God found in Christ being shed abroad in our hearts (Luk 22:31-32, Rom 8:37-39, Rom 5:5). The Lord is working in the body of Christ to that end to stabilize our relationship with one another in the Father and the Son (Joh 14:20, 1Pe 5:8-10, Joh 17:3).

Joh 14:20  At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

Luk 22:31  And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
Luk 22:32  But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.

Rom 8:37  Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 
Rom 8:38  For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 
Rom 8:39  Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1Pe 5:8  Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
1Pe 5:9  Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
1Pe 5:10  But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus [Joh 17:3], after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

Joh 17:3  And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

The root of the word menanaH4517 is taken from H5128. It’s informative to look at the definition here that closely resembles the actions of the oxen in this story of Uzzah who were caused by God to “shake” and bring about the events that led to Uzzah’s death. His death in the negative represents a drawing back and not living by faith moment when he took the actions he did in trying to steady the ark (Heb 10:38-39).

Heb 10:38  Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
Heb 10:39  But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

Another thing to gather from this story is the fear that it produced in a displeased David (2Sa 6:8-10), similar to how “great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things” when Ananias and Sapphira died for their disobedience (Act 5:11). It all just seemed so severe for the flesh, and it was (Rom 11:22)!

2Sa 6:8  And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah to this day. 
2Sa 6:9  And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me? 
2Sa 6:10  So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite. 

The world will see the actions of God sparing the few before sparing the vast majority of mankind (Mat 22:14) as being severe and will be displeased (Mat 20:11-13), not knowing that their actions, like Uzzah’s, of claiming their own righteousness is all they can do unless the Lord builds the house, working in us both to will and do of God’s good pleasure in this age, which is to give the elect the kingdom (Mat 7:22-23, Psa 127:1, Php 2:12-13, Luk 12:32).

Php 2:13  For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Luk 12:32  Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

If we are apprehended by Christ in this age as that sacrifice that is bound to the altar being spoken of in Psalm 118 (Rom 12:1, Psa 118:27), then all boasting is going to be excluded by the law of faith (Php 3:13, Rom 3:27), being those blessed servants who have been given the power to be found faithfully providing spiritual meat in due season, and able through Christ to forget what is behind us as we reach forth to those things which are before (Mat 24:43-51, Php 3:14-15).

Psa 118:27  God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.

Php 3:13  Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

Rom 3:27  Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. 

Mat 24:43  But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up [Mar 13:37].
Mat 24:44  Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. [be ready always (Luk 21:26-28) and give God all the glory for that readiness of the bride who will be made ready (Rev 19:7)]
Mat 24:45  Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
Mat 24:46  Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
Mat 24:47  Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
Mat 24:48  But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
Mat 24:49  And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
Mat 24:50  The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
Mat 24:51  And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth (Rom 11:22).

Php 3:13  Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 
Php 3:14  I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 
Php 3:15  Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

Conclusion

This study regarding the menana percussion instrument is very closely tied to the story of Uzzah found in 2 Samuel 6:5-8. God’s elect are called out of the world and told not to touch the unclean thing (2Co 6:17), and what we can learn from Uzzah is that the unclean thing is not the physical ark that represents Christ, but the sinful actions that come from within the man [Uzzah – and all of us] God causes to take actions that are against Him [the unclean man touching the clean ark] (Rev 18:4, Mat 15:11, Mary represents the church, the body of Christ [Col 1:24] wanting to touch Christ in the flesh but in need of going through a process of judgment to be able to maturely handle the things of God [Joh 20:17, 2Co 5:16]). We must be raised in heavenly places in order to touch the things of God that are hidden from the world, as we die daily in Christ (Eph 2:6, Rom 6:3-4).

Rev 18:4  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her [Isa 4:1, Isa 3:1], my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

Mat 15:11  Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. 

Joh 20:17  Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

2Co 5:16  Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more [The process is to go from the natural to the spiritual (1Co 15:46)].

The ‘unclean thing’ is not any of these five percussion instruments, but rather the unclean thing is in us, while being ‘touched’ or ‘heard’ yet not hearing “another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” Christ tells us the world can hear His words, and at the same time not believe (Joh 12:47). The world hears God’s word but doesn’t confess that Christ has come in their flesh, because He has not done so at this time (1Jn 4:3-6, Rom 8:9). 

Joh 12:47  And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: [I measure him not (Rev 11:2)] for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world [each man in his own order (1Co 15:23-24)].

1Jn 4:3  And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
1Jn 4:4  Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
1Jn 4:5  They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
1Jn 4:6  We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Rom 8:9  But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 

Of those who are in the world God says, “They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.” Hearing means there is a relationship in the world; a partnership that is saving its own flesh. God’s elect hear the voice of the true Shepherd who has called us to lose our life in order to find it, and by grace through faith (Eph 2:8) are led of the spirit of God and given the power to seek God’s will in all things as Christ did (Mat 16:25-26, Mat 24:13, Joh 5:30). 

Mat 16:25  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
Mat 16:26  For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Mat 24:13  But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Joh 5:30  I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

The word measure is connected to percussion instruments and music in general, (which “serve typically to delineate or emphasize rhythm“ – excerpt from Percussion instrument | Definition, Types, History, Examples, & Facts | Britannica),  and the spiritual significance for us is twofold. Firstly, we are not to measure the court (Rev 11:2), that is to try to change a world Christ tells us to come out of and says this of “And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world” (1Jn 4:17). Secondly, the elect’s life is being measured and judged in Christ who we are maturing into (Mat 7:2) because we are blessed to hear and believe God’s words (Rev 1:3) and continue in them (Rev 11:1-2, Eph 4:13, Eph 4:16). 

Mat 7:1  Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Mat 7:2  For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
Mat 7:3  And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Mat 7:4  Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
Mat 7:5  Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye [Rev 11:1]; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye [judging matters in the body, examining ourselves, our own flesh and bones (Eph 5:30, 1Co 11:31-32), looking well to the flock (1Pe 4:17, Act 20:28,  and one day, Lord willing, we will judge all the nations of this world (1Co 6:2, Rev 1:6, Rev 5:10)]. 
Mat 7:6  Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

Rev 11:1  And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
Rev 11:2  But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

Eph 4:13  Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Eph 4:16  From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

We believe in God and Christ (Joh 14:1-4) who make it possible for us to witness to the world that we are being led by the spirit of God, a spirit that bears witness that we are His sons and daughters (Rom 8:14-16). The measure that the body of Christ is becoming is described in these verses, and is connected to the 144,000 who represent the bride of Christ:  (Rev 7:4, Rev 14:1, Rev 14:3, Rev 21:17)

Rev 7:4  And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

Rev 14:1  And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.

Rev 14:3  And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.

Rev 21:17  And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.

Next week, Lord willing, we will continue to look at the last few percussion instruments on this list.

  • Meziltayim – Cymbals
  • Paamon – Bells
  • Toph – Timbrel / Tabret
  • Tselatsal (possibly Zelzelim) – Cymbals
]]> “Musical Instruments in the Bible” Part 5 – Wind – [Ugab=Organ/Sumponia=Dulcimer] https://www.iswasandwillbe.com/musical-instruments-in-the-bible-part-5-wind-ugaborgan-sumponiadulcimer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=musical-instruments-in-the-bible-part-5-wind-ugaborgan-sumponiadulcimer Thu, 26 Oct 2023 19:48:16 +0000 https://www.iswasandwillbe.com/?p=28581 “Musical Instruments in the bible” Part 5 – Wind – [Ugab=Organ/Sumponia=Dulcimer]
[Study Aired October 26, 2023]

This week we will look at the last of the wind instruments, the Ugab, which is translated as ‘organ’, along with the Sumponia, which is translated as ‘dulcimer’.

Excerpt from https://www.biblestudy.org/bible-study-by-topic/musical-instruments.html:

Hebrew: Ugab
KJV Name: Organ
Strong’s: #H5748
References: Gen 4:21, Job 21:12, Job 30:31, Psa 150:4

The ugab is the second musical instrument mentioned in Scripture. It was created by Jubal who also made the first harp (Gen 4:16-21). The KJV translation of ugab is a bit misleading as it was not some kind of keyboard-based instrument. It was a flute-like wind instrument, possibly a double or manifold pipe, made of wood or ivory. It could be used to praise and rejoice before God (Psa 150:4) or while mourning (Job 30:31).

Hebrew: Sumponia
KJV Name: Dulcimer
Strong’s: #H5481
References: Dan 3:5, Dan 3:10, Dan 3:15

The KJV word “dulcimer,” found only in Daniel, is a mistranslation. Modern dulcimers are percussion based musical instruments that possess metal strings that are hit with lightweight hammers. Smith’s Bible Dictionary, the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE) and Wilmington’s Guide, however, all state the sumponia was possibly a type of bagpipe.

Tyndale’s Dictionary, however, argues the sumponia couldn’t have been a bagpipe, as musicologists believe no such instrument existed at the time of King Nebuchadnezzar. The uncertainty of the Hebrew makes it difficult to know what is being referenced.

