Sing a Song part 17

So there are two reasons: 1) There is no clear cut use in the New Testament of instruments during the early church and 2) it may indicate mourning for a time until we are all together in heaven. There is of course the third and most obvious, and that is the performance using an instrument. God doesn't want my performance. He wants my person. God doesn't need my performance to promote His Word. If the bible itself, if the presence of Christ and His apostles aren't good enough to enter into the spiritual temple courts, then what will I add by using instruments? Nothing I can do will add to what is already God's, in fact I am warned not to do that in Revelations (Rev 22:18). In fact, the use of instrumentation seems to come back in Revelations 5:8,9 and in Revelations 18:22. In Revelations 18:22, it say, "Babylon will have no more joy, no music". And who is Babylon? Babylon is me. It is you. It is anyone and any country that denies God, either intentionally or unintentionally. While people may mean well, and they have the choice, they must understand that God had a purpose in everything and that they must be strong in the faith, not strong in their own gods. God understands that things made of our own hands leads us to pride and worshipping those things which will nto and cannot bring us closer to God. Only by realizing that God did not choose for us what we can do or our power or stature or beauty but because of ourselves can we possibly realize what it is to be God's children. Then and only then can we sing, "Just as I am".