Enter His Gates With Thanksgiving and His Courts With Praise. Psalms 100:4
In my article The Genesis, I stated that the seemingly innocuous aspect of music contributed to my consideration of the peculiar state of Black Americans. Also, I asserted that I believe there was a deliberate conspiracy to destroy Black music and by extension Black people. How is this so? Before I delve into the meat of my assertion, it is necessary to burrow into the spiritual character of music. The ability of mankind to make music is in my estimation the most telling evidence of our being made in the image of God. Some people may think it is our intellect, ability to reason, or ability to construct civilizations. I think it is music because unlike people, particularly some people of the “white populous” who because of the erroneous presentation of history by their own kind chide people of Africa for purportedly never having a civilization, God is not that impressed with how many buildings and monuments men construct unto themselves.
Every civilization in antiquity that existed within the arena
of Israel such as, Egypt Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, Phoenicia,
Canaan and etc., went down with the uncircumcised as the prophets of Israel
declared and are no more. Generally,
when they were spoken against it had zilch to do with the “highness” of their
civilization. Egypt itself was brought
low because one of its pharaoh’s thoughtlessly uttered “that he had created the
Nile.” ( Ezekiel 29:3). He moronically believed his own hype and
thought he was as big as those statues of themselves pharaoh’s were fond of
erecting. And so it is with some of the
moronic sons of “white” Japheth. Their
trust and their “god” is their whiteness and American civilization. It is in the status quo, not realizing a day
is coming when their time as the gentiles will be fulfilled. However, music is eternal. It was going on before creation and will be
going on after the ages, so that as the psalmist says, “Let everything that has
breath praise the Lord.” (Psalm 150:6.)
Music itself was important in the lives of the people of
Israel. This is evident from the book of
Psalms and from other instances where music factored in lending color to a
particular episode in Israel’s journey.
For example, after the Lord defeated the Egyptians completing the
deliverance of Israel, Moses and the Israelites sang a song commemorating the
experience. (Exodus 15). In my article Prophetic Particularity, I recounted how
when David was bringing the ark to Jerusalem there was robust playing of music
I Chronicles 13:8 and perhaps a most unforgettable account of the power of
music is in the story of David playing for King Saul. One can read (I Samuel 16:14-23) for a thorough
account, but in summary when God had David anointed as King his spirit left
Saul and he sent him a distressing spirit.
Saul’s servants solution to his problem was to look for a man skilled in
playing the harp. The man they would
locate as God would have it, was David.
Whenever the distressing spirit would come upon King Saul, David would
play for him and he would become refreshed
and well, and the distressing spirit would depart from him. (I Samuel 16:23). It should be noted that they did not suggest
he call a psychologist, therapist, doctor or pharmacist. They apparently knew something about the
ability of music to address the ailments of the human spirit.
Western music owes its genesis to the
Israelites as it was their stories which inspired the musicians of the Roman
church from the Gregorian chants to Handel’s messiah. It is music which gives life its color as it
can be inspirational, reflective, soothing, triumphant, jubilant, menacing,
dark and surely other adjectives, but undeniably it can affect the spirit. The power of music is a principle known to the
principalities and powers and undoubtedly certain of their human cohorts. What is the principle it demonstrates? It is the principle of hearing. The apostle
Paul explained it thus in Romans 10:17: “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by
the word of God.” Advertisers of products know this as well. It is the reason why songs accompanying a
product in a commercial and played repeatedly stays with the person who hears
it even long after the commercial has stopped running. I can still remember the tune and some of the
words of the old Dr. Pepper commercial even though I haven’t seen it in years.
Therefore, hearing is a way to
internalize messages and if a person keeps hearing a particular message the
more likely it is to shape his perceptions and the more likely it is he will
have faith for that message. If you set
it to a catchy tune or beat, it has a certain sticking power with the ability
to evoke certain emotions. It is the
reason well written and beautifully sung music can evoke feelings of love,
sadness, joy and so forth. If you add to
that a person such as David being anointed by God to play music one can see
music being capable of driving away distressing spirits. It is a given that music song in praise to
God from genuine hearts will be unattractive to evil spirits and by the same
token music which glorifies wickedness and evil will be attractive to spirits
of the kingdom of darkness. In the next
article I will talk about how this relates to Black American music.
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