THE SONG OF MOSES - DEUTERONOMY 32

 

A FRESH LOOK AT THIS PROFOUND SONG

 

The Song of Moses may be the most profound prophecy in the Bible. Moses was seeing far into the future when he sang this song--all the way to the end of this age as described in the Book of Revelation. It is an ancient Hebrew poem in the simplest of form.

We can image it as taking place in the Supreme Court Room of Heaven. It is God’s opening statement, indictment, trial, and closing argument against sinful mankind as addressed to His people. It is God’s indictment against us all--but is also His expression of love towards His creation!

God gave man a free will to choose. Mankind as a whole was predestined to attain glory with God--to become His sons. We are all predestined, but the catch is how we decide with our free will. God does not want robots. He desires that we ask Him into our lives and follow his law--the Torah. This is what the entire book of Deuteronomy is about.

We can choose our “pre-destination” or choose to go another way. God’s sense of justice and righteousness demands that sin is judged. The Torah points out our sinful nature--it shows us that we need a redeemer. The law, Paul said, is spiritual. It took a spiritual act for God to redeem us through Yeshua. We could say the “letter” of the law was satisfied through the “spirit” of the law.

Man will resist God until the bitter end--but God’s great love for His creation will overcome all at the end of the age. He loves us all and someday we will all be together in His family. It is profound that man will resist and cause God to carry out His judgments in the earth. It would be so much easier for man to just listen to the words of Deuteronomy 28 and live according to the laws of the Kingdom! This poetical Song of Moses says it all.

1. Introduction, with summoning of witnesses. 32.1-3
“Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 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. For I proclaim the name of the Lord: Ascribe greatness to our God.”
 
Much of mankind’s worship has centered on heavenly bodies such as sun/moon worship, horoscopes, gaia, new age, etc. The earth and heavens were created to remind man of YHVH. The sun and moon were to create God’s calendar and be signs for the seasons and feasts of the Lord. The four season’s of the earth also were to remind man of the Lord’s Feasts (Gen 1.14/Lev 23).

The two witnesses, heaven and earth will witness the permanent giving of Torah to all peoples of the earth!

2. Summary accusation of Israel’s disloyalty. 32.4-6
“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. “They have corrupted themselves; they are not His children, because of their blemish: a perverse and crooked generation. 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?”
Yeshua was the Rock whom Israel followed in the wilderness. He is the Rock the assembly of the faithful is built upon. God the Father and Yeshua are just and true. Daniel (2.34) prophesied of the Rock which would destroy the fourth and final kingdom of man. The Rock would become a great mountain and fill all the earth.

3. Recital of YHVH’s loving actions on Israel’s behalf as the basis of the charge. 32.7-14
“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. 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
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. “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.”
 
The Lord expresses His great love for his disobedient and stiff necked people. The Lord’s portion is His people--the apple of His eye. This is both physical Israel (Judah) and those who comprise the one new man (Ephraim/Joseph). Jews and Joes!

4. Indictment of Israel as disloyal. 32.15-18
“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. 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.”
A very strong indictment by God against His rebellious people. Israel(Ephraim) will exhaust all his options pursuing her own way before turning back to YHVH. This is also the case for the State of Israel (Judah) today. She functions according to secular humanist government and tolerance of lifestyles that defile the Land.

5. Declaration of the decision to punish Israel. 32.19-25
“And when the Lord saw it, He spurned them, because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters. 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. ‘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.”
The end of the age will see the destruction of all man-made systems, rooted in Babylonian/Roman philosophy, which currently govern this earth. As God sent plagues upon Egypt, so he will do again to the whole earth on a global scale. Mankind will finally realize there is no power or protection in anyone but YHVH.
Note: We are not called to be judges in this life. We are called to be Defense Attorneys. We are to plead with God for the those who do not know the Lord to come to repentance and salvation. We are to be like a defense attorney appointed to one who has committed a criminal act and to plead for them. God will be the final judge.

6. YHVH recognizes a risk to His honor. 32.26-27
I would have said, “I will dash them in pieces, I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,” 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.”
 
"…the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7"The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but because the LORD loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers, the LORD brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt…Deut 7.6-8

God will be glorified in the presence of all nations and all nations will bow unto Him.

7. YHVH pivots from judgment of Israel to punishment of Israel’s enemies. 32.28-43
“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! 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.
 
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. 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. 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.

Rejoice, O ye Gentiles, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his slaves and will render vengeance to his enemies and will reconcile his land, to his people.”
The false gods, the rock of the nations, cannot stand up to King Yeshua. The nations will receive judgment and will know that the Lord is God at the end of this present age. The Gentiles (Joes) will rejoice with the Judah (Jews) at the final judgment of the nations and the land of Israel will be restored.

Moses said: "Just and right" are God’s "judgments." Deuteronomy 32
The Lamb says: "Just and true" are "thy judgments." Revelation 15.

"Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity,

just and right is he." Deuteronomy 32: 3-4

 

"And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty;

just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thy judgments are made manifest." Revelation 15:3-4

The Song of Moses is the one given by Moses to Israel the day that he died. It is called the Song of Moses and also the Song of the Lamb, because the Lamb later confirms that same Song to us. There were two songs given by Moses, forty years apart, one at the crossing of the Red Sea and the other was the song Moses’ sang the day that he died. Both are ancient poems that prophetically refer to the end of this present age.

Song of Moses after Red Sea

The first song of Moses was a song of triumph and of God’s judgment on His enemies. The song sung after the crossing of the Red Sea is recorded in Exodus 15:1-19. Both Moses and the children of Israel sang this together. It is a song of redemption for God’s people and final judgment against their enemies. It will be sung after Hasatan has been cast into the Lake of Fire forever!

Song of Moses and the Lamb

The Song of Moses and the Lamb proclaims God’s judgments and punishments against His own people and then against the wicked. On a future Day of Atonement, at His second coming, He receives His chastened people and then punishes their enemies. This will take place at the end of the age just prior to the beginning of the Millennial Kingdom.

The Song of Moses and the Lamb is a two-fold punishment. It pertains to both Jew and Gentile, Israel and the Church. Just as Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the other prophets pronounced God’s judgments against ancient Israel first, and then against her enemies, so does this song. It is a song describing the culmination of the age of man. It ushers in the thousand year Millennial Kingdom.
The disobedient people of God will repent during this time (working out their own salvation with fear and trembling), the true obedient followers will be “over comers”, and the wicked will be judged as the second coming unfolds (Matt 13:24-30).
The arm of the Lord brings deliverance--The Lord redeemed Israel “with an outstretched arm”(Exod.6:6), “To who has the arm of the Lord been revealed” (Isa.53:1), “Therefore my own arm brought salvation for me” (Isa.63:5)--it not something that we accomplish. No flesh shall glory in His presence (1 Corinthians 1.29).
That is the lesson of the Song of Moses and the Lamb. The Lord will deliver us--no man will be able to boast. We will cry out, “Come Lord Jesus” and the nation of Israel will cry out, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.”