Satan, the former music
director/organist.
I always hear from people how Satan was the chief music
director of Heaven and how he played skillfully for the glory of God before he
was chased away by God. I believed the story. However, I decided to go through
the scriptures to find out exactly what happened, owning that myself, I am a
musicologist, director of music, and organist. I decided to know how he carried
out his duties as the music director of heaven and did pleased God before he
mescaphonded. As I searched through the scriptures I found something that I
could lay hands on as the true story positioning Satan as musician in book of
Ezekiel chapter 28:12-15.
Read with me……….Ezekiel 28:12-15 NKJV
12: 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.
13: 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.
14: 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.
15: Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou
wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
I found this to be a description of Satan. He is said there to have been in the Garden
of Eden and was perfect in all his ways until iniquity was found in him. That
fits none other but the devil. Therefore, the prince of Tyrus mentioned earlier
in the chapter would be the earthly ruler of Tyre, while the king of Tyrus
would be the devil who rules over the prince of Tyrus. I was able to arrive at
this conclusion following my previous study of Daniel chapter 10 which deals
with the connection between many earthly rulers and evil spiritual
principalities.
Therefore, verse 13 of my dialogue chapter (i.e Ezekiel 28)
captures it very well with an interesting phrase.
13: “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.”
That is, he was created with tabrets and pipes built in him.
What would this refer to? Tabrets
(spelled taborets in modern English) are small drums like those used to beat
out timing for a fife player. Pipes probably refer to tubes used to produce
tones by blowing air through them, as in pipe organ. This made me to understand
that the devil had the makings of percussion instruments and wind instruments
built into his very being. Why would God create him with these strange
apparatus? I asked.
I continued to ask why and why was he created with such
gadgets, and then I found the presiding verse explaining why.
14: “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.”
(He is called the
anointed cherub who covers.)
I quickly recalled that in the previous chapter, precisely
In Ezekiel 10:1-22 there are four cherubim who stand at the four corners of the
throne of God. Since "the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub"
(Ezekiel 10:4) the cherubim were there to give glory and praise to the Lord.
This paragraph did justice to my quest for the confirmation of the story that
depicts Satan as former music director and organist of heaven. God made him
with these gadgets to use it to give glory and praise to Him. As one of the cherubs, his job had been to
glorify God musically with those gadgets built in him. (that made him the music
director). If I am correct here, it will be interesting to note that the
most powerful of God's heavenly creatures is the one who most prominently gives
glory and praise to God musically.
In one sense
therefore, I was able to conclude through the course of my studies that Satan
was once the heavenly music director and he led the songs of praise to the Lord.
Now, my other question/apprehension is:
When Satan fell in rebellion against God, did he or did he
not lose the natural abilities that God had given him? The tabrets, and the
pipes?
Looking at the bad influences of music in the world today, I
have no doubt than to conclude that the evil one kept the tabrets and the pipes,
but now uses them to turn God's creatures against their Creator. His expertise
is so powerful welded in today’s secular music, and he has always tried to inflict
the only one God holds dear which is SACRED MUSIC. Satan has made music in the
church one of the most controversial issues for Christians. Issues like; should
we use certain instrument in the church? Is music ecology relevant in church
music? And so many other issues around church music. The reason is so obvious,
the evil one, knowing what he has been enjoying before he was chased out fights
to keep worshipers away from enjoying that benefits from God. He knows what we will benefit if we do it
right, and because he knew what the Lord enjoys, he introduced the opposite (i.e
his music) into the world and tries to see that church musicians are equally
corrupt just like his own musicians because he hates the Lord. This is a dangerous.
Remembering that as an organist, I play organ virtually
every day and all the apparatus mentioned as the part of the makings of a being
that God specially made for the praise and glory of his Name are known
components of a pipe organs or digital organs that we use in the church today.
Was it intentional? Yes! God in his wisdom knew that Satan
would fall and did give man the knowledge of making a better alternative for
that same purpose. This time, no power can corrupt it.
Let me explain: out of all the musical instruments available
in the world today, the pipe organ still remain the king of instrument,
respected, known for church use, known for hymns accompaniment, recital
performance, serious classical pieces, theater or opera works, mighty in size,
sacred in nature, rich in sound, furnished with precious woods, expensive to
purchase, lasting for hundreds of years, meddling in tone, satisfactory,
creative to perform, strength to last, beauty to behold, and all other virtues.
God is so wise that He made only but few religious scholars to cherish the
godly endowments of this piece of art and as such took the eyes of the
worldly/secular musicians off this instrument. Rarely do the world use it in
their secular/worldly activities unlike the way other music instruments like
keyboard, saxophone, trumpet, and son on are been used by these agents.
This write up column will be too small for me to download
everything I know about organ and why God made it as a replacement for Satan
and his formal functionalities. But will continue to write on this subject until
I am satisfied.
Let me stop here by saying that the earlier our churches
begin to understand the cryptology imbibed in the making of Satan, and the
similar connection of it to organ as God’s chosen replacement for His worship,
until then, we are yet to wash off the cobwebs which Satan has used to blind us
in this matter. Thank you. To be
continued……
By Igiri Innocent.
Holy Cross Cathedral Organist.
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