Pay attention to the Song of Moses
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Introduction
Introduction
The Lord has revealed to Moses he will die and that Israel will betray Him
And the Lord said to Moses: “Behold, you will rest with your fathers; and this people will rise and play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.
Then My anger shall be aroused against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them, and they shall be devoured. And many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?’
And I will surely hide My face in that day because of all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods.
“Now therefore, write down this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for Me against the children of Israel.
The Song of Moses contains the Song of the Lamb from Revelation 15:3-4
Our study is based on the word Ha’azinu, which means:
263 I. אָזַן (ʾā·zǎn): v.; ≡ Str 238; TWOT 57—1. LN 24.52–24.70 (hif) hear, perceive, respond, i.e., to have the normal faculty of hearing, with a focus that understanding is the result (Ps 135:17); 2. LN 32.1–32.10 (hif) listen, pay attention, give ear, i.e., understand what is said by another, with an implication that proper response will occur (Ge 4:23; Ps 5:2[EB 1])
Swanson, J. (1997). Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains : Hebrew (Old Testament)
In our study today, I hope to
Break down the Song of Moses in 6 parts
Point out the hidden prophetic messages in most of the parts
Link information to other prophets
Bible Study Scripture
Bible Study Scripture
Our Bible study is based on Deuteronomy 32:1-52
Presentation
Presentation
The Song of Moses
Introduction: Witnesses and Prophecy of the Rock- Verses 1-6
God’s Kindness - Verses 7-14
Prophecy - Israel’s sin - Verses 15-18
Future Punishment - Verses 19-25
Justice and Mercy - Verses 26-35
Comfort for Israel - Verses 36-41
1- INTRODUCTION
“Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
Listen - pay attention to the song
Heaven and Earth- witness
Let my teaching drop as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, As raindrops on the tender herb, And as showers on the grass.
“My” non-existent in text
Teaching = instruction
To take:
S 3947; BDB 542b; HALOT 2:534a; TDOT 8:16–21; TWOT 1124; NIDOTTE 4374
1. lqḥ “to take” is common Sem., although it is widely replaced by other verbs in the later languages (Arab. laqiḥa “to conceive [sexually],” as well as ʾhúḏ “to take”; Syr. nsb, šql; cf. KBL 1101b on Bibl. Aram. nśʾ).
Jenni, E., & Westermann, C. (1997). Theological lexicon of the Old Testament (p. 648). Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers.
Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.
It also means TAKE my instruction
Rain- healing from above
Dew - nutrition up from earth
As for man, his days are like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
For I proclaim the name of the Lord: Ascribe greatness to our God.
With his song, Moses lifts the name of the Lord on high among the people of Israel
Oh, give thanks to the Lord! Call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples!
I will extol You, my God, O King; And I will bless Your name forever and ever.
Every day I will bless You, And I will praise Your name forever and ever.
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; And His greatness is unsearchable.
One generation shall praise Your works to another, And shall declare Your mighty acts.
I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty, And on Your wondrous works.
He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He.
Then they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their Redeemer.
The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me: ‘He who rules over men must be just, Ruling in the fear of God.
In the original Hebrew language you can see the connection between the Father being the Rock and His Son
First He is PERFECT
As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the Lord is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him.
The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion A chief cornerstone, elect, precious, And he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame.”
The Lord lives! Blessed be my Rock! Let the God of my salvation be exalted.
As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the Lord is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him.
The Rock is the word of the Lord
having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone,
He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He.
Righteous
“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; A King shall reign and prosper, And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.
‘In those days and at that time I will cause to grow up to David A Branch of righteousness; He shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.
In those days Judah will be saved, And Jerusalem will dwell safely. And this is the name by which she will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS’
In the END TIMES- as per the dream of Nebuchadnezzar
Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold—the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure.”
“They have corrupted themselves; They are not His children, Because of their blemish: A perverse and crooked generation.
Blemish - sin
Perverse- evil
Crooked - distorted
2- THE KINDNESS OF GOD
Do you thus deal with the Lord, O foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, who bought you? Has He not made you and established you?
The Father and The Son - The Father is The Son
For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
The Son will be born - Whose name is Mighty God - Everlasting Father
“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, From everlasting.”
Therefore He shall give them up, Until the time that she who is in labor has given birth; Then the remnant of His brethren Shall return to the children of Israel.