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The first use of the word ugabH5748 is found in Genesis 4:21, “And his brother’s name was JubalH3106: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ [ugabH5748].” Jubal means “stream”, and the root word means “to carry forth”, which is what a stream does. Jubal represents what God is going to do in time through all of His creation which will bring forth living waters (Joh 7:37-38). That great day of the feast (Joh 7:37) represents the time when all the world will be judged in the great white throne judgment and receive of the living waters that will break forth as a result of that judgment.

Joh 7:37  In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

Why is the “last day” called “that great day of the feast?” What is it that makes this day such a “great day?” What makes this day so very special is that this day is the ‘day’ in which all men of all the ages, all the aions of all the aions, will be raised up and purified and redeemed and brought to see themselves and repent and come to their Creator in love and worship. This is the final Jubilee!

Lev 25:10  And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

When is this ‘jubile’ proclaimed:

Lev 25:9  Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth [day] of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. [End Quote]

Joh 7:37  In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

Joh 7:38  He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

That shadow of living waters coming forth as a result of judgment is played out over and over in God’s word (Gen 7:11, Num 20:11), and knowing what the resulting effect of that judgment will bring forth in our lives, we are told to rejoice in the midst of our trials for God is doing this great work in us that will bring forth a permanency in our mindset (1Pe 4:1-2) which will have us rejoicing in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice, all in God’s perfect time (Pro 23:15, Luk 1:46-47, Luk 19:40).

Gen 7:11  In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

Num 20:11  And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice [Isa 53:5]: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

1Pe 4:1  Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
1Pe 4:2  That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

Pro 23:15  My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. 

Luk 1:46  And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, 
Luk 1:47  And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. 

Luk 19:40  And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.

The concept of ‘rejoicing always’ (Php 4:4-14) was not something that would have been foreign to Jubal who was the father of “all such as handle the harp and organ”. Like Jubal who typifies the elect that are the first to worship God in spirit and in truth [first living instruments in Christ], we are instructed in these verses of Philippians what must be accomplished in our lives if we are going to be able to continually offer up the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving to our God [“Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice“], of which sacrifices He is well pleased (Heb 13:15, Psa 50:14).

Heb 13:15  By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually,(Php 4:4) that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
Heb 13:16  But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Gal 6:6  Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.

Php 4:14  Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.

1Ti 6:18  That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

Music, and the instruments with which we make music, symbolize the means by which we bring forth living waters unto God. We can communicate with God in spirit and in truth if we are in His holy hands and being worked with and accepted as His workmanship which is found in Christ (Eph 1:5-6). That imagery of working out our own salvation with fear and trembling, knowing it is God who is working in us both to will and to do of His good pleasure, is what the priests, who represent Christ blowing the shofar, typify for us (Php 2:12-13, Jos 6:13).

Eph 1:5  Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Eph 1:6  To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

Php 2:12  Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Php 2:13  For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. 

Jos 6:13  And seven priests bearing seven trumpetsH7782 of rams’ horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpetsH7782: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpetsH7782.

Today’s study will focus on the organ and the dulcimer and the surrounding verses where these instruments are first mentioned, which always helps us get a better insight as to what their spiritual significance is for us today.

Php 4:4  Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. 
Php 4:5  Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. 
Php 4:6  Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Php 4:7  And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Php 4:8  Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

[Notice that ‘thinking on these things’ is in large part what “ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do” and precedes our being equipped to communicate with the affliction of those who are suffering in the body of Christ (Php 4:14)]

Php 4:9  Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
Php 4:10  But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity. 
Php 4:11  Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
Php 4:12  I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 
Php 4:13  I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. 
Php 4:14  Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.

When we communicate in the body of Christ, it must be done decently and in order (1Co 14:40). Order is synonymous with harmony, and without our obedience to God’s commands we lose that order and the beauty of holiness (2Ch 20:21, 1Jn 5:2-3) that God gives us when we abase ourselves and take our lead from Christ who directs his body and provides us with a multitude of counselors so we can find safety in Him (Pro 11:14, Pro 15:22, Pro 24:6). Being led by the spirit of God will always bring about liberty (Rom 8:14-16, 2Co 3:17), and we can have no greater liberty or joy in this life than when we all are speaking the same thing as we walk in the truth (Php 2:2-4). This proper communication all comes back to our opening verse in Genesis 4:21 where we see the first mention of instruments from a man whose name [JubalH3106] points to the only way we can have harmony in the body of Christ, by having the same mind of Christ, with the same spirit of God within us that makes the many members one body (1Co 10:17). 

2Ch 20:21  And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever.

1Co 10:17  For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

H3106yûbâlyoo-bawl’

From H2986; stream; Jubal, an antediluvian: – Jubal.

Total KJV occurrences: 1
H2986yâbalyaw-bal’

A primitive root; properly to flow; causatively to bring (especially with pomp): – bring (forth), carry, lead (forth).

Total KJV occurrences: 18

Gen 4:19  And Lamech (Adam->Cain->Enoch->Irad->Mehuiael->Lamech – vs 17-18) took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. 
Gen 4:20  And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle. 
Gen 4:21  And his brother’s name was JubalH3106: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organH5748.
Gen 4:22  And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.
Gen 4:23  And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.

The organH5748 spoken of in Genesis 4:21 is a wind instrument, and the context that we find this instrument being used in Genesis 4:21-26, Job 21:12-34, and Job 30:31 is connected to death as we are reminded of how all we do in this life is vanity because it is passing away (1Pe 1:24, Jas 4:14) and leading to our going to the grave (Ecc 1:2). Now that would be the most depressing message someone could bring to you, if our hope was only in Christ is this life, but add Psalm 150:6, and it becomes very clear that there is a negative and positive use of the word “breath”, and in particular with the word organH5748, where we are given hope in what God has promised He will accomplish with the breath of His mouth. 

1Pe 1:23  Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. 
1Pe 1:24  For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

Jas 4:14  Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 

Ecc 1:2  Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

The  breath of life God breathed into Adam (Gen 2:7) typifies those instruments that only point to the physical death and mourning which is accompanied with this vain flesh in which we live, whereas the spirit of God that was given on Pentecost points to the life of Christ given to the second Adam so that the real breath of life can be experienced, which happens with God’s spirit dwelling within us (Joh 20:22, Joh 6:53-57, Col 1:27, Rom 8:9).

Gen 2:7  And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathedH5301 into his nostrils the breathH5397 of life; and man became a living soulH5315.

Joh 20:22  And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:

Joh 6:57  As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

Col 1:27  To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 

Rom 8:9  But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 

(…continuing with Genesis 4)

Gen 4:24  If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Gen 4:25  And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
Gen 4:26  And to SethH8352, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.

SethH8352 (compensation, substitute) is the third son of Adam, and we know that the number ‘3’ represents the process of judgment we must go through to go on to perfection on the third day (Luk 13:32). No man can enter into the temple “till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled” (Rev 15:8). Until that process of judgment is finished, our relationship in that temple is in earnest (downpayment), seeing through a glass darkly and not yet seeing Him face to face, therefore after the third son of Adam is born, the symbolic words “then began men to call upon the name of the LORD” is introduced, meaning that it is after the process of judgment, through which we all must go, that we will finally be able to go into the temple of God in the fullness, or go on to perfection as Christ said on the third day, speaking of the first resurrection for God’s elect, who are as Christ being judged and losing our Adamic life for the new life of Christ within us “even he shall live by me.“

Joh 6:53  Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
Joh 6:54  Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
Joh 6:55  For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
Joh 6:56  He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
Joh 6:57  As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

Job 21:12  They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organH5748.
Job 21:13  They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
Job 21:14  Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Job 21:15  What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? 
Job 21:16  Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job 21:17  How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
Job 21:18  They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
Job 21:19  God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
Job 21:20  His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Job 21:21  For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
Job 21:22  Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
Job 21:23  One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. 
Job 21:24  His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. 
Job 21:25  And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
Job 21:26  They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
Job 21:27  Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Job 21:28  For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked? 
Job 21:29  Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
Job 21:30  That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. 
Job 21:31  Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? 
Job 21:32  Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
Job 21:33  The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him [Rev 7:9].
Job 21:34  How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

Job 30:31  My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organH5748 into the voice of them that weep.

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Excerpt from Job 21:18-34 “The Wicked is Reserved to the Day of Destruction” by Mike Vinson

When we come to know Christ and His Father we learn that His “marred… vessel… made of clay” was “made of clay” for the purpose of disposing of that old vessel, and that He had determined before He ever formed that “marred vessel” that he would destroy it and through the agency of that destruction, make a new vessel that really will be “conformed to the image of His Son”.

Job is one of the earliest revelations of this Truth. To Job it was obvious that the wicked are not being judged in this life. What he did not yet understand is that his experience would, as Peter tells us, “minister not unto [him]self, but unto us.” Nevertheless Job was granted to understand “That the wicked are reserved to the day of destruction; they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.”

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Excerpt from Job 30:16-31 “For I Know That Thou Wilt Bring Me to Death” by Mike Vinson.

Job tells us, “My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.” Here is what we are told of the fate of Babylon within us, with all the music and mirth that, until the hour of her judgment, was to be found in her.

