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Kadosh – Piano, Harp, Voices, Drums

Kadosh: Captured live in the Congregation haMaayan, in Kfar Saba, Israel, Pastor Tony Sperandeo. August 3, 2019:

Music Director: Teddy Chadwick
Drums (no microphones): Vladimir Kaplan
Vocal: Hannah Schwartz
Harp & Piano & Vocal: Teddy Chadwick
Sound Mix & Computers: Daniel Fischer & Rachely Rachewsky Scapa

This particular Shabbat was one of those times where no matter how early we started to set up, soundcheck, and rehearse (9:30 am), everyone worked very hard to get all the technicalities together smoothly. Nevertheless, we were forced to take a leap of faith. By 10:50, we all needed a short break before starting the meeting at 11:00, and yet, we had not had time to rehearse all the songs. The lyrics were ok in the projection system, and this song Kadosh was one of the songs that we simply reviewed verbally for 3 seconds, along with about 3 other songs.

When this happens, we plan on flowing with the Ruach haKodesh and come what may, whatever mistakes occur, we are committed to keeping the music going while keeping our focus on Him and not ourselves. In advance, we lay aside any embarrassment and blame, and we commit everything unto the glory of Messiah, Yeshua of Nazareth.

When we came to it, the Spirit really moved, so much so that several people from the congregation have been pestering me for awhile afterwards asking for a recording. Evidently, the errors and mishaps did not interfere with the anointing, because lives were touched and changed in a special way.

Lyric translation:
There’s only one word to say
One word to describe

Kadosh, Kadosh
Adonai Our God, Almighty

There is no one like You
You are Kadosh
Kadosh are You

Respect YHWH: This Leads to Blessing

We see here in Tehillim 130 that when the Father grants forgiveness, it leads to reverence and respect. What better way for one to respond, who has been forgiven!

Next we see in Tehillim 128 that fearing YHWH leads to great blessing. This is a very common theme in the Psalms. See Tehillim 1, 19, and 119. See the pattern of those numbers there?

YHWH is great!

PS: Yes I did notice the page number of my Bible for Psalm 130. Ha! YHWH owns all the numeros.

 

Prophesy with Harps

We see two main points from the first verse of 1 Chronicles 25:

First, Prophecy is much much more than a bearded guy with flaming eyes and brown sackloth flapping in the thunderstorm, with the ruins of the cities going up in flames in the background.

Prophecy also happens during worship, praise and adoration, even with musical instruments such as harps, drums, and cymbals. After all, Prophecy reveals the heart of Elohim. And His heart expresses the full range of emotions, not only anger. When He expresses what’s on His mind through the prophets, through the musicians, the preachers, and so forth, His Word brings love and life to His people.

The second thing we see in this verse is that music and prophecy comprise work. Those who prophesy with harps etc are called workmen.

Yeshua teaches that “the workman is worthy of his meat” (Matt 10:10). As a Worship Warrior King, David understood this principle, and used the resources of his kingdom to finance the room and board for the worshipers.

The writer is a Psalmist serving among the Messianic communities in Israel.  He is also a builder and distributor of 10-string harps. His studio production “Yerubilee” indie records have sold over 2,300 copies worldwide without touring.

The Worship Warrior King

King David, the worship warrior king, the former shepherd boy who overcame Goliath the giant by faith, such a faith that was developed while he played his harp and fought the lion and the bear. This worship warrior king collected taxes from his people and set aside a budget to finance a 24/7 project for musicians to be employed 100% in the work of Worship.

It’s worth mentioning first that David himself made the musical instruments; We can be sure that he hired artisans to build instruments, and we can also be sure that with all of David’s experience in playing instruments of worship, that he must have had design specifications which were quite detailed.

The next detail to mention is the number of Levite priests.  So let’s break out these fulltime Tabernacle workers by the numbers:

24,000 men to do the work of the house of YHWH;

6,000 men serving as officers and judges;

4,000 men working as musicians to praise YHWH;

4,000 men operating as porters, “doorkeepers,” as Psalm 84:10 writes,

“For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.”

