Noise of war in the camp

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"Supernova Sukkot Gathering was a weekend-long outdoor trance music festival that began on 6 October 2023^[16][17] and was produced by an organizer called Nova^[18][8] (also referred to as Tribe of Nova).^[19] It was the Israeli edition (pre-festival event) of Universo Paralello, a psytrance festival started 23 years prior in Bahia, Brazil.^[17] It took place in the western Negev desert,^[8] approximately 5 km (3.1 mi) from the Gaza–Israel barrier, near kibbutz Re'im.^[6][18] The line-up included artists well-known in the psytrance scene, such as Astral Projection and Man With No Name.^[17] "

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

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

"They said they were offering the sacrifices to God, but He responded, 'Were you really doing it to me? You did all the rites and rituals I gave you to do through Moses, but look what you were doing!'

"You guys went out and took the Baal worship and that was what was really in Israel's heart," explains Richard Jordan. "They were professing to worship God, but in reality they're denying Him by worshipping a false religion. The class of people doing that were the ones leading the nation.

"Here's the people that were in that era in Amos 6:

[3] Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
[4] That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
[5] That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;

"Now, that's a fascinating verse. Look back at chapter 5:

[21] I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
[22] Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
[23] Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

"They're singing but their music is just noise. We looked at that passage back in Exodus 32 where they hear the 'noise of war in the camp' and it was really music and they were dancing. They were literally worshipping around the golden calf with dance music.

"It says they 'chant to the sound of the viol.' Chants are things you repeat over and over and over and over and over again. They're a very common thing in religion. When you hear about people meditating and that kind of thing, there are the chants and things they recite over and over again. Liturgy kind of things. 

"It says they 'invent to themselves instruments of music like David.' That's just pure hypocrisy. They're saying, 'We're doing what David did,' but they're not doing anything of the kind. 

I Chronicles 23:5: [5] Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.

"When David made instruments of music, what did he make them for? To praise the Lord with. David understood the power of music; he understood how effective music can be.

"David, by the way, was a great musician. As a young man on the hills of Israel tending his dad's sheep he learned to be a musician and he had a tremendous skill in it. 

I Samuel 16:

[15] And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee.
[16] Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: 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.
[17] And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.
[18] Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him.
[19] Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.

"Notice, David understood that he could accomplish some things with his playing. He had a reputation as somebody who knew how to use music to get things done.

"Saul's having one of his fits and David plays with his hands and the result is that Saul's soul was refreshed. There was an emotional, mental impact and it was well--there was a physical impact. The evil spirit departed, which was the spiritual impact. He was affected in his spirit, soul and body.

"Music is designed to affect you in your spirit, soul and body, and if you're not careful, you see music can duplicate and counterfeit the work of God the Holy Spirit.

"What the Holy Spirit is designed to do by taking His Word and working in your heart and your spirit, music can do too. David understood that, so David made instruments.

I Chronicles 16: [42] And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were porters.

"I want you to see there that 'musical instruments of God.' Now, compare that verse to Genesis 4, when Moses describes the development of mankind before the Flood; the society developed by Adam's descendants prior to the Flood that resulted in the violence that took over the earth.

"One of Cain's descendants is described in verse 21: [21] And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.

"What Jubal did is he took their leisure time to develop the arts and entertainment, and what they were doing was covering over, putting a veneer on the rebellious culture. They were living in complete rebellion against what God gave them to do.

"God told them to scatter, and they were doing exactly what the people were doing in Genesis 11, living contrary to the way God instructed them to live and involved in that, they developed this cultural sophistication to say, 'Look at how good what we're doing is!'

"They developed musical instruments and musical arrangements and so forth in order to accomplish what they wanted to do.

"David, when he invented musical instruments, he was doing it for a godly purpose. A trumpet, viol, or harp as instruments are neutral; it' what you do with it and how you use it that's the issue and David understood that.

"These people said, 'We're doing what David did! We're praising God, Hallelujah!' Notice that verse in Amos 6 says they 'invent to themselves instruments of music.' That's Genesis 4:21.

"They were out just satisfying their own selves. Religion is designed to satisfy the lust of your flesh and there's no place your flesh gets more gratification instantly in your spirit, soul and body than in music. It's one of the two or three most dangerous things that happens in your life and in your family's life."