Vibration, the Open Grave, the Open Heart

2 Kings 3:15 (Young's Literal Translation):
"and now, bring to me a minstrel; and it hath been, at the playing of the minstrel, that the hand of Jehovah is on him,"

At the playing of the minstrel, the hand of Jehovah is on him. Elisha understood something about music, about the nature of God, the nature of music, and the key to opening his own spirit to what God would say to him.
Babatunde told us that, "Rhythm is the soul of the universe."

I have been talking with a couple people about Moses' encounter with the Great God in Exodus 3. In verse 14, the Proclaimation, God says in most english versions, "I AM THAT WHICH I AM." He is existence in most true form; life in fullness; the essence of all existence. But one friend in bible college says that a better translation is, "I WILL BE WHOM I WILL BE." And in Exodus 33 and 34, where Moses asks to see God, The Lord says that Moses can only see His back, but not His face, because then he would die. My friend said, "Doesn't it sound weird that God would put His hands over Moses' eyes while His face passed by, and then Moses would see God's bock?" He went on, "What that means is that God, being the essence of existence, is always moving. And if Moses were to see where God really was at any time, he would die. What God tells him is that He will allow him to see where He just passed by, where He just was - His trail, essentially."

God told Moses that He would pass by him; God is always moving, and we can catch the trail of Him, the hem of His garment, for "No one may see My face and live" (33:20).

Think about what we hear in music: we hear what was just played. Music cannot be stopped and examined circumspectly, it cannot be caught and held; it must be moving in order to be music, in order to be sound. We cannot hear what it as much as we hear the back side of it - what was.

Music is the key to unlocking the god-ness in us. Jesus Himself said, "Ye are gods," and He was quoting David. Psalm 8 brings this into a clearer focus. God Himself made us in His image, and is restoring us back to a state that is greater than our original form, because Christ is our progenor, not Adam any longer!

Elisha understood what it was about music in order to have God touch him. "At the playing of the minstrel...the hand of Jehovah is on him." Music is an expression of God's nature.

They say in string theory that the smallest article of substance is vibration; and what is vibration but movement? And what is movement but rhythm?

We are all interred with and expression of the nature of God, physically. God is all and is in all; the universe, His creation, rings true with who He is - it is alive and vibrant!

What was it that shook death out of our lives forever by rolling away the gravestone at Christ's tomb? A great reverberation in the earth, we call it an earthquake. Rhythm is the genesis and continuation of life. It opens the grave of our hearts to receive His spirit and His life.

But remember this...the earthquake, the vibration, is not God Himself; for the earthquake passed in front of Elijah - but God was not the earthquake, nor was He in it. Those three things that passed in front of Elisha were signs and signifiers that God regularly used to represent Himself - but they were not Himself...they did not encapsulate Him.

God is not a song, per se...He's so much more than that. But a song is like God.

There is old magic in song that has not been rediscovered yet. Purported by one school of archaeology, Stonehenge was constructed by vibration, by song, as were many of the great wonders of the world. Where has this knowledge gone? It has been hidden for ages, and I believe it is time for it to reemerge - not in a gnostic sort of way...but in a real sense of understanding.

God chose the Psalms to be cannonized, but He did not leave us music. Why? Because the expression of Him through music could not be contained by one culture - not even by His chosen people - and every tribe, nation, tongue - song - will bow at His feet. Amen.