Are you familiar with The Song of Moses?
In Deuteronomy 32:1-43, we can read The Song of Moses. It is one of three songs in the bible which are attributed to Moses.
This is a song that the scriptures record which Moses composed and spoke out to the Israelites right before his death.
WORDS ARE EASY TO REMEMBER IN SONGS
Most believe God and Moses had the idea to put the words down into song form so that the people would be less likely to forget them.
It is a well known fact that we remember song lyrics much easier than the written or spoken words without music.
A SONG LIKE A POEM
This “song” written by Moses and directed by God is very remarkable in nature.
It is poetic and of the highest literary quality.
One of the ancient communities (Qumran) held this poem/song in such high esteem that they had scribes to write it down in a separate scroll all to itself.
As far as historians know, the song was the first Hebrew song ever written colograpically, or in the layout of a poem.
A HISTORY OF ISRAEL
The song is a historical account of the relationship between Yahweh and Jacob (Israel.)
Lyrics tell the story of how God cared for Jacob in the desert. The song speaks of how Jacob came into a land of abundance. The words go on to tell us how he later fell into apostacy.
We hear how at first God wanted to punish Jacob.
Then God changes his mind.
The story goes on to tell us how God protected Jacob as He punished all of his enemies.
Later; we learn how He brought restoration to the people of Israel.
METAPHORS AND HIDDEN MEANINGS
There are many metaphors and hidden meanings lurking in every line and the song is one that can transcend into the future meaning of each following generation.
It is full of both hope and condemnation; depending upon the decisions of God’s people when it comes to obedience or disobedience.
A MEMORIAL OF THE LIFE OF MOSES
These were the last words of Moses, and they gave his life a fitting end.
From this point of history on; whenever the people heard the song they would be reminded of the life of Moses and the events that connected his character to God.
MESSAGES TO THE PEOPLE IN MUSIC
This song is the summary of all the many things that Moses relayed to the people from God in The Book of Deuteronomy. There are a million and one interpretations of the meanings.
I simply wish is to relay these ancient words to those who are following this study.
Read the words.
Ask God to speak to you of the song’s meaning. Ponder it and perhaps you too will choose to be an obedient follower of The God of Moses.
Why not be part of the people who sing another great song?
When and if you decide to take this less traveled path to walk with Jesus, you can sing The Song of The Lamb. It is the song of the one of which Moses was a shadow. He is the way , the truth and the light. He is the Son of the Great God of The Song of Moses. Those who follow Him will live forever.
THE SONG OF MOSES
(Deuteronomy 32:1-43)
Listen, you heavens, and I will speak;
hear, you earth, the words of my mouth.
Let my teaching fall like rain
and my words descend like dew,
like showers on new grass,
like abundant rain on tender plants.
I will proclaim the name of the Lord.
Oh, praise the greatness of our God!
He is the Rock, his works are perfect,
and all his ways are just.
A faithful God who does no wrong,
upright and just is he.
They are corrupt and not his children;
to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.
Is this the way you repay the Lord,
you foolish and unwise people?
Is he not your Father, your Creator,
who made you and formed you?
Remember the days of old;
consider the generations long past.
Ask your father and he will tell you,
your elders, and they will explain to you.
when the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,
when he divided all mankind,
he set up boundaries for the peoples
according to the number of the sons of Israel.
For the Lord’s portion is his people,
Jacob his allotted inheritance.
In a desert land he found him,
in a barren and howling waste.
He shielded him and cared for him;
he guarded him as the apple of his eye,
like an eagle that stirs up its nest
and hovers over its young,
that spreads its wings to catch them
and carries them aloft.
The Lord alone led him;
no foreign god was with him.
He made him ride on the heights of the land
and fed him with the fruit of the fields.
He nourished him with honey from the rock,
and with oil from the flinty crag,
with curds and milk from herd and flock
and with fattened lambs and goats
with choice rams of Bashan
and the finest kernels of wheat.
You drank the foaming blood of the grape.
Jeshurun grew fat and kicked;
filled with food, they became heavy and sleek.
They abandoned the God who made them
and rejected the Rock their Savior.
They made him jealous with their foreign gods
and angered him with their detestable idols.
They sacrificed to false gods, which are not God –
gods they had not known,
gods that recently appeared,
gods your ancestors did not fear.
You deserted the Rock, who fathered you;
you forgot the God who gave you birth.
The Lord saw this and rejected them
because he was angered by his sons and daughters.
“I will hide my face from them,” he said.
and see what their end will be;
for they are a perverse generation,
children who are unfaithful.
They made me jealous by what is no god
and angered me with their worthless idols.“
“I will heap calamities on them
and spend my arrows against them.
I will send wasting famine against them,
consuming pestilence and deadly plague;
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,
the venom of vipers that glide in the dust
In the street the sword will make them childless;
in their homes terror will reign.
The young men and young women will perish,
the infants and those with gray hair.
I said I would scatter them
and erase their name from human memory,
but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
lest the adversary misunderstand
and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed;
the Lord has not done all this.'”
They are a nation without sense,
there is no discernment in them.
Have I not kept this in reserve
and sealed it in my vaults?
It is mine to avenge; I will repay.
In due time their foot will slip;
their day of disaster is near
and their doom rushes upon them.”
The Lord will vindicate his people
and relent concerning his servants
when he sees their strength is gone
and no one is left, slave or free.
“See now that I myself am he!
There is no god besides me.
I put to death and I bring to life,
I have wounded and I will heal,
and no one can deliver out of my hand.
I lift my hand to heaven and solemnly swear;
As surely as I live forever,
when I sharpen my flashing sword
and my hand grasps it in judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
and repay those who hate me.
I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
while my sword devours flesh:
the blood of the slain and the captives,
the heads of the enemy leaders.”
Rejoice, you nations, with his people,
for he will avenge the blood of his servants;
he will take vengeance on his enemies
and make atonement for his land and people.
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