Scripture provides us with many passages about the occult, its practitioners, and their unacceptable activities. In that revelation, God has inspired for our profit a key statement about occultic speaking:
Isa. 29:4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
God has revealed here that certain occultists who have demons speak in some manner “out of the ground.”
By His revealing this about such occultic speaking when He revealed that the speaking of Jerusalem when He would judge her (cf. Isa. 29:1-3) would be speaking that is “low out of the dust,” speaking that is as the voice of an occultist whose voice is “out of the ground,” and speaking that is a whispered speaking, we understand through comparing the nature of these similar statements that such whispered speaking is also occultic speaking (cf. Isa. 8:19).
This passage shows us, therefore, that it is not just the content of what people speak that matters to God—how that content is spoken is also vitally important. Because God has told us about such occultic whispered speaking, we must be mindful of the ramifications such speaking has for how we speak what we speak.
Application to Our Worship Music
When we sing in worship of God, we must not sing with whispered speaking that is similar to any occultic speaking. Because God has not specified for us exactly what such occultic whispered speaking sounds like, we must reject all whispered singing in corporate worship so that we do not in any way sing in the worship of God with speech that is like occultic whispered speaking.
Furthermore, in addition to its being unacceptable because it is like occultic whispered speaking, whispered singing is unacceptable singing also because it fails to edify all its hearers because it is speech in a corporate worship setting that is not easy to understand by all its hearers:
1 Corinthians 14:9 So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
Whispering, of course, is legitimate speaking in various other settings, but it is not so in singing in corporate worship where we must edify all the brethren and do all things unto edification (cf. 1 Cor. 14:4, 26).
For more information about what Scripture reveals about acceptable versus unacceptable worship music, see the following post that categorizes many other articles that I have written about the Bible, music, and related issues: Resources That Provide Answers to Key Issues Concerning CCM.
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