Coming “from old, From everlasting”
His brethren are the remnant
Both Father and Son
“Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; Your elders, and they will tell you:
When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations, When He separated the sons of Adam, He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
Separation of nations:
So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.
Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
And set boundaries by destroying the sons of Adam:
So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
And He set the boundaries according to the children of ISRAEL
For the Lord’s portion is His people; Jacob is the place of His inheritance.
“He found him in a desert land And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.
Israel is His portion
His people
His tabernacle
Rescues him (Jacob)- sets him apart- teaches him
Israel kept as the apple of His eye
Wasteland and howling wilderness - same language as in Genesis 1:2
The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
As an eagle stirs up its nest, Hovers over its young, Spreading out its wings, taking them up, Carrying them on its wings,
So the Lord alone led him, And there was no foreign god with him.
Protection under His wings
The Lord repay your work, and a full reward be given you by the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge.”
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!
See! Your house is left to you desolate; and assuredly, I say to you, you shall not see Me until the time comes when you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”
“To whom then will you liken Me, Or to whom shall I be equal?” says the Holy One.
Lift up your eyes on high, And see who has created these things, Who brings out their host by number; He calls them all by name, By the greatness of His might And the strength of His power; Not one is missing.
Why do you say, O Jacob, And speak, O Israel: “My way is hidden from the Lord, And my just claim is passed over by my God”?
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength.
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall,
But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.
But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.
The church being protected in the end times.
The Song of the Lamb - He is the Deliverer
And celebrated
They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: “Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the saints!
Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. For all nations shall come and worship before You, For Your judgments have been manifested.”
“He made him ride in the heights of the earth, That he might eat the produce of the fields; He made him draw honey from the rock, And oil from the flinty rock;
Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs; And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the choicest wheat; And you drank wine, the blood of the grapes.
3- PROPHECY - ISRAEL’S SIN
“But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; You grew fat, you grew thick, You are obese! Then he forsook God who made him, And scornfully esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Jeshurun - is a prophetic / poetic name for Israel
It means “upright one”
Israel grew fat = lazy
Israel betrayed God
They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods; With abominations they provoked Him to anger.
They sacrificed to demons, not to God, To gods they did not know, To new gods, new arrivals That your fathers did not fear.
Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful, And have forgotten the God who fathered you.
Gentiles provoked God to jelousy
Ephraim is scattered as Gentile
Ephraim worshipped other gods
Worshipped demons
Created new gods
Forgot the root from where he came
4- FUTURE PUNISHMENT
“And when the Lord saw it, He spurned them, Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.
Because of this the Lord trampled Israel
For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?
His daughters refers to both Judah and Israel who instigated their sons to idolatry
“They say, ‘If a man divorces his wife, And she goes from him And becomes another man’s, May he return to her again?’ Would not that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; Yet return to Me,” says the Lord.
“Lift up your eyes to the desolate heights and see: Where have you not lain with men? By the road you have sat for them Like an Arabian in the wilderness; And you have polluted the land With your harlotries and your wickedness.
Therefore the showers have been withheld, And there has been no latter rain. You have had a harlot’s forehead; You refuse to be ashamed.
Will you not from this time cry to Me, ‘My Father, You are the guide of my youth?
Will He remain angry forever? Will He keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and done evil things, As you were able.”
The Lord said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: “Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot.
And I said, after she had done all these things, ‘Return to Me.’ But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
Then I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.
So it came to pass, through her casual harlotry, that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but in pretense,” says the Lord.
Then the Lord said to me, “Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say: ‘Return, backsliding Israel,’ says the Lord; ‘I will not cause My anger to fall on you. For I am merciful,’ says the Lord; ‘I will not remain angry forever.
Only acknowledge your iniquity, That you have transgressed against the Lord your God, And have scattered your charms To alien deities under every green tree, And you have not obeyed My voice,’ says the Lord.
“Return, O backsliding children,” says the Lord; “for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
“Then it shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land in those days,” says the Lord, “that they will say no more, ‘The ark of the covenant of the Lord.’ It shall not come to mind, nor shall they remember it, nor shall they visit it, nor shall it be made anymore.
“At that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the Lord, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem. No more shall they follow the dictates of their evil hearts.
“In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given as an inheritance to your fathers.
“But I said: ‘How can I put you among the children And give you a pleasant land, A beautiful heritage of the hosts of nations?’ “And I said: ‘You shall call Me, “My Father,” And not turn away from Me.’