Rev 18:21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Rev 18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;

To our doomed old man, this all sounds so ‘apocalyptic’, and indeed, for him it is apocalyptic. However, for the new man, this is nothing less than the good news of the kingdom of God which is within us, and it is the beginning of “life more abundantly.”

Luk 17:20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Luk 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

Joh 10:10 The thief [the beast, the man of sin, empowered by the dragon] cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

So then what is death to our ‘old man’ is actually life to our ‘new man’.

Joh 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

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The last verse we will look at regarding the organ is found in Psalm 150:4-6, and the surrounding verses draw our attention to a very hope-filled conclusion to this second last of the wind instruments we’ll be looking at.

Psa 150:4  Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organsH5748.
Psa 150:5  Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
Psa 150:6  Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.

As mentioned above, this is the positive use of “organ”, and the collective sound of all these instruments, wind or not, are said to be part of everything that hath breath that praises the LORD. In this we see that ‘breath’ is also synonymous with how the spirit moves us, how we are led by the spirit (Rom 8:14-16), and not just synonymous with the actual ‘wind’ that typifies the spirit of God that many wind instruments we’ve looked at require to make their sound. The verse that comes to mind is Psalm 133:1-3. The whole family of God makes up many parts of this spiritual orchestra: cymbals, timbrels, dance, stringed instruments, all make up the “everything” that “hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.” 

Psa 133:1  A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
Psa 133:2  It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; 
Psa 133:3  As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. 

The last wind instrument we will look at is the sumponia, or dulcimer.

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The KJV word “dulcimer,” found only in Daniel, is a mistranslation. Modern dulcimers are percussion-based musical instruments that possess metal strings which are hit with lightweight hammers. Smith’s Bible Dictionary, the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE) and Wilmington’s Guide, however, all state the sumponia was possibly a type of bagpipe.

Tyndale’s Dictionary, however, argues the sumponia couldn’t have been a bagpipe, as musicologists believe no such instrument existed at the time of King Nebuchadnezzar. The uncertainty of the Hebrew makes it difficult to know what is being referenced.

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The context in which we find the dulcimerH5481 being used in God’s word is not a positive one, but rather connected to idolatry and the worship of self, as opposed to worship of the Creator rather than the creation (Rom 1:25). In a previous study found at this link, [Musical Instruments in the bible – Part 4], there is a lot of detail brought out as to what the relationship to the idolatrous event Nebuchadnezzar conducted represents.

Musical Instruments in the bible – Part 4 excerpt:

As mentioned, Nebuchadnezzar is a type of Satan, and like Satan he is not content in this society to just set up the idols of his heart to present to the unsuspecting deceived masses, but also commands everyone, to “fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up”, and if not “be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.”  This fiery furnace typifies the fiery trials of the elect’s faith (1Pe 4:12, 1Pe 1:7) which is to be hated and rejected by all the world for coming out of Babylon and touching not the unclean thing, as we are accepted of our Father through Christ (Heb 12:6-7). It is through a process of judgment [Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego], of fiery trials and of much tribulation that this self-righteous spirit which naturally abides within us will be ruled over and eventually destroyed, going on to perfection on the third day, Lord willing (Eph 1:6-7, Luk 13:32).

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The three places where the dulcimer is mentioned in these verses are connected with fiery judgment.

Isa 30:27  Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire: 
Isa 30:28  And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err. 
Isa 30:29  Ye shall have a song, [all men shall be saved (1Co 15:22)] as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel. 
Isa 30:30  And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.

Next week, Lord willing, we will begin to study the percussion instruments mentioned in the bible: the Menana, the Meziltayim, the Paamon, the Toth, and the Tselatsal.

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Excerpt from https://www.biblestudy.org/bible-study-by-topic/musical-instruments.html:

Percussion

Hebrew: Menana

KJV Name: Cornets (Sistrum)

Strong’s: #H4517 

References: 2Sa 6:5

The Hebrew menana is erroneously translated as “cornets” in the King James Version of 2 Samuel 6:5. The word means “to rattle”, and likely designates an instrument known as a sistrum.

Sistrums had rings or disks loosely attached to one or more bars fixed across a frame. The frame was constructed out of carved bronze or copper. The Sistrum was played by holding it upright and shaking it, allowing its rings to move back and forth on its bars. The menana was played when King David attempted to escort the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem.

Hebrew: Meziltayim

KJV Name: Cymbals

Strong’s: #H4700

References: 1Ch 13:8, 1Ch 15:16, 19, 28, 1Ch 16:5, 42, 1Ch 25:1, 6, 2Ch 5:12-13, 1Ch 29:25, Ezr 3:10, Neh 12:27

The Hebrew word meziltayim means “double tinklers.” This instrument, made of brass, was utilized by the leaders of the Levitical singers and played a prominent role in religious ceremonies.

Hebrew: Paamon

KJV Name: Bell

Strong’s: #H6472

References: Exo 28:33, 34, Exo 39:25, 36

Tiny bells and pomegranates were attached to the lower hem of the High Priest’s ephod. Although not loud, the bells signaled his location in the temple’s sanctuary.

Hebrew: Toph

KJV Name: Timbrel / Tabret

Strong’s: #H8596

References: Gen 31:27, Exo 15:20, Jdg 11:34, 1Sa 10:5, 1Sa 18:6, 2Sa 6:5, 1Ch 13:8, Job 21:12, etc.

The Hebrew word toph is translated ten times as “timbrel” and eight times as “tabret.” The toph, the oldest and most popular means of percussion, was a musical instrument of the drum kind. The 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, in its section on the timbrel and tabret, states the following:

“It is very simple, consisting of a broad or narrow hoop of wood or metal over which the skin of an animal is stretched. Sometimes small, thin pieces of metal are hung upon the rim, which jingle when the timbrel is shaken, as in the modern tambourine.

The instrument is held high in one hand, while the performer beats on the drumhead with the fingers and the back of the other hand.”

Hebrew: Tselatsal (possibly Zelzelim)

KJV Name: Cymbals

Strong’s: #H6767

References: 2Sa_6:5, Psa_150:5

Tselatsals produced a loud clanging sound. This musical instrument was played when King David attempted to escort the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem.

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“Musical Instruments in the Bible”

Part 5 – Wind [Shofar=Cornet/Trumpet – Part 2]

The shofar

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Excerpt from https://www.biblestudy.org/bible-study-by-topic/musical-instruments.html:

Hebrew: Shofar
KJV Name: Cornet/Trumpet
Strong’s: #H7782
References: Exo_19:16, Exo_19:19, Exo_20:18, Lev_25:9, Jos_6:4-20, Jdg_3:27, etc.

The Hebrew word shofar is recorded 72 times in the Hebrew Old Testament, all of which are mistranslated in the KJV. It is erroneously called a trumpet 68 times and a cornet 4 times (Psa_98:6, 1Ch_15:28, 2Ch_15:14, Hos_5:8). The shofar and trumpet, according to the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, are two distinct instruments as delineated in Psa_98:6 and 1Ch_15:28.

The shofar is mentioned more than any other musical instrument in the Bible. It is the only instrument that survives in its original form that is still used in modern Jewish liturgy. It was usually made from the curved horn of a ram or goat. Shofars announced the New Moons and Sabbaths (Psa_81:3), warned of approaching danger, and signaled the death of nobility.

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In our last study we were introduced to the first two verses where the word Shofar is used in the KJV in Exodus 19:16 and Exodus 19:19. The nineteenth chapter of Exodus introduces the nation of Israel to the voice of JEHOVAH, who we know to be Jesus Christ. That voice was symbolized by the breath that is required to blow the Shofar. The horn represents the power of the beast (Ecc 3:18) that is taken away by being cut off from the animal’s head, and then the priest would use that horn to make different sounds to give various commands to the camp of Israel.

JEHOVAH can now be heard by all the camp of Israel, and His voice is so powerful it causes all in the camp to tremble with fear (Exo 19:16) as a shadow of the truth that it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Lord who judges us (Heb 10:30-31).

Exo 19:16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.

Heb 10:30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
Heb 10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

The first time the word JEHOVAH is used in the KJV bible is in Exodus 6:3, where we learn of God’s covenant with Israel to take them out from under the bondage of the Egyptians which represents our bondage to sin in this life (Exo 6:1-6).

Exo 6:1 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.
Exo 6:2 And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD:
Exo 6:3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
Exo 6:4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
Exo 6:5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
Exo 6:6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: (Joh 8:36)

Our deliverance from that bondage to sin can only happen by receiving God’s holy spirit (Rom 8:9) that brings fiery judgment into our lives causing us to cease from sinning (1Pe 4:12, 1Pe 4:17, 1Pe 4:1-2). The events we are reading which unfolded for the nation of physical Israel at mount Sinai are typical of the events that would happen for the Israel of God on Pentecost (Gal 6:16).

