Honorable Musicians Misicing Honorably

Honorable Musicians Musicing Honorably   

Isaiah 5:12-13 states, “And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine are in their feasts: but they regard not the works of the LORD, neither consider the operation of thy hands.  Therefore, my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried with thirst.”  

       Chapter five begins with the song of the vineyard.  This parable tells of Israel producing the wrong kind of fruit.  Verse eleven tells the story of a nation that had made several spiritual mistakes.  One was that they didn’t regard the work of then LORD and another was that they had failed to consider the works of the mighty “hands’ of Jehovah.  The result was that the knowledgeable men had been worn out, no doubt, trying to teach the people the knowledge of the LORD.  When those honorable men could no longer proclaim the way and will of the LORD, the people no longer had “knowledge’ so the multitude was dried up from spiritual thirst. 

       Now, in verse twenty the prophet declares, “woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil, that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.”  This whole scenario sounds familiar doesn’t it?  We are now in an age that considers all traditional musicing to be non-productive and that only non- traditional music is capable of being efficacious.

       Chief musician do not be weary in well doing.  If you are conservative in your musical views, and if you fear the Lord when you music unto Him, you will not be popular.  Do not give up or very soon the song in the Holy place will only be “wild grapes’ and  God honoring music will be called evil and the music of the matrix of Satan will be called light.