Does Scripture Teach That God Created All Music?

The more we use passages that directly show a point, the better and stronger the case we make.

Neither Is. 14 nor Ezek. 28 directly speaks about Satan's being worshiped or seeking to be worshiped. Passages such as Luke 4 and Rev. 9 (and other passages), however, either directly show this point or more directly imply it:

Luke 4:5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. 7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.

Revelation 9:20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

Using these passages with Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 makes the case for Satan's seeking worship and being worshiped much better and stronger than using just Is. 14 and Ez. 28 does.

Making a more direct case that Satan has his own music for his worship, however, is much harder to do. It is not my intent in this thread to get wrapped up in trying to go into detail on that point because I think that it is enough to use the passages already treated to infer this more specific point.

 

I do not think that is a reference to God. Many other Psalms have the same designation, which likely refers to the choir director. For instance,

Psalm 6:1 <To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.> O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

Psalm 39:1 <To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.> I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

Psalm 45:1 <To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves.> My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Compare also,

Habakkuk 3:19 The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

The word for "singer" here is the same Heb. word rendered "musician" at the beginning of many Psalms.

 

I have already shown you the thrust of what I meant about making a better case by providing specific statements that directly back up the inferences that you were drawing from Is. 14 and Ezek. 28. When the more explicit passages about the devil directly wanting/receiving actual worship are linked with these passages, making the inference that he would have his own music for his worship has stronger Scriptural support.

Perhaps, if you were to go back and reread our exchanges, you might see that all along I was only seeing if you had any more direct passages in Scripture to back up your point. I was not denying what you were saying; I was interested to see if you had anything further and more direct to support your point.

 

If you compare Psalm 18 to 2 Sam. 22, you will see that the passages are almost identical, but with some differences.

Matthew Henry explains the connection this way,

"This psalm we met with before, in the history of David's life, 2 Sam. xxii. That was the first edition of it; here we have it revived, altered a little, and fitted for the service of the church. It is David's thanksgiving for the many deliverances God had wrought for him; these he desired always to preserve fresh in his own memory and to diffuse and entail the knowledge of them. . . . The title gives us the occasion of penning this psalm; we had it before (2 Sam. xxii. 1), only here we are told that the psalm was delivered to the chief musician, or precentor, in the temple-songs."

The probable explanation is that what David spoke to the Lord on a previous occasion was later incorporated into the collection of Psalms by whoever compiled them into the various books of the Psalms.

 

Ok, let's agree to disagree and leave it there. Thanks.

 

No, "workmanship" is the subject of the passive verb, "was prepared," which points to someone else (God) as the One who prepared that workmanship in that anointed cherub (cf. v. 14) in the day that he was created (another passive verb that points to God as the One who Created him).

 

If you carefully trace the flow of thought from Isaiah 14:4 to 14:11, you can see that 14:11 is not referring to Lucifer, but to the king of Babylon (14:4 ff.) The music spoken of in 14:11 is not Lucifer's music; it is the music of the king of Babylon.

The passage begins to speak of Lucifer in 14:12.

 

I appreciate your interest in continuing to study and discuss the subject! Both Ezekiel 28 and Isaiah 14 pose difficult interpretational challenges so we have to keep studying and asking God for illumination.

Based on other passages that do not have such interpretational problems, some of which you have already noted, we know that angels are musical beings who both sing and play musical instruments.

Because the devil is a fallen angel, we know therefore that he is a musical being, regardless of how we take what is said in Ezekiel 28 or Isaiah 14.

 

Can you support these statements from Scripture?

 

I have not studied what the Scripture may have to say about the answers to these questions so I cannot answer them knowledgeably. I know that some people have said some things about such differences.

 

The Bible is very clear that humans do things in the realm of the former that God never intended for them to do. In the same way, using your line of argumentation would lead to holding the position that God did not create all music because humans have combined musical elements in ways that God never intended for them to do.