The first event in Exodus that saw three-thousand people physically die due to rebellion happened on Pentecost (Exo 32:28-30). The death of the three thousand represents the process of judgment all flesh must go through in order to be purified by God’s word to inherit the kingdom of God, which flesh and blood cannot inherit (1Co 15:50). The three thousand being added to the church on Pentecost (Act 2:41) also represents judgment in our lives which now conforms us to the mind of Christ (Rom 12:2, 1Co 2:16) through a lifelong process of mortifying the deeds of the flesh and considering ourselves dead to sin and alive in Christ (3x10x10x10=3000 – Rom 6:11).

Exo 32:30 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.

Rom 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

1Co 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Rom 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Moses typifies Christ who says to the people “Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.” This event was typical of the true reformer Jesus Christ whose sacrificial life was the only sacrifice that could atone for all the sins of the world (Joh 1:29-32). If Christ’s life is in us (Joh 6:63) as our hope of glory (Rom 8:9, Col 1:27), then we are accepted by God through Christ (Eph 1:6). We become a living sacrifice in Him, part of that one seed (Joh 14:20, Gal 3:16) that fills up what is behind of the afflictions of Christ (Col 1:24, 1Jn 4:17), atoning for the sins of the world with Christ’s life within us. Christ gives us the strength to become a trespass offering to the Lord (Lev 14:12-14, Lev 16:8-10, Lev 14:4-8).

Joh 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
Joh 1:30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
Joh 1:31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
Joh 1:32 And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.

Joh 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

Gal 3:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

Lev 14:12 And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:
Lev 14:13 And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy: [1Jn 4:17]
Lev 14:14 And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:

Lev 16:8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
Lev 16:9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD’S lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.
Lev 16:10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him [Col 1:24, Col 1:27], and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness [“for a trespass offering”].

Lev 14:4 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
Lev 14:5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:
Lev 14:6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:
Lev 14:7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.
Lev 14:8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.

The next verse where we see the word Shofar being used is also found in the book of Exodus (Exo 20:18-19), which describes the judgment of God that the people saw “the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpetH7782, and the mountain smoking” that they removed themselves from, and stood afar off, “and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.” These actions of Israel demonstrate mankind’s inability to go unto the light to be cleansed through that judgment (1Jn 1:5-8, Joh 6:44).

Exo 20:18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
Exo 20:19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die [Rom 6:11].

1Jn 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1Jn 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
1Jn 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
1Jn 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Joh 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

Then we come to the book of Leviticus (Lev 25:8-12) where the word ShofarH7782 is translated “the trumpetH7782 of jubile” that is sounded “on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpetH7782 sound throughout all your land.” This day of jubilee represents the liberty which will be given to all the world once God’s holy spirit is given to all humanity (2Co 3:17). Physically the jubilee was a time of freeing Israel of all physical land debt that may be owned. That debt being lifted is a symbol of all the sins of all the world being forgiven and washed by the blood of the lamb (Rev 21:4). The debt of our sins is paid through Christ who takes away the sins of the world through His land, his body, the church that is the body of Christ (Eph 5:30, Col 1:24), which will be used to bring the world into giving an accounting in the great white throne judgment, where mercy will triumph over judgment (Jas 2:13).

The mercy God shows to the elect today will be extended to the rest of God’s creation in the lake of fire, also called the great white throne judgment (Rom 11:29-33), and these verses (Lev 25:8-12) parallel with the 49 days that preceded the 50th day of Pentecost where liberty was given to those who were called and chosen in this age to receive God’s holy spirit, the free gift of salvation that began to be given on Pentecost. Liberty comes “by grace (5×10=50) are ye saved through faith” and “that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.” That faith is “not of works, lest any man should boast, anymore than anyone in Israel had a right to boast for the free gift of having their debt taken away from them after 50 years on jubileH8643 (Eph 2:8-9).

How the world will ultimately feel (Rev 21:4) when they know that their debt has been paid in full through Christ, and they are given saviors who come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau, so that in time God will be all in all (1Co 15:28, 1Co 12:6, Eph 1:23) is revealed in the meaning of the word itself, which is where we get our word jubilation. The jubilee also falls on the day of atonement, reminding us that all the world will be made one with God through putting off our flesh [fasting] via the acceptable fast (Isa 58:5) that can only happen with the life of Christ within us redeeming us and making us one with our Father, who will be all in all one day (1Co 15:28).

1Co 15:28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

1Co 12:6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.

Eph 1:23 Which is his body [Eph 5:30], the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

Lev 25:8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
Lev 25:9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpetH7782 of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
Lev 25:10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
Lev 25:11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
Lev 25:12 For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

The last verses with the word Shofar in it which we will be looking at in this study is found in Joshuah 6:4-20, where we see the word Shofar used twelve times, but using the English word trumpet(s)H7782. This section of scripture drives home the point of what a unified, complete [7] body of Christ has the power to do with the word of God working in our lives, and how, as priests at that time, God was showing the world with this story of Joshua (Jos 6:4-20) what His intentions were for all of humanity who would be judged and saved, each man in his own order, by those who were made kings and priests (Rev 1:6, Rev 5:10) and will be used to pour out God’s judgments upon the world having already been judged themselves in this life (1Pe 4:17). As with the previous study using chapter 19 of the book of Exodus, we are only focused on the significance of the Shofar in these verses in the book of Joshua. For a more in-depth study on the 6th Chapter of Joshua, please see these two excellent studies given by Grant: The Book of Joshua – Part 6: ‘The Irony of the Moon Standing Upon a Moon’ for its Destruction – Joshua 6:1-17 and The Book of Joshua – Part 7: Fame and Fear of the Sword Wielded by the Elect of God will go Globally – Joshua 6:18-27.

These seven angels in the book of revelation are represented by those priests who surrounded the walls of Jericho taking the symbolic actions that were accomplished to conquer this land. The book of Revelation is a repeat of this event but with greater detail of the process and order that this judgment will take (1st to 4th angel [Rev 8:6-12], 5th and 6th angel [Rev 9:1-21], the seventh angel [Rev 10:1-11, Rev 11:1-15]). It is with the entire church or complete church (7) that the complete judgment of God, symbolized by seven trumpets, will bring the walls of Jericho down. The walls of Jericho represent everything in the world that resists God and must be overcome within us if we are going to be used to save the world through God’s judgments upon the world in the great white throne judgment. God willing we are hearing His voice today, with eyes that see and ears that hear and see the meaning of the shofar that should be continually blowing in our ears until our last breath, being judged in this age and enduring those judgments until the end of our lives through Christ (1Jn 2:16, Gal 5:17).

Jos 6:4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpetsH7782 of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpetsH7782.

In this first verse (Jos 6:4) we’re introduced to the seven priests who bear seven trumpets before the ark, and compass the city seven times, and then they blow with trumpetsH7782. What this is showing God’s elect today is that there is work to be done as fellow labourers in Christ, who must be about our Father’s business as Christ was (Joh 5:17, 1Jn 4:17). This entails us overcoming the sin within our members by completely [7] encompassing the cities within us as one body of Christ, each member being a joint that supplies to that body. Then in the following verses, we will see what that unified work of Christ through His body will ultimately produce within those who are blessed to be in that blessed and holy first resurrection (Rev 20:6). The fruit of the elect’s life is demonstrated today in the unity or singleness of mind God gives us (Php 2:2). Our discipleship in the Lord alone makes it possible for us to love one another and grow as one body that is overcoming by grace through faith (Joh 13:35, Rom 5:5, 1Jn 5:2, Eph 2:8, 1Co 13:7-9).

Jos 6:5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpetsH7782, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.

Babylon will fall in one symbolic hour, meaning it won’t take long for all the world to know they have been deceived by the devil, as we all were, and in the day that the seventh trumpet sounds, Babylon will fall. That falling will be a process for the world just as it will have been for the elect who were the first to have the corruptible nature of Adam judged (Rev 14:8, 1Co 15:52-53, Rev 11:15).

Rev 18:10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.

Rev 18:17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,

Rev 18:19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

Jos 6:6 And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpetsH7782 of rams’ horns before the ark of the LORD.

Joshua gave command to the priests to “take up the ark of the covenant” symbolizing the life of Christ, our hope of glory within us (Col 1:27). Going before the ark there were seven priests bearing seven “trumpetsH7782 of rams’ horns before the ark of the LORD” symbolizing how all the words of the Lord go before us (Psa 119:160, Mat 4:4) as one body of Christ with His banner of love over us (Son 2:4, Psa 60:4, Rom 5:5). The priests are seven, symbolizing the complete church with the unified message of the salvation of all being completely proclaimed with seven trumpets [complete] to all nations with a unified message or blast of the trumpets (we are many trumpets but the same spirit that blows each trumpet [1Co 12:4, 1Co 12:8-9]).

Jos 6:7 And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.

Joshua, a type of Christ, gives us our marching orders as we are led by the spirit of God where we will find liberty in Christ (Rom 8:14, 2Co 3:17). Those who are armed “pass on before the ark of the LORD” and represent the elect who are the first to experience this promised victory of God Who arms us with the mind of Christ and the whole armor we need in this spiritual battle in which we are engaged (Rom 13:12, Eph 6:11-13).

