Inherent in the makeup and the warp and woof of Lucifer was his ability to make music. He was the original composer of music. Pipes and tabrets, or percussion instruments, were literally built inside of him.

He was literally the heavenly choir director created in beauty, wisdom and perfection in order that he use his creative genius to devise ways of leading all of creation in worshipping God.

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In the beginning, as God created the universe—laying it out and designing it in all its incredible intricacies—the angels would witness his “interior decorating” and, as Job 38:7 reports, “The morning stars (the classification of angels Lucifer was in; the top echelon) sang together, and all the sons of God (or all the angels) shouted for joy.”

Jordan explains, “They’re watching God create this tent to dwell in, as Isaiah 41 says, and as they see Him put things out in it, it’s, ‘WOW! I got it! I see it!’ And Lucifer was the one who was leading them, and literally when the morning stars sang together, you know who wrote the song? You know who provided the music? Lucifer’s job was to lead creation and he did.

“When it says they sang together, they responded to seeing God’s wisdom put on display and Lucifer lead all the heavenly host in the praise of everything God was doing.”

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From Ezekiel 28, though, we know that Lucifer was ‘lifted up in pride’ as he watched what God was doing and, as Isaiah 14 says, he decided he ought to be the one getting the glory in it all. So he took the music and twisted it from being about God to being about him.

“Satan used his wisdom, not for God’s glory, but for his own, and the original attitude of self-worship and of independence from God—worshipping and serving the creature rather than the Creator—began right there and was introduced into the creation by Lucifer, who became Satan,” says Jordan. “And when he fell, folks, he took his music with him.”

Of this event, Ezekiel 28:16 explains, “By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.”

Jordan says, “You know what he did—he went out and started merchandising his ideas. He ran the world’s first advertising campaign. Oh, yeah! There he is. And you know in your life how important music is to that. It was a natural means of conveying and conveyance.

“What Satan wants is worship of himself and he’s ‘the god of this world,’ folks. That’s why he tells Jesus, ‘I’ll give you all the kingdoms of this world if you fall down and worship me,’ because that’s what he wants. When he fell, he took his musical ability with him into the pit of hell.

“That’s why I say to you, if Satan can’t get to you with your bible (version), or on right division, or sound doctrine, he’ll get you with music.

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Outlined in Genesis 4-6 is a picture of the original development of culture and society, including music, and its inherent sinfulness—what Paul, in Ephesians 2, calls ‘the course of this world.’

Jordan reasons, “When God wants to deal with the problems of life and culture, He doesn’t need 37 volumes written by Will Durant, and whoever else, to give you the course of Western civilization—He just writes it down in one chapter really.

“In Genesis 4 you see the whole development of culture up to the time of Noah. We’re told, ‘And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.’

“Cain was supposed to be a vagabond; he was a farmer, and when he was rejected by God, God said, ‘You’re never to have another piece of ground to live on.’ So Cain goes out and what does he do? He gets him a piece of ground and builds him a town so nobody can move him and he names it after his boy.

“He’s living through his seed; living through himself. He named his boy Enoch. That’s the reason the Book of Jude talks about Enoch as ‘the seventh from Adam’ that prophesied, so you don’t confuse him with (Cain’s) Enoch and you know he’s the one over in Genesis 5.

“The very first city is one God built, and when man went out in rebellion against God, he tried to duplicate and counterfeit God’s city without God, and the doctrine of the city from Genesis 4 all the way to Revelation 21 . . . that’s why New Jerusalem and Jerusalem are an issue. ‘The city of the great king.’

“The spirit of a city is rebellion against God. They predict by 2010, just a few years away, over 53% of the world’s population will live in metropolitan areas. That doesn’t portend a good outcome. ‘Gathered together in rebellion.’

Genesis 4 goes on to report, “And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
[19] And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
[20] And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
[21] And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
[22] And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.”

Jordan says, “Notice it says ‘he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.’ He’s going to develop economic and educational systems to carry on. Who is it that develops husbandry and horticulture and agriculture? And ‘such as have cattle’? Who is it developing that? It’s a descendant of Cain.

“It says, ‘And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.’ Where does the art of music and entertainment come from? From whose descendants? Cain!

‘And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron.’ There’s metallurgy; industrialization; manufacturing. And once you go on down and see what they do, they develop weapons and all of that culture.

“What does the agriculture, and the horticulture, and the Arts, and the industrialization and the mechanization of society, lead to? Verse 23-24 says violence and murder. That’s the fruit of the course of this world. And the result of Genesis 6 is where the whole earth is filled with violence.

“What I want you to see is that the developer in the earth among men, who is ‘the father of all such as handle the harp and organ,’ was a descendant of Cain.

“Just so you remember this about Cain, look at I John 3:12. It says, ‘Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.’

“Cain followed Satan. Now what kind of music do you think he was creating? You think he and his descendants were going to create music and musical instruments that praised God or praised themselves?

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In giving a description of the wicked in the days of Noah, Job 21 says, “They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.”

Jordan explains, “The wicked have got music and they love it and it’s affecting them. They want to feel good. But notice what they don’t want:

“Starting in verse 13, it says, ‘They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
[14] Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
[15] What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
[16] Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.’

“They’re not interested in God. They’re not interested in glorifying God, doing what He wants done. It’s, ‘Why should we serve God? There’s no profit. What profit shall we have?’

“I mean, tell me this morning, why do you serve God? You know a lot of churches today are growing and the reason is the music. It’s not the teaching of sound doctrine. You go in and try to teach them the things that we talk about here and ‘Pflump!’ you’re out the door!

“I talked to a business lady recently and tried to witness to her, and she said, ‘Oh, I sing in the choir every Sunday.’ When I asked her, ‘What does your preacher teach?’ she said, ‘Oh, I don’t get to hear the preacher very often because as soon as the choir’s quit singing I have to leave.’ She’s in real estate. She has to go do open houses after lunch. You understand why she’s there—to sing in the choir!

“There’s a whole lot of people who do that. You have the great music, the drama, and then the little sermonette stuck over at the end just because you’ve got to do something religious. The thinking is, ‘We don’t see any profit in serving God that way.’

“Listen, the closer you get to death, folks, and I’ve observed this for years, the harder you try to prove you’re not dying. And that’s not just the physical things; you’ll see that in spiritual things.

“When the wicked say in Job 21, ‘What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?’ they’re saying exactly what the people in Genesis 21 do but the context is with some people who were overthrown in the days of Noah in the Flood.

“What I’m trying to get you to see is God created music and from the Creation to the Flood, music didn’t go up, it went down.

“And it degenerated from Creation morning until it debauched the world and filled it with violence. They weren’t praising God; they didn’t want to know Him and He wound up wiping them out.”

(Editor’s Note: To be continued . . .)