Just as Adam and Eve wore no garments before they “fell,” but were clothed in light, Lucifer was covered with “every precious stone”—sardius, topaz, diamond, beryl, onyx, jasper, sapphire, emerald, carbuncle and gold.

“This guy was the original jewel collector,” says Jordan. “Those stones had to do with that issue of light and prisms and multi-colored facets; he was a light-bearer.

“The uniform of the godhead was a garment of light, but it was not a white glowing light; we know from Ezekiel 1that the appearance of the glory of God is like a rainbow. That’s refracted light bent with all the colors. When you understand that, you understand why Jacob gave the coat of many colors to Joseph.”

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When God called the nation Israel out of Egypt, Moses and the children of Israel sang a song unto the LORD “and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.” (Exodus 15:1)

“The whole theme of the music was what God was doing and what He was doing for Himself and how He’s was using them to accomplish His glory,” says Jordan. “It wasn’t about them. It wasn’t about what’s He doing for me and what am I getting out of it. It’s, ‘Look at what HE’s doing! And how HE’s working in us to accomplish HIS glory!’

“You’ll notice, too, you don’t see a tune in there anywhere. Now, music’s about the tune. There’s three parts to the grammar of music—the melody, the harmony and the rhythm—

but you can’t find any of that in this passage, can you?

“What do you find here? You find the words because words are important. But, listen, the music that carries the words is designed to impact your spirit, your soul and your body.

“The language of music is designed to take the words you’re singing and put them in control of your spirit, your soul and your body. And, friends, your emotions make you vulnerable because they get you focused on the feeling side rather than the thinking side, and the doctrine side.

“Look at verses 20 and 21: ‘And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.’

“They’re singing, ‘He’s given us victory over Satan!’ And, actually, that whole passage carries you all the way to the Second Coming of Christ and the kingdom if you look back at verses 17 and 18: ‘Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established. The LORD shall reign for ever and ever.’

“People will look at (Miriam’s reaction) and say, ‘Well, looky there, Brother Rick, you just said the emotions affect you.’ Let me ask you, the last dance you went to, was that what they were singing at the dance?

“I was at a place just the other night where the people were gyrating on the dance floor, but they weren’t gyrating around like that, and there wasn’t anybody out there singing God’s praises and saying, ‘Glory to God; He’s caused us to triumph gloriously!’

“By the way, one day God will restore dance back to its original purpose, which was what? Physical expression of the joy brought on by singing praises to God. It’s not mindless boogeying down a church aisle, and shaking whatever you have around so you can go home feeling like you’ve been to an exercise class.”

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In Exodus 32, when Moses is up on the mountaintop 40 days and the nation Israel’s down at the bottom thinking he’s not coming back, music accompanied their debauchery in building the golden calf, etc.

Jordan explains, “Moses comes back down, and in verse 17, when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, ‘There’s the noise of war in the camp. They’re fighting. Listen to that racket.’ But Moses says, ‘No, no, no.’ You see Moses was raised in Egypt. He knew the culture that he and Israel just came out of.

“Moses said, ‘That’s not war you’re hearing, but it’s the noise of them that sing do I hear.’ Now imagine music and singing sounding like a battle of war.

“Israel had that quickly degenerated music into the noise of the Egyptian culture. In verse 25, it says, ‘And when Moses saw that the people were naked.’ Don’t you kid yourself for two seconds, that’s what the music of the world is about.

“When he says they were naked, that wasn’t a good thing. That music they were singing to was nothing but sex music. And the activities, and the gyrations, were associated with people getting their clothes off and there’s not really but one reason you take your clothes off, folks, in mixed company.

“Think about in Matthew 14 when John the Baptist loses his head. You know how come he lost his head? The guy who took it off was being entertained by a belly dancer. You see, there’s a lot of strange things in the Bible that when you take them home with you, it’s what the Bible’s talking about.”