Adventistische Schriften über: "What did Ellen White say about David dancing before the ark?"

Ellen White emphasizes that David\u2019s dance before the ark cannot be used as a model for modern forms of dancing. She describes it as an expression of pious joy and honor to God, which is clearly distinct from worldly dissipation. In another context, it is reported how David danced with joy over the return of the ark, which was perceived as humiliation by his wife Michal.

David's dance as no model for modern dancing

»David's dancing in reverent joy before God has been cited by pleasure lovers in justification of the fashionable modern dance, but there is no ground for such an argument. ... The music and dancing in joyful praise to God at the removal of the ark had not the faintest resemblance to the dissipation of modern dancing. The one tended to the remembrance of God and exalted His holy name. The other is a device of Satan to cause men to forget God and to dishonor Him.«

1 - Ellen Gould White, The Adventist Home (AH 517.1)

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Description of David's dance and Michal's criticism

»“As the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.” ... David felt that it was the service of God which Michal had despised and dishonored, and he sternly answered: “It was before the Lord, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lord, over Israel: therefore will I play before the Lord. And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honor.”«

2 - Ellen Gould White, Patriarchs and Prophets (PP 708.7)

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