And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end will be, For they are a perverse generation, Children in whom is no faith.
They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God; They have moved Me to anger by their foolish idols. But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation; I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.
For a fire is kindled in My anger, And shall burn to the lowest hell; It shall consume the earth with her increase, And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Then I will sow her for Myself in the earth, And I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; Then I will say to those who were not My people, ‘You are My people!’ And they shall say, ‘You are my God!’ ”
who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.
There will be 4 judgements in the punishment in the end times
‘I will heap disasters on them; I will spend My arrows on them.
They shall be wasted with hunger, Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction; I will also send against them the teeth of beasts, With the poison of serpents of the dust.
The sword shall destroy outside; There shall be terror within For the young man and virgin, The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
4 ARROWS ARE THE JUDGEMENTS
1- Famine (hunger - v24)
2- Death (v24)
3- Beasts (v24)
4- Sword (v25) Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Make the arrows bright! Gather the shields! The Lord has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. For His plan is against Babylon to destroy it, Because it is the vengeance of the Lord, The vengeance for His temple.
For thus says the Lord God: “How much more it shall be when I send My four severe judgments on Jerusalem—the sword and famine and wild beasts and pestilence—to cut off man and beast from it?
‘So it shall be a reproach, a taunt, a lesson, and an astonishment to the nations that are all around you, when I execute judgments among you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I, the Lord, have spoken.
When I send against them the terrible arrows of famine which shall be for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, I will increase the famine upon you and cut off your supply of bread.
So I will send against you famine and wild beasts, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken.’ ”
“Yet I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the countries.
When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come and see.”
So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.
5 - JUSTICE AND MERCY OF GOD
I would have said, “I will dash them in pieces, I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,”
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Justice
Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misunderstand, Lest they should say, “Our hand is high; And it is not the Lord who has done all this.” ’
“For they are a nation void of counsel, Nor is there any understanding in them.
Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!
MERCY
void of counsel = no common sense
no wisdom - ignorant
separated from God
Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” And they divided His garments and cast lots.
This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,
having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart;
We need to return to:
God
The Torah
The basics
so that Israel returns to God
Examples:
A- Lost son (Luke 15:11-32) - Ephraim
Older son- Judah
B-Joseph (Genesis 45:1-15)
How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their Rock had sold them, And the Lord had surrendered them?
For their rock is not like our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges.
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter.
Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of cobras.
‘Is this not laid up in store with Me, Sealed up among My treasures?
Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; Their foot shall slip in due time; For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things to come hasten upon them.’
6- COMFORT FOR ISRAEL
“For the Lord will judge His people And have compassion on His servants, When He sees that their power is gone, And there is no one remaining, bond or free.
“At that time Michael shall stand up, The great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people; And there shall be a time of trouble, Such as never was since there was a nation, Even to that time. And at that time your people shall be delivered, Every one who is found written in the book.
And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Those who are wise shall shine Like the brightness of the firmament, And those who turn many to righteousness Like the stars forever and ever.
“But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
Then I, Daniel, looked; and there stood two others, one on this riverbank and the other on that riverbank.
And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long shall the fulfillment of these wonders be?”
Then I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever, that it shall be for a time, times, and half a time; and when the power of the holy people has been completely shattered, all these things shall be finished.
Although I heard, I did not understand. Then I said, “My lord, what shall be the end of these things?”
And he said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.
“And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.
“But you, go your way till the end; for you shall rest, and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days.
He will say: ‘Where are their gods, The rock in which they sought refuge?
Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise and help you, And be your refuge.
‘Now see that I, even I, am He, And there is no God besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand.
For I raise My hand to heaven, And say, “As I live forever,
If I whet My glittering sword, And My hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to My enemies, And repay those who hate Me.
The Lord will kill and make alive Hebrews 4:12 (the two edge sword)
He will render them to His enemies (Romans 1 and 2)
I will make My arrows drunk with blood, And My sword shall devour flesh, With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the heads of the leaders of the enemy.” ’
The same as in Isaiah 63:1-4 where the Lord is trenched with blood.
“Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people; For He will avenge the blood of His servants, And render vengeance to His adversaries; He will provide atonement for His land and His people.”
And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb.
In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him.
They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads.
There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.
Summary
Summary
Presented a break down the Song of Moses in 6 parts
Point out the hidden prophetic messages in most of the parts
Link information to other prophets
Conclude the Song of Moses is the same as the Song of the Lamb