The Psalm 23 Adventure, Part 44
June 16, 2017
One more story before we get started
today, if you don’t mind, about our granddaughter, Jasmine. Without getting into a lot of unnecessary
detail, she has sort of been “the odd man out,” to use an old cliché. She came into the family after the other
children were already on the scene and struggled initially to gain acceptance
with the other children, as well as many of her peers. The consequence of it was that she became
very territorial. Her things were her
things, and she was slow to share with her brothers and her younger sister.
Last week, I told you about the
deliverance prayers that took place a few Sundays ago around the breakfast
table. Jasmine, Alden and Elijah have
all been going to the Sylvan Learning Center in order to play catch-up
academically. At the end of each week at
Sylvan, each one of them are given what amounts to credits that they can spend
on some toy or special item in Sylvan’s “store.”
Elijah and Alden have not been
savers, and they have been quick to spend their credits every week. Jasmine, on the other hand, has literally
saved every credit since beginning at Sylvan Learning Center. Last Saturday, Jasmine decided it was time to
spend her credits which, by now, were pretty considerable. She went through the “store” and picked out
three items – the total of which, literally spent every credit she had. She kept them in a bag concealed from her
brothers and when she got home, she asked me for some paper and some paper that
she could wrap these items with.
At an appropriate moment, she
brought them out and presented gifts to each of her brothers and her
sister. She had kept nothing for
herself. It was a demonstration of a
place of deliverance that had taken place in her – and I have to tell you,
Della and I were quite overwhelmed at what took place. It was another “Praise the Lord” moment!
As
noted in last week’s discussion, we’ve barely scratched the surface of this
revelation of the anointing. I’m not
sure I can cover everything we need to discuss today, and if this extends
across another week or two, you’ll understand once we get underway.
Let’s
retrace some steps that we covered last week beginning with Ezekiel’s prophecy.
Ezekiel 28:12-19:
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of
wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast
been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering,
the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the
onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold:
the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared
in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth;
and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the
holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones
of fire. Thou wast
perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast
created, till iniquity was found in thee.
By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst
of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as
profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub,
from the midst of the stones of fire.
Thine
heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by
reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee
before kings, that they may behold thee.
Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore
will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I
will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold
thee. All they that know thee among the
people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a
terror, and never shalt thou be any
more.
There
is a rather interesting phrase – and one peculiar to Hebrew phraseology -- that
occurs twice in Ezekiel’s prophecy.
What
the Lord is saying is this, ”Thou art the anointed
cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so:” Then He says, “I
will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.”
The
first thing we see is that Lucifer was “the anointed cherub
that covereth.” The Lord says that “I
have set thee so.” The construction of
the Hebrew here is what we need to understand, and that understanding has to
come in the context of what we are seeing and hearing.
This
“cherub” was anointed to “cover” the Throne of God. The Lord says of him, ”the
workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was
prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.”
The
KJV rather obscures the significance of the Hebrew. Where we read the word, “workmanship,” the
Hebrew word here is, mela.kah, and it actually
translates as “ministry.” It means: to be
commissioned, to be deputized, to be employed for a specific purpose.
Now,
put that within the framework of God’s statement that he was anointed.
Next,
consider the two words that describe what kind of ministry he was anointed for:
“tabrets and pipes.”
The Lord is describing musical instruments. When you put all of Ezekiel’s prophecy in its
proper context, you see that Lucifer was anointed to “cover” the Throne with
praise and worship. In fact, the Hebrew
word translated in the KJV as “covereth” is, “sakak.”
It has a broad range of meanings, but it literally means: to fence
in, to hedge in, to defend, to protect, to entwine, to cover over.
Do
you see it? Lucifer’s ministry was to
cover the Throne of God with praise and worship, to hedge it in, to literally
entwine Father with the continuous sound of praise and worship.
Notice
that one of the primary meanings of sakak is: to protect.
David
certainly understood the protective nature of praise and worship! The Psalms are filled from one end to the
other with descriptions of the defense, the protection that David knew in
praise and worship. We don’t think of it
in those realms, and certainly not with respect to God, but this is something
that we live and experience on a day-to-day basis because of the nature of our
business and labors for the Kingdom.
Before
we take this the next step, consider Isaiah’s prophecy.
Isaiah 14:5-20:
The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled
the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
The
whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into
singing. Yea, the fir trees rejoice at
thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid
down, no feller is come up against us.
Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming:
it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the
chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of
the nations. All they shall speak and
say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto
us? Thy pomp is brought down to the
grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and
the worms cover thee.
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how
art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in
thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt
my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the
congregation, in the sides of the north:
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most
High.
Yet thou shalt be brought down to
hell, to the sides of the pit. They that
see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is
this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness,
and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his
prisoners? All the kings of the nations,
even all of them, lie in glory, every one in
his own house.