Rom 13:12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Eph 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Jos 6:8 And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpetsH7782 of rams’ horns passed on before the LORD, and blew with the trumpetsH7782: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.
Jos 6:9 And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpetsH7782, and the rereward came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpetsH7782.

The imagery created in these two verses (Jos 6:8-9) demonstrates how we are surrounded by God’s mercy and how nothing shall separate us from the love of Christ before or behind (Rom 8:36-39). The armed men represent the strength of Christ that goes before us as we go into battle and blow the trumpets which declare our imminent victory in him. Then “the rerewardH622 came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpetsH7782” to demonstrate how both flanks are covered, the back and the front, to remind us that nothing shall separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (1Sa 17:47).

Rom 8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Rom 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Rom 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Rom 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1Sa 17:47 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD’S, and he will give you into our hands.

H622 rereward ‘âsaph aw-saf’
A primitive root; to gather for any purpose; hence to receive, take away, that is, remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.): – assemble, bring, consume, destroy, fetch, gather (in, together, up again), X generally, get (him), lose, put all together, receive, recover [another from leprosy], (be) rereward, X surely, take (away, into, up), X utterly, withdraw. Total KJV occurrences: 199

Jos 6:10 And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.

The lesson in verse 10 for God’s elect is to not operate in our flesh: “Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.” God is not concerned about our opinions but is wanting us only to do what He commands us, and to speak when He wants us to speak, which takes a miraculous event in our heavens (Mat 6:2, Mar 13:10-13).

Mat 6:2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

Mar 13:10 And the gospel must first be published among all nations.
Mar 13:11 But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.
Mar 13:12 Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
Mar 13:13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Jos 6:11 So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
Jos 6:12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD.
Verse 11 reminds us that we are in the world but not of it as “the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.” Christ, our hope of glory within us, is represented by Joshua who rises early in the morning as a shadow of the one who is working in us both to will and to do of God’s good pleasure in this life (Php 2:12-13). His pleasure, as his workmanship, is that we seek for the Lord early, and in doing so we will find Him (Pro 8:17, Jer 29:13, Heb 11:6, Mat 6:33) as priests who take “up the ark of the LORD” (Col 1:27).

Jos 6:13 And seven priests bearing seven trumpetsH7782 of rams’ horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpetsH7782: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpetsH7782.

The same message from Joshua 6:8-9 is repeated for us here in verse 13; how the Lord protects us so that the message of the kingdom of God can reach every nation as a witness, “and then shall the end come” (Mat 24:14). It is a joyful and light burden to bear “seven trumpetsH7782 of rams’ horns before the ark of the LORD” (Rom 8:18, 1Pe 4:13) and it is a work we must continually be about, which our Father in heaven knows, and so He makes provision for us. “The armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpetsH7782.”

Jos 6:14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
Jos 6:15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.

Now the second day comes, and the same series of events follow for the priests and the people involved in this typical great cloud of witness event (Heb 12:1). The gospel message has a glorious and exciting redundancy to it that is shown on this second day and right through until the sixth day. Then the seventh day comes about, and on this day “they rose early about the dawning of the day” symbolizing the mindset of those virgins who will be made ready (Rev 19:7) just prior to Christ’s return having risen early to trim their lamps, all the while looking to the Lord (Mat 25:1-5, Rev 3:18, Mat 25:10, Psa 25:14-15). This section of scripture (“And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times” – Jos 6:15) coincides with Revelation 8:1-6 where we read:

Rev 8:1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Rev 8:2 And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
Rev 8:3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
Rev 8:4 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.
Rev 8:5 And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
Rev 8:6 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

Psa 25:14 The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.
Psa 25:15 Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

Jos 6:16 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpetsH7782, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the LORD hath given you the city.
Jos 6:17 And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

‘The Lord has given you the city’, meaning God will ultimately give us all victory over our sinful flesh, each man in his own order (1Co 15:23). That victory is preceded by the priests blowing with the trumpetsH7782 and obeying the command of Joshua to shout (1Th 4:15-18).

1Th 4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
1Th 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
1Th 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1Th 4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

The city that is “accursed” represents our flesh that hangs on a tree (Deu 21:23), and the one who survives this war is “only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house” who represents the body of Christ who were part of the harlot system and now come out of her by God’s grace. Rahab and all that were with her in her house were as good as dead, like Jonah in the belly of the great fish, yet God had planned to show mercy to them all (Rom 11:20-22, Rom 11:30-31). The ‘all’ denotes “we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.” The function of those who come out of Babylon today is to hide “the messengers that we sent” as we are hidden in Christ (Col 3:3-4). To that end, we may grow together in the grace and knowledge of our Lord (2Pe 3:16-18) and be saved in a moment and a twinkling of an eye at the last trump (1Co 15:52). The whole world was falling around Rahab and all that are within her house (like today), yet God was faithful to the ones who feared Him and delivered and spared them in the midst of this judgment upon the city (1Pe 4:17-18, Mal 3:16-18).

Col 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Col 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

1Co 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

1Pe 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
1Pe 4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved [typified by Rahab and her house], where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

Mal 3:16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
Mal 3:17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
Mal 3:18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

Jos 6:18 And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
Jos 6:19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.

In verse 18 we are admonished to keep ourselves from the accursed thing, which represents the false doctrines and lies of Babylon found within the city that has been destroyed, and so were admonished in like manner with these spiritual admonitions given from Christ by the apostle Peter (2Pe 3:14-18).

2Pe 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
2Pe 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
2Pe 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
2Pe 3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness [“keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it“].
2Pe 3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

The riches that we take out of Babylon are represented by “all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD”. These are the spoils of war that must needs be purified by the judgement and purification process that comes upon us via the destruction of the old city (Heb 10:32, Heb 12:6), and then “they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.” The treasury of the LORD represents where we lay up the true refined and purified treasures of God’s word in our hearts that tell us we now have been blessed to lay hold of exceedingly great and precious promises “that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust” (Mat 6:19-21, 2Pe 1:4, 2Co 4:7-10).

Mat 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Mat 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
Mat 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

2Co 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
2Co 4:8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
2Co 4:9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
2Co 4:10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

Jos 6:20 So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpetsH7782, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

How we take the city is by hearing “the sound of the trumpetsH7782” and then acting upon that command, both to will and to do of God’s good pleasure (Rom 2:13, Php2:12-13). We know it is by the faith of Christ within us as our great shield, that we have been blessed to receive (Eph 6:16, Rom 3:27), that we will take the city as expressed with these words “the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.”

Rom 2:13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified [Rom 10:17].

Eph 6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

Rom 3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith [Eph 2:8].

Conclusion

The verses that come to mind that I want to end this study off on regarding the Shofar are found in (Heb 11:32-38) which says “And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets.” There were so many men and women of God who “through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions” and “Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to fight the armies of the aliens.” Also “Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented.”

The reason I mention these verses in particular is to remind us that all these victories that God gave to those mentioned in the 11th chapter of Hebrews, are typical of the victory that can be ours if we are granted to hear the voice (shofarH7782) of the true Shepherd and heed the warnings that are being given to us in this age as the trumpets blow in the church, where the manifest knowledge of Christ is being made known in His body (Eph 3:10). All that they endured (Heb 11:32-38) reminds us that we must arm ourselves with the mind of Christ (1Pe 4:1-2), knowing nothing less will be expected of the body of Christ who will enter into the kingdom of God through much tribulation (Act 14:22) and affliction that will be accompanied with God’s mercy that will endure forever, seeing us through it all (1Co 10:13).

1Pe 4:1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
1Pe 4:2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

Eph 3:10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

1Co 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Next week I plan to look at the next and last of the wind instruments, the Ugab, which is an organ, along with the sumponia which is a dulcimer.

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“Musical Instruments in the Bible” Part 5 – Wind [Shofar=Cornet/Trumpet – Part 1]

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Excerpt from https://www.biblestudy.org/bible-study-by-topic/musical-instruments.html:

Hebrew: Shofar
KJV Name: Cornet / Trumpet
Strong’s: #H7782

References: Exo 19:16, Exo 19:19, Exo 20:18, Lev 25:9, Jos 6:4-20, Jdg 3:27, etc.

The Hebrew word shofar is recorded 72 times in the Hebrew Old Testament, all of which are mistranslated in the KJV. It is erroneously called a trumpet 68 times and a cornet 4 times (Psa 98:6, 1Ch 15:28, 2Ch 15:14, Hos 5:8). The shofar and trumpet, according to the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, are two distinct instruments as delineated in Psalm 98:6 and 1 Chronicles 15:28.

The shofar is mentioned more than any other musical instrument in the Bible. It is the only instrument that survives in its original form that is still used in modern Jewish liturgy. It was usually made from the curved horn of a ram or goat. Shofars announced the New Moons and Sabbaths (Psa 81:3), warned of approaching danger, and signaled the death of nobility.

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This week we will look at Part One on the Shofar, H7782 the [cornet or trumpet], and then conclude the wind instruments section of our study with the Ugab [the organ] in the following weeks, Lord willing. [Shofar (Cornet or Trumpet) and the Ugab (Organ)].

