The Song of Moses

What a powerful revelation the Spirit gave to me in our Torah study today! Several months ago the Lord gave me music for the "Song of Moses" as it is written in Revelation 15. At that time He told me our group should begin singing this "as a rehearsal" for the time to come when we would sing it together with the re-gathered children of Israel. And so in obedience (without full understanding) we've been singing this song:

"Great and marvelous are your deeds, Adonai Elohim

Just and true are your ways, King of the Ages

Who will not fear You, O Lord, and bring glory to Your Name?

For You alone are holy.

All nations will come and worship before You

for Your righteous acts have been revealed."

Today our study led us back to Deuteronomy 31:19-21. In this passage Yahweh instructs Moses: "Write down for yourselves this song and teach it to the Israelites and have them sing it, so that it may be a witness for Me against them. When I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, the land I promised on oath to their forefathers, and when they eat their fill and thrive, they will turn to other gods and worship them, rejecting Me and breaking My covenant. And when many disasters and difficulties come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten by their descendants." So Moses wrote down the song that day and taught it to the Israelites.

How does this song become a witness against those who reject God and break His covenant? Because this is a prophetic song and it represents the people of the end times - in the Second Exodus - singing again the Song of Moses. They sing it immediately prior to the seven angels who have the seven plagues, pouring out God's wrath upon the earth. Those who keep Yahweh's commandments and walk in His ways can sing this song; but those who have forgotten the words of Moses and reject God and His commandments, cannot sing this song. It is a witness against them that they have not kept God's ways.

According to Revelation 15:2, John the Revelator says, "And I saw what looked like a sea of glass mixed with fire and standing beside the sea those who had been victorious over the beast and his image and over the number of his name. They held harps given them by God and sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb." History repeats itself again! The redeemed children of Israel stand "by the sea" singing the victory song of Moses, having overcome the beast and his army - just as the first redeemed children of Israel sang this song by the sea, having overcome Pharaoh and his army!

My heart rejoices in this picture of the full circle of Yahweh's glorious redemptive plan in Messiah - but my heart also weeps that for some, this song will be a witness against them.