10-16-2022..........MUSIC OR MUSICK..........James Herschel Lyda
Music, what is it and when did it begin?
Music began before man was created. Man did not
create music but God did. It is a pleasing sound created either by an instrument
of a pleasing sound or created by voice or some other wind instrument. In the
creation of all things, God made the birds to sing and the whales to sing in
the oceans of the earth before man was even created. Who was there to enjoy the
music before man, God!
Genesis 1: 20 ¶ And God said, Let the
waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open
firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every
living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after
their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful,
and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the
earth.
23
And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Music is generally defined as the art of
arranging sound to
create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or
otherwise expressive content.
Is there music in nature?
Perhaps our innate attraction – and universal reactions – to
various elements of music are because music
was created on a foundation based in the natural environment. Recent
research has found that the music of both humpback whales and many bird species
have surprising similarities to the structures of our human music. This shows
that man, perhaps, learned to create music from the world around him.
Colossians 3:12-17 12 ¶ Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy
and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness,
longsuffering;
13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one
another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so
also do ye.
14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of
perfectness.
15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts,
to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in
all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving
thanks to God and the Father by him.
Psalms 51: 14-15 14 ¶
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy
righteousness.
15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall
shew forth thy praise.
Singing
together to the Lord embeds the message of His love in our minds and souls. It
is a powerful ministry of teaching and encouragement that we share together.
Whether our hearts cry out, “Create in me a pure heart, O God” (Ps. 51:10), or
joyfully shout, “And he will reign forever and ever” (Rev. 11:15), the power of music that exalts God also
lifts our spirits and grants us peace. But we should sing and make music to
honor our creator and the
creator of music before He created Man. Most music we hear today and people create
is an abomination to our Holy Father who created music for His and our
enjoyment and enlightenment. Here are the commandments to make the right kind
of music.
Psalms 66:1 «To the chief Musician, A Song or Psalm.» Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:
2 Sing forth the honour of
his name: make his praise glorious.
3 Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the
greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.
4 All the earth shall worship thee, and shall
sing unto thee; they shall sing to
thy name. Selah.
Psalms 81:1 «To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph.» Sing
aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful
noise unto the God of
Jacob.
2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel,
the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the
time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
Psalms 95:1 O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us
make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before his
presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
Psalms 98:4 Make a joyful
noise unto the LORD, all
the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
5 Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the
harp, and the voice of a psalm.
6
With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise
before the LORD, the King.
1 Samuel 18:6 And it came to pass as they came, when David
was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of
all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets,
with joy, and with instruments of musick.
1 Chronicles 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 cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.
2 Chronicles 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 cymbals
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;
As the people sang
and played music upon their instruments, God appeared in the temple in the form
of a smoke cloud. This proves that
God is pleased when
we praise Him in song.
2 Chronicles 7:1 ¶
Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was
finished: and Solomon brought in all
the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold,
and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.
2
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the
tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to
bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
Remember David wanted to build the house for the
Lord but God would not let him because he had lived a life of warfare. Instead
God let David’s son Solomon build the house instead.
2 Chronicles 7:6 And the priests waited on their offices: the
Levites also with instruments of musick
of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his
mercy endureth for ever, when
David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them,
and all Israel stood.
2 Chronicles 34:12 And the
men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of
the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites,
to set it forward;
and other of the Levites, all that
could skill of instruments of musick.
by the Law the ark was the special charge of the Kohathites
Ecclesiastes 12:4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets,
when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice
of the bird, and
all the daughters of musick
shall be brought low;
Lamentations 3:63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising
up; I am their musick.
God is music to everyone who believes and keep His
commandments.
Daniel 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:
Daniel 3:7 Therefore at that time, when all the people
heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, 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.
Daniel 3:10 Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every
man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery,
and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick,
shall fall down and worship the golden image:
Daniel 3:15 Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear
the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, 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?
Nebuchadnezzar the king had a great image made and
demanded that everyone fall down and worship the idol whenever they hear music.
This was done to punish the Israelite people who were captive after they were
captured in battle.
Daniel 6:18 Then the king
went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his
sleep went from him.
Amos 6:5
That chant to the sound of the viol, and
invent to themselves instruments of musick,
like David;
Luke 15:25 Now his elder son was in the field: and as
he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.
Music consists of Rhythm, Melody, Frequency, and Tune. Music is for the glory of God
but man has corrupted it by singing some of the vilest and wicked wording and
tune songs that man can imagine. Even the tune is so vile and irritating that
it has to be for satanic purposes.
But we are commanded
to use music to honor God, the creator of everything.
Psalms 100:1 Make a joyful
noise unto the LORD, all ye
lands.
2 Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his
presence with singing.
3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it
is he that hath made
us, and not we ourselves; we are
his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be
thankful unto him, and bless his
name.
5 For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
We should make a
joyful music for the One Holy God who created us and music to celebrate a
relationship with a Holy God who sacrificed His Only Begotten Son for a people
that would not keep His commandments.