The first mention of the Shofar (of its 72 times being mentioned in the KJV) is in Exodus 19:16. This chapter is very revealing as to what the spiritual significance of the Shofar is for God’s people today. I’d like to start the study of the Shofar by looking at Exodus chapter 19, which will give us a good idea of what it symbolizes for the body of Christ, before looking at other instances where this Strong’s number is used, which we will do next week.

The different stages in our life, where we are progressing in our walk out of Babylon, are paralleled with the journeys of Israel out of the wilderness, and give us hope that we can endure to the end through Christ if we are blessed to hear His voice (Mar 12:29) and obey His commandments in this life (Psa 18:44, Deu 30:1-2). 

Mar 12:29  And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
Mar 12:30  And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
Mar 12:31  And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Psa 18:44 At the hearing of the ear they listen to me; the sons of foreigners shall bow down to me. (LITV)

Deu 30:1  And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
Deu 30:2  And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; 

It is one thing to be delivered from a place of bondage and another to then have the Lord begin to work within you to perfect, establish, strengthen and settle you (1Pe 5:10-11). This section of Exodus 19 starts a journey for Israel out of Egypt typifying overcoming the wood, hay and stubble of this life (1Co 3:12-13), but it is only in verse sixteen where we first hear of the Shofar being used, which symbolizes not just hearing the word of God but the start of a deeper and more profound judgment which all the journeys of Israel typify for our sakes (1Pe 1:11-12). 

1Pe 5:10  But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
1Pe 5:11  To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 

1Co 3:12  Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 
1Co 3:13  Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.

1Pe 1:11  Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. 
1Pe 1:12  Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. 

This 19th chapter reveals how God’s Hand was working in the lives of the nation of Israel, typifying for us today how He is working within the body of Christ as we are dragged to Him by the power of God’s holy spirit (Joh 6:44).  For an in-depth study on this chapter in Exodus, please see Ato’s excellent study on Chapter 19 here: Exodus 19:1-25 I Bore you on Eagles’ Wings and Brought you unto Myself.

For today, we will use this chapter to expound upon the significance of the Shofar, and although the first mention of the word Shofar is in verse 16, we will read the whole chapter to lay the groundwork for the message about this instrument, starting with verse 1:

Exo 19:1  In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.

Arriving at Sinai from Egypt in the third month symbolizes the early stages of the process of judgment [#3] required in our sojourn to start to ‘come out of her my people’ so that we may be accepted by God (2Co 6:17). Then we are worked with through a lifetime of deeper, more purifying, foundation-laying judgment by His hand that will make up the purified “gold, silver, [and] precious stones” within the body of Christ (Mat 21:44, 1Co 3:12, Mal 3:17).

Exo 19:2  For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.
Exo 19:3  And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;

Moses is a type of Christ, Who comes into our life as we come out of Egypt, bringing the message of salvation typified by what Moses says to the children of Israel by God’s command (Joh 12:49, Joh 20:21, Joh 3:17-18, Oba 1:21).

Joh 20:21  Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

Joh 3:17  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Joh 3:18  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Oba 1:21  And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’S.

Exo 19:4  Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.
Exo 19:5  Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed [typifying a disciple indeed who continues in the word (Joh 8:31-32, 1Jn 5:2-3)], and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: [typifying the peculiar and treasured people God’s people become today with the hope of glory within us (1Pe 2:9) as a treasure in earthen vessels (2Co 4:7)]

This thought of deliverance from Egypt via eagles’ wings, where Israel endured many a great fight of affliction and then was given deliverance through the wilderness as a nation through belief in God, is the typical experience given to Israel for the elect’s sake and is explained in these verses (Rom 5:10, Heb 3:7-19).

Rom 5:10  For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, [Passover – coming out of Egypt with the blood on the doorposts] much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. 

Heb 3:7  Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice [represented by the Shofar],
Heb 3:8  Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 
Heb 3:9  When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. 
Heb 3:10  Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
Heb 3:11  So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) 
Heb 3:12  Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Heb 3:13  But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. [Mat 24:12-13]
Heb 3:14  For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; [Heb 10:35, Php 3:3, Php 2:12-13, Col 1:27]
Heb 3:15  While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice [represented by the Shofar], harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. 
Heb 3:16  For some, when they had heard, did provoke: [symbolizing those who are not permitted to continue on to perfection (Heb 6:3-6)] howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. 
Heb 3:17  But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? 
Heb 3:18  And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? 
Heb 3:19  So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief [Joh 6:28-29].

Exo 19:6  And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
Exo 19:7  And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.
Exo 19:8  And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.

These verses further demonstrate what God’s intention has always been for the spiritual Israel of God (Gal 6:16). The first man Adam is also typified by the nation of Israel claiming “All that the LORD hath spoken we will do”, but in the end the majority could not truly hear or follow through, and ended up rebelling in the wilderness, as per the counsel of God’s will (Mat 22:14, Eph 1:11). Only Christ in us (Rom 8:9) as our hope of glory (Col 1:27) can truly hear and make that obedience to God’s word possible as we are received by God via His chastening and scourging grace, not despising that process but bringing forth fruit meet for repentance through it (Heb 12:6-7, Mat 3:8).

Exo 19:9  And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.

While in these earthen vessels, we see through a glass darkly, a thick cloud, making it possible for us to know God in part through the resurrected Christ (1Co 13:12). Moses typifies Christ bringing that message of hope to and through the body of Christ, a message that says in time all the world will also hear “and believe thee for ever” (1Co 15:22).

Exo 19:10  And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
Exo 19:11  And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

We have already been told that Israel has left Egypt on the third day. Now Moses, again as a type of Christ, is told by God to go and introduce this need to “sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes.” That washing also symbolizes the early stages of being washed by the word of God, more specifically via these carnal ordinances which should serve to show us that no amount of works (“let them wash their clothes” Isa 4:1, Isa 64:6) can sanctify us in the same way God’s judgments upon us do (Heb 9:10-14). 

Heb 9:10  Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
Heb 9:11  But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 
Heb 9:12  Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Heb 9:13  For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
Heb 9:14  How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

At the start of our sojourn we need these “divers washings, and carnal ordinances” that act as a schoolmaster making us “ready against the third day.” What happens on the third day with Israel is symbolic of what happens to the body of Christ “at that day” (Joh 14:20) when we begin to believe by being given eyes that see and ears that hear (Mat 13:16-17, 1Co 15:46), with judgment upon the house of God which we are (1Pe 4:17, Rev 8:13). 

1Co 15:46  Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

Rev 8:13  And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!

Exo 19:12  And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death: 
Exo 19:13  There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpetH3104 soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount. 

This verse typifies the truth that no man can come to the Son unless the Father draws him (Joh 6:44). When we go beyond the bounds God sets for us, it is akin to leaving our first estate (Jud 1:6) or trying to take the kingdom by force (Mat 11:12), despising God’s goodness that leads us to repentance (Rom 2:4), symbolized by this other wind instrument, the trumpetH3104, used to tell Israel when to “come up to the mount.” We either hear and obey the sound of the trumpet, or we hear it and despise it by not taking heed to the message the messenger of the Lord brings. God is the one who knows our hearts which must continue to be examined as we die daily when we hear the silver trumpet [the trumpetH3104 “Christ’s voice”] that calls us to action, to “come up to the mount” (Rom 8:14-16, Psa 120:1, Jas 4:7). This trumpet sounds long as a shadow of the truth that the message of salvation has sounded long for those who hear that message and take heed, a message that was revealed in the old covenant and is able to make us wise unto salvation, with its “here a little, there a little…precept upon precept…old and new wine…breadth, and length, and depth, and height” message (2Ti 3:15, Eph 3:18).

Exo 19:14  And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
Exo 19:15  And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.

Moses now goes down to the people and sanctifies them by giving the message from the Lord that they need to wash their clothes. The men are told to “come not at your wives” with the need to have their attention on the matter at hand, which is God’s judgment in their lives, preparing for this time of spiritual battle (2Sa 11:11) toward spiritual purity (Jas 4:8).

2Sa 11:11  And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing. 

Jas 4:8  Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

Exo 19:16  And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpetH7782 exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.

So all the previous verses lead up to this dramatic moment and first mention of the shofar symbolizing the fearful event of falling into the hands of the Lord “on the third day in the morning” when we begin to be crushed under the stone by way of His judgments which are a fearful thing to fall into (Mat 21:44, Heb 10:31). Those judgments are explained with these words “that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpetH7782 exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled” (Rev 8:5-6). The trumpet that soundeth long and is exceeding loud also reminds us that in the day God’s judgments fill the earth during the reign of the saints, this same long and loud message will be given by God’s hand via the body of Christ (Rev 18:6, Eph 3:10).

Rev 8:5  And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. 
Rev 8:6  And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. 

Rev 18:6  Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.

Eph 3:10  To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

Exo 19:17  And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether partH8482 of the mount.