38,000:  TOTAL number of men who were Levites.

Out of a total of 1.6 million men of age in Israel and Judah (II Sam 24:9, I Chron. 21:5-6), this is 2.375% of the male population over 20 years of age, including men trained in warfare as well as those completely inexperienced.

Ok, now in one sense, 2.4% is far from zero.  On the other hand, 2.4% seems like quite an insignificant portion of the mature male population.

But when we consider that the 4,000 musicians comprise only 0.25% of the male population, things get serious:  That’s only a quarter of one percent.

It just goes to show: It only takes a “small” amount of praise and worship to get big results.  When we praise Elohim the Creator, His power moves mountains.

These days, there is no theocratic nation with a king who collects taxes to finance 0.25% to work as worship musicians, never mind 2.4% of the population to serve as priests.  Today, the finances come from freewill offerings from the people of Elohim.  The more worshipers and workers the better.  Let’s seek to build the King’s Kingdom together, by financing priests and worship musicians to bless and serve Elohim from the local areas in Israel.

The writer is a Psalmist serving among the Messianic communities in Israel.  He is a member of a board which oversees Biblical Choral music in the Land.  He is also a builder and distributor of 10-string harps.

JTOD Testimonials

Jerusalem Tabernacle of David works for the Kingdom together with programs and people in Israel.  Listen to what some of them have to say about Teddy and his work:

1 of 7: David Loden of KAMTI and Liturgi-Kal Concert Choir.

2 of 7: Avi Mizrachi of Dugit Ministries and Congregation Adonai Roi.

3 of 7: Tony Sperandeo of Congregation HaMaayan.

4 of 7: Nate Silverman of Dugit Ministries and Congregation Adonai Roi.

5 of 7: Member of the Local Body in Samaria.

 

6 of 7: Brother Andre of the Body of Messiah in Finland.

 

Interview 8: Ariel and Hannah, Worship Team Members:

 

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License to Pedal in Israel

Late in 2018, the Israeli Knesset voted to pass a bill into law stating that all users of electric bikes and scooters would need to have a license, starting Jan 1, 2019.

Israel already suspended my license to drive – so the question is, would the State approve my license to pedal a bike? Well, it remains to be seen. Meanwhile, the Government has issued an enforcement delay of six months, placing the deadline at July 1, 2019.

So for the time being, I will continue pedaling JTOD’s electric horse to and from worship events.

Priests Then and Now

In King David’s time, Israel was a theocratic monarchy, and the tithes and offerings from the people were enforced by the rule of law.   Today, the Kingdom is spiritualized and yet physical; King Yeshua has ascended and is seated in heaven, and the people contribute by their freedom of choice to those aspects of the Kingdom as they will.   Secondly, priests in King David’s day were Levites, but today the High Priest is Yeshua and he is not of the order of Levites, but of the priestly order of Melchi-Tzedek (See Hebrews 5).   Thus the priestly Order Of Melchi-Tzedek exists both before (Genesis 14:18) and after the Levitical order, which was temporary, as it turns out.

In his day, David haMelech oversaw the collection of taxes (tithes and offerings), and with those, he commissioned and paid for 288 priestly worshipers (1 Chronicles 25:7) to be available to minister full-time in YHWH’s presence day and night:

“And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in that work day and night.” (1 Chronicles 9:33).

All this of course was in the tent, because we know that it was Solomon and not David who finally built the golden Temple after David’s death.

So the question is, long after the Second Temple fell, why would the Prophet Amos foretell (Amos 9:11) that in the future the Tabernacle of David would be restored? Wasn’t the Tabernacle of David simply a practice-run for the Temple? After the glory of the Temple with all its shiny gold (both times), why go backwards to that flapping tent again?

Whether or not we can know the reason why, we certainly can know that it will happen.  In fact, it has already been happening for a long time.  Part of this must be the establishment of worship around the world as well as in the modern state of Israel.

We hope and pray that you can find your way to partner with this great move of Elohim.