But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and
as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that
go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase
trodden under feet. Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast
destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall
never be renowned.
We
won’t take time to go into all of the aspects of the judgment pronounced upon
Lucifer, and the judgments and curses that came upon those who followed him (as
well as those who follow him and his example today), but think about the
overall context of what took place when he was thrown out of Heaven.
He
lost his place around the Throne. He
lost the right to be entwined with the Lord God in the midst of praise and
worship. He lost that place of
protection and covering for which he had been anointed. He had corrupted praise and worship, and with
it, the sound in music generally. In
Isaiah’s prophecy, he refers to “the noise of thy
viols.” This word, “viols,” comes from the Hebrew, nebel, which is a word for the lyre, the harp —
stringed instruments in general.
Allow
me to digress for just a minute to give you an example. Throughout the Word, we have musical
frequencies which abound. For example,
the sound of creation in Genesis is based on what we consider to be the key of
“A” on the piano. What is significant is
that the frequency in the Word is 444 for “A.”
By the same token, when you see healing in the Word, the frequency is
523, or “C” on the piano.
When
you listen to the old classical masters like Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Handel,
etc., they based their music in the frequency, 444. At some point during the past couple hundred
years, someone decided that they didn’t like the results that came when
listening to music keyed in these frequencies.
They lowered “A” to 440 (for the common people) and 442 for concert
pitch. That simple change took away the
exactness of what God had ordained for creative purposes, for healing, for
peace and rest, etc. That simple
corruption has affected generations of people as they listen to music.
I
was never a fan of the Beatles, but somehow they discovered the significance of
this shift and wrote all of their music based on the 444 scale. I’m indebted to folks like Ray Hughes, David
Van Koevering, and Michael Tyrell for their research
and studies. May I suggest to you that
you Google “Wholetones.” Michael Tyrell has put together a series of
CD’s with all of the fundamental frequencies found in the Word and their impact
on our existence.
OK,
back to the subject at hand. We were
talking about “the noise of thy viols.” No
Hebrew word better describes what has happened in the music world — and,
unfortunately, in generations of “Christian” or “Gospel” music. That word, “noise” comes from the Hebrew, hemyah, (which refers specifically to music) and
its root, hamah, which literally
means: to be in great commotion or tumult, to rage, to war, to clamor,
to be excessively loud, to be in an uproar.
See the picture?
Lucifer
— now Satan — has waged war against the realm of true, intimate praise and
worship. The unadulterated **** that
passes for praise and worship in some circles is anything but! Excuse me for being so … umm … pointed, but
after you’ve spent time in the presence of the Lord, really enjoying the peace
and rest of His being in you while in praise and worship, nothing else even
begins to come close!
I’ve
gotten a tad off track so let’s back up a bit.
This would easily become a book if I were to begin citing all of the
Scriptures that demonstrate this, but something phenomenal happened when Satan
was cast out of Heaven. He lost his
place around the Throne. He lost the
place of praise and worship with which he’d been anointed to surround Father.
So
God did something stupendous! He said,
“I’m going to create a people, a species of being, a family of my design to
take Lucifer’s place. I’m going to create
a people who will bring pleasure to me.
This species of being will be like me.
They will not be sub-beings like angels who are only created to obey my
commands. They will be created in my
image and likeness. They will surround
the Throne! They will surround me! They will think and speak like me!”
And
for roughly two thousand years in the Garden, Father God had that kind of
intimate relationship with Adam and Eve.
They walked together. They talked
together. They fellowshipped
together. The sound and song of Adam and
Eve’s existence was praise and worship to the ears of the Lord. There’s a secret here that we’ll come to in
due time.
This
picture becomes more and more fascinating and revelatory as it unfolds, so let
me quit for today, and let’s continue this narrative next week.
For those of you
who’ve been participating in our Monday night Healing Prayer Conference Call,
we just want to let you know that beginning with the month of July and
continuing until the first Monday night in October, we will be taking a break
for the summer. We’ve found during the
past three years of doing this call that participation during the summer months
drops significantly because of folks taking their vacations, and being involved
in other activities. That said, we will
resume our prayer calls on Monday night, October 2nd.
At the same time, in
case you are missing out on real fellowship in an environment of Ekklesia, our Sunday worship gatherings are available by
conference call – usually at about 10:45AM Pacific. That conference number is (712) 770-4160, and the access code is 308640#. We are now making these gatherings
available by Skype. If you wish to
participate by video on Skype, my Skype ID is regner.capener. If you miss the live voice call, you can dial
(712) 770-4169, enter the same access code and listen in
later. The video call, of course, is not
recorded – not yet, anyway.
Blessings
on you!
Regner A. Capener
CAPENER MINISTRIES
RIVER WORSHIP CENTER
Temple, Texas 76504
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