It is only when we see ourselves as the chief of sinners and guilty of all, in the lowermost area, in the pit, and in need of judgment, that we become blessed to experience God’s judgment upon us, which is what the next two verses begin to discuss (Exo 19:18-19). He takes us out of that pit once He brings us to see our “poor, and blind, and naked” state in these marred vessels of clay (Rev 3:17, Joh 9:41, Luk 15:17). It is only in this position of taking the lower seat, symbolized by “the nether part of the mount” (Luk 14:10), that we can be lifted out of “an horrible pit” (Psa 40:2-3).

Rev 3:17  Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

Joh 9:41  Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

Psa 40:2  He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
Psa 40:3  And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

Exo 19:18  And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Exo 19:19  And when the voice of the trumpetH7782 sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.

Our God is a consuming fire (Heb 12:29), and our Lord Yahweh, who is our Olam Father, comes into our lives and consumes all that can be consumed, as He descends from heaven creating a contrite and broken heart (Isa 66:2). This can only happen when “mount Sinai [is] altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.” The long and waxing louder and louder message of the gospel is the truth that, if we continue in it, will set us free (Joh 8:31-32), otherwise we will wax worse and worse. God has called the elect to see and hear the gospel with spiritual eyes and ears that should be persuaded by Christ’s voice in their leaders, as Israel should have been (but could not, by God’s will) with Moses (Heb 13:17, 1Co 14:37).

Heb 13:17 Be persuaded by your leaders, and be deferring to them, for they are vigilant for the sake of your souls, as having to render an account, that they may be doing this with joy, and not with groaning, for this is disadvantageous for you.” [CLV]

1Co 14:37  If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. 

Exo 19:20  And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
Exo 19:21  And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.
Exo 19:22  And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them. 

Moses represents those who are called by the Lord and raised in heavenly places (Eph 2:6) “to the top of the mount” where Moses receives the instruction of the Lord telling him to go down and “charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.” The people represent the yet unconverted world who cannot see the Lord from the perspective Moses has and therefore cannot eat at the Lord’s table at which Moses symbolizes eating in this story (Heb 13:10-12). Breaking through would be like touching the ark, which would bring immediate death to anyone who did (1Ch 13:9). Then we learn that before the priests come near to the LORD, they also must “sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.” This sanctifying of “the priests also, which [do] come near to the LORD” represents the necessary purification process that is akin to being called but not chosen of God. It is however impossible for these priests to come near at this time, as we see in our next couple of verses below (Exo 19:23-24). That closeness to God is reserved for the elect, symbolized by Moses and Aaron who typify those who are purified first in this life, that being Christ and His Christ (Mal 3:3, 1Jn 3:2-3).

Mal 3:3  And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.

[It is Aaron’s sons who typify those who will come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau (Oba 1:21, 1Co 6:3). Aaron’s sons represent the elect who will be used to “purify the sons of Levi” the priests who were not allowed to go up on the mount at that time, the sons of Levi (Exo 19:24)]

1Jn 3:2  Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 
1Jn 3:3  And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Exo 19:23  And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
Exo 19:24  And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them. 
Exo 19:25  So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them. 

The sanctification process (Joh 17:17) the elect endure in this life through the seven last plagues (Rev 15:8) is what these verses represent (Exo 19:23-25). It is only Moses and Aaron who represent Christ and His body who can come up to the LORD. The rest are warned, including the priests! Then “Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them”, telling the people of this time, in type and shadow, that many are called, but few are chosen (Mat 22:14), the few being represented by Moses and Aaron.

Conclusion

We have only looked at the first two entries of the word ‘Shophar’ [H7782] and learned that this instrument’s sound represents the powerful voice of God (Psa 29:4-9). 

Psa 29:4  The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty. 
Psa 29:5  The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon. 
Psa 29:6  He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn. 
Psa 29:7  The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire. 
Psa 29:8  The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh. 
Psa 29:9  The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory. 

The power God gives the elect to speak the truth in love (1Co 2:5, Eph 4:15) can only be found in those who are having their power taken away by dying daily (Mat 10:39, 1Co 15:31). That power we have in our flesh is represented by the curved horn of the Shofar, which would traditionally be taken from a ram or a goat. Taking away a beast’s horns takes away their power, and this is the principle point in the lives of those who are called to lose their lives, their power and their own righteousnesses, so that the life of Christ can be manifest through these broken and contrite earthen vessels whom He is shaping to house the spirit of God (Col 1:27, Rom 8:29). Just as the shofar has the breath breathed through it, symbolizing the spirit of God, the words of God, so, too, does the life of Christ that comes into our hearts and minds as our earthly wisdom decreases as we die daily and He increases within us (Joh 3:30). The spirit of God [the wind, the breath] blows through the shofar that is held by the priest symbolizing how Christ gives us a far greater power in this life (Jos 6:16, 1Jn 4:4). He makes it possible for us to fight a good fight of faith to obtain eternal life as we overcome the earthly powers and principalities to which we die to daily, powers we see being manifest in the hearts and minds of mankind continually (Luk 6:45, 1Ti 6:12, Eph 6:12, Eph 1:21-23, Heb 7:26).

Eph 6:12  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 

Eph 1:21  Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: 
Eph 1:22  And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 
Eph 1:23  Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. 

Heb 7:26  For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; 

Next week we will continue to look at some more entries of the word ShofarH7782 to further understand what the spiritual significance of this instrument is for God’s people today.

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“Musical Instruments in the bible” Part 4 – Wind [Kehren=Cornet, Mashroqiy=Flute]

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This musical instrument, found only in the book of Daniel, was commonly used in the court of Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar. According to Clarke’s Commentary, it was a horn that could make a deep and hollow sound as well as one that was piercing.

The cornet, along with other instruments, was used by Nebuchadnezzar at the dedication of a huge golden statue in his likeness. The statue was 60 cubits (at least 87.5 feet or 26.7 meters) tall by six cubits (8.75 feet or 2.67 meters) wide.

Babylon’s officials, as well as the people, were commanded to bow down and worship the image when they heard the instruments play (Dan 3:3-5). All those refusing to do so would be put to death in a fiery furnace. Daniel’s three friends, who rejected this idolatry, were thrown into this fiery trial of their faith but were miraculously saved by God (Dan 3:6-27).

This instrument is found only in Daniel in the KJV. It, along with others, were used by Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar to signal when those he ruled over were to worship a huge golden statue made in his likeness. The mashroqiy may have been the Chaldean name for a flute with two reeds. Tyndale’s Dictionary and the ISBE believe it was similar to a Pan pipe.

What we hear in this life, and the way that we hear it, and how we respond to what we hear is what this study is going to focus on. Both instruments we are looking at, [“the Kehren=Cornet and the Mashroqiy=Flute”], are associated with false worship, and in particular the worship of king Nebuchadnezzar who is a type of Satan who is the god of this world (2Co 4:3-4).

2Co 4:3  But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 
2Co 4:4  In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

All the verses that contain the two instruments we will be looking at, the Kehren=Cornet and the Mashroqiy=Flute, are found in the third chapter of Daniel (Dan 3:1-30). This chapter of Daniel shows us, through symbolic language, how God’s elect, typified by Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, are juxtaposed against this world going through a process of judgment that forms the mind of Christ in us through fiery trials (1Pe 4:12, 1Pe 4:17) so we can overcome any and all obstacles, both physical and spiritual and not be separated from “the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom 8:35-39). It is when we hear the voice of the true Shepherd and are given to try the spirits of this world and reject Satan’s influence that we will discern what the will of God is for us in this life (Rom 8:14-16, 1Jn 4:1, 1Jn 2:15-17).

Rom 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 
Rom 8:15  For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 
Rom 8:16  The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

1Jn 4:1  Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

1Jn 2:15  Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1Jn 2:16  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1Jn 2:17  And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

The sound which both of these instruments make typifies what fills the spiritual airwaves of the world that we live in today via the prince of the power of the air (Eph 2:2).

Eph 2:2  Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

It is Satan’s competitive, self-centered, self-willed, devil-centric mind, that works in the children of disobedience today creating an iniquitous or self-righteous language that brings a perverted cohesiveness to this spiritually dead world, that those who are driven by it hear and understand (1Jn 4:1-8, Mat 24:12, Eze 33:13). 

1Jn 4:1  Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 
1Jn 4:2  Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 
1Jn 4:3  And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
1Jn 4:4  Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world (Col 1:27).
1Jn 4:5  They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
1Jn 4:6  We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. 
1Jn 4:7  Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1Jn 4:8  He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Mat 24:12  And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. [Fullness of the fruit of this world at the end of the age – as love waxes cold, self-righteousness will abound more and more through those who wax worse and worse at the end of the age (2Ti 3:1, 2Ti 3:12-14)]

Eze 33:13  When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it. (1Pe 4:18, Php 3:9-10)

Php 3:9  And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: [Luk 22:32]
Php 3:10  That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; [1Co 10:16] 

The tower of Babel could only be accomplished by God causing the masses to be able to communicate and understand and share in the desire to build this great structure, all according to the counsel of His will (Eph 1:11). This tower represents the marred vessel in the Potter’s hand, and the progress of Satan’s world is being typified by its construction which must come to a fullness of sorts (Gen 15:16) that will ultimately be exposed by the fruit that Babylon and the tower of Babel produce (Luk 6:43-45, Gen 11:6-9). 

Gen 15:16  But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

Luk 6:43  For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 
Luk 6:44  For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. 
Luk 6:45  A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

Gen 11:6  And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 
Gen 11:7  Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
Gen 11:8  So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Gen 11:9  Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

The languages of the builders of this tower in the end were confused, causing division and discord as opposed to the day of Pentecost when the many different tongues that were gathered on that day could both hear and speak in a language that was intelligible to each other, symbolizing the unity that is in the body of Christ who share the same mind of Christ (Act 2:1-13).

Act 2:1  And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 
Act 2:2  And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 
Act 2:3  And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 
Act 2:4  And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. 
Act 2:5  And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. 
Act 2:6  Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. 
Act 2:7  And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? 
Act 2:8  And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? 
Act 2:9  Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, 
Act 2:10  Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
Act 2:11  Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God. 
Act 2:12  And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this? 
Act 2:13  Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.

The perverted cohesion of this world’s spiritual language is coupled with opposition, brother against brother, and more and more witnessing to the fragility of every relationship that was always there without the life of Christ within us as our foundation (Mat 10:21-22, Mat 18:15). What comes to mind is the statue in the book of Daniel that represents the societies of this world, and reveals how all the world was always founded on a very tentative weak and marred foundation of iron and clay (Dan 2:33-35).

Mat 10:21  And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death [not dealing with sin, whose wages are death (Rom 6:23)], and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death (Eze 33:1-9).
Mat 10:22  And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

Eze 33:1  Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 
Eze 33:2  Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: 
Eze 33:3  If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; 
Eze 33:4  Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. 
Eze 33:5  He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. 
Eze 33:6  But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand. 
Eze 33:7  So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.
Eze 33:8  When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Eze 33:9  Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. 

Mat 18:15  Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: [deal with the sin; fervent love covers a multitude of sin (1Pe 4:8)] if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

Dan 2:33  His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. 
Dan 2:34  Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
Dan 2:35  Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

Conversely, when Christ is on the throne of our hearts, we are always trying these spirits in the world which demand our attention and ultimately want to rule over us. By the grace through faith process we experience with Christ in our lives, we are able to come out of mystery Babylon by hearing the voice of the true Shepherd who is leading us into paths of righteousness for His name’s sake so that we are not ruled over by evil, but overcome evil through God’s goodness that is working in our lives (Rev 18:4-5, Psa 23:3-4, Rom 12:21). We may hear the sound of the cornet and the glute [“the Kehren=Cornet and the Mashroqiy=Flute”], but we are not to love its sound or be enticed by pleasures of sin for a season around which these instruments are centered (1Jn 2:15, 1Jn 3:1).

Rev 18:4  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 
Rev 18:5  For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

Psa 23:3  He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Psa 23:4  Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Rom 12:21  Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

1Jn 2:15  Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

1Jn 3:1  Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

The iniquities of this life must come to their fullness in the lives of all humanity, evil men waxing worse and worse, the sins of the Amorites being fulfilled, “iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” However you put it, the point is the same which is that God is going to cause these things to be manifest in mankind (Gen 45:5), and especially at the end of the age, so that the natural way in which mankind hears and sees, which is with a self-righteous heart and mind (Jer 17:9-10), will be profoundly exposed (Mat 24:12). 

Gen 45:5  Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. 

Jer 17:9  The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 
Jer 17:10  I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

Mat 24:12  And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

With this backdrop let’s now look at the verses that have these two instruments in them, starting with the Kehren or CornetH7162 that is first mentioned in these verses of the third chapter of Daniel (Dan 3:5, Dan 3:7, Dan 3:10, Dan 3:15). 

Dan 3:4  Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, 
Dan 3:5  That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornetH7162, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:
Dan 3:6  And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

As mentioned, Nebuchadnezzar is a type of Satan, and like Satan he is not content in this society to just set up the idols of his heart to present to the unsuspecting deceived masses, but also commands everyone to “fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up”, and if not you will “be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.”  This fiery furnace typifies the fiery trials of the elect’s faith (1Pe 4:12, 1Pe 1:7) which is to be hated and rejected by all the world for coming out of Babylon and touching not the unclean thing, as we are accepted of our Father through Christ (Heb 12:6-7). It is through a process of judgment [Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego], of fiery trials and of much tribulation that this self-righteous spirit which naturally abides within us will be ruled over and eventually destroyed, going unto perfection on the third day, Lord willing (Eph 1:6-7, Luk 13:32).

Heb 12:6  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 
Heb 12:7  If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

1Pe 1:7  That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

Eph 1:6  To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. 
Eph 1:7  In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; 

Luk 13:32  And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.

God is not the author of confusion but of peace (1Co 14:33), and He will use all of this weakness of flesh controlled by a self-righteous spirit to one day convince the world of His sovereignty over the marred vessel of clay we all are (Mat 7:22). His victory in the lives of those with whom He is working is certain (Rom 5:10), and God will bring the saints to a place of understanding how we are to be as merciful to this world as Christ was to all of us on the cross, which is where we can abide His chastening grace through the faith of Christ (Luk 23:34, Gal 2:20).

Mat 7:22  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? [Self-righteous actions or works that do not acknowledge God’s sovereign hand that formed the light and created darkness and makes peace and creates evil (Isa 45:7) to come about within the vessels in His hand that do not have free moral agency (Rom 9:21)] 

1Co 14:33  For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

Rom 5:10  For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

Luk 23:34  Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.

Gal 2:20  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 

The cornet, as we see here, is associated with a very powerful beast [the elephant] whose ivory tooth represents the false light of self-righteousness, the servant who comes to us as an angel of light, blowing his horn that deceives the masses but is very distinctly not the voice of the true shepherd in the ears of those with whom God is working (2Co 11:14-15, Joh 10:27-29). The other entries of the word “cornet”, (Dan 3:7, Dan 3:10, Dan 3:15), are again pointing to the direction that the god of this world is taking this world, which will ultimately lead to the destruction of all flesh when the battle cry is made to go up against the camp of the saints spoken of in Revelation 20:8.

2Co 11:14  And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 
2Co 11:15  Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

Joh 10:27  My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 
Joh 10:28  And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 
Joh 10:29  My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.

Rev 20:8  And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

The “cornet”H7162 which we just looked at in Daniel 3, is the same Strong’s number used as “horn/s” in these verses in the book of Daniel, (horn – Dan 7:8, Dan 7:11, Dan 7:20, Dan 7:21  horns – Dan 7:7, Dan 7:8, Dan 7:20, Dan 7:24), verses that are very revealing as they confirm that this instrument which was blowing at the time of this pagan decree of Nebuchadnezzar to worship the golden idol is connected to the composite beast of  Daniel 7:7 that describes the power of the man of perdition on the throne of our beastly hearts prior to Christ dethroning or destroying him by the brightness of his coming into our heavens (2Th 2:8). 

Dan 7:7  After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
Dan 7:8  I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things. 

2Th 2:8  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 

It is the fourth beast that is “dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly” spoken of in Daniel 7:7 that is again mentioned in Daniel 7:19-20 and whose “horn”H7162 is this same Strong’s number for “cornet.”H7162

Dan 7:19  Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet; [Rev 13:4]
Dan 7:20  And of the ten hornsH7162 that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that hornH7162 that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.

The last entry for the word “horns”H7162 is found in Daniel 7:24 where we learn of the saints’ victory over the powers and principalities against which we wrestle in our heavens our entire lives, concluding in the reward spoken of for the overcomers in Daniel 7:27, “And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him“, a truth that is mirrored in Revelation 11:15, “And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.”

Dan 7:24  And the ten hornsH7162 out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. 
Dan 7:25  And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. 
Dan 7:26  But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
Dan 7:27  And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

Rev 11:15  And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

This instrument is found only in Daniel in the KJV. It, along with others, was used by Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar to signal when those he ruled over were to worship a huge golden statue made in his likeness. The mashroqiy may have been the Chaldean name for a flute with two reeds. Tyndale’s Dictionary and the ISBE believe it was similar to a Pan pipe.

These are all the verses where the Strong’s number for Mashroqiy, which means flute, is used: (Dan 3:5, Dan 3:7, Dan 3:10, Dan 3:15), and they are all found in the same context of idol worship regarding Nebuchadnezzar. The cornet and the flute were being played together, and in that sense the combination of sounds represents the idolatrous relationship any of us takes on when we join ourselves to the traditions of men (Mar 7:7). So the flute and cornet in this instance are both being used in a negative and joint capacity (Rom 6:16).

Mar 7:7  Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. 

Rom 6:16  Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

The complex sounds and harmonies these many instruments spoken of in Daniel 3:5 produce, remind us that the pleasures of sin for a season are just that, pleasures for a season that will pass away (Heb 11:25-26), “but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever” (1Jn 2:17).

Dan 3:5  That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:

Heb 11:25  Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; 
Heb 11:26  Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

1Jn 2:17  And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

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