Wednesday, June 28, 2017

OT: The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 32

Deuteronomy 32:1-52

We learned about the Song of Moses in the previous chapter. This song was written by Moses to explain not only the Israelites history from beginning to end, but also humanities. The song of Moses explains God's beauty and power, love and generosity. The song explains that although God has always been faithful to us, we have frequently broken our end of the covenant. Our separation from Him always leads to suffering. Yet the song also explains that God's most faithful children will recognize Him when He returns to earth, at the culmination of our sojourn here.

Revelation 15:3 prophesies to us that upon our defeat over the root and the existence of evil, God's most faithful, most vigilant children will sing the Song of Moses:
1 Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them the wrath of God is complete. 
2 And I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who have the victory over the beast, over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God. 
3 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! 
4 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.”
This song will take place immediately after the end of the false-christ's temporary reign. Those who were not deceived by him, because they read and knew of the warning of his coming deception will sing. This is the song the children who studied and knew the whole picture, through learning the whole scripture, will sing. They (we) will rejoice because we will personally witness the fulfillment of all of God's prophesies as well as His ultimate triumph over evil.

The Bible repeatedly warns us of false-gods, false-prophets and false-messiahs. Only those who know how to recognize their true God will emphatically, naturally know the words to this song of joy. The song of Moses is our spiritual journey of redemption, our love story.

The Song of Moses:
1 “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak;
And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 
2 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. 
3 For I proclaim the name of the Lord:
Ascribe greatness to our God. 
4 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. 
5 “They have corrupted themselves;
They are not His children,
Because of their blemish:
A perverse and crooked generation. 
6 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?

7 “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: 
8 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. 
9 For the Lord’s portion is His people;
Jacob is the place of His inheritance.

10 “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. 
11 As an eagle stirs up its nest,
Hovers over its young,
Spreading out its wings, taking them up,
Carrying them on its wings, 
12 So the Lord alone led him,
And there was no foreign god with him.

13 “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; 
14 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.

15 “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. 
16 They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods;
With abominations they provoked Him to anger. 
17 They sacrificed to demons, not to God,
To gods they did not know,
To new gods, new arrivals
That your fathers did not fear. 
18 Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful,
And have forgotten the God who fathered you.

19 “And when the Lord saw it, He spurned them,
Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters. 
20 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. 
21 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. 
22 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.

23 ‘I will heap disasters on them;
I will spend My arrows on them. 
24 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. 
25 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.
26 I would have said, “I will dash them in pieces,
I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,”
27 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.”’

28 “For they are a nation void of counsel,
Nor is there any understanding in them. 
29 Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this,
That they would consider their latter end! 
30 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? 
31 For their rock is not like our Rock,
Even our enemies themselves being judges. 
32 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. 
33 Their wine is the poison of serpents,
And the cruel venom of cobras.

34 ‘Is this not laid up in store with Me,
Sealed up among My treasures? 
35 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.’

36 “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. 
37 He will say: ‘Where are their gods,
The rock in which they sought refuge? 
38 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.

39 ‘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. 
40 For I raise My hand to heaven,
And say, “As I live forever, 
41 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. 
42 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.”’

43 “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.”
32:44 Upon finishing the song, the story of our lives, Moses stands with Joshua. Joshua will take over Moses position as prophet and will lead the children of Israel into the promise land. At the culmination of this earth age, God will lead us into our spiritual-promised-land.

32:45-47 Moses implores us to take these words into our hearts. For these words are alive. They are not futile, as Moses explains, because they are the path that leads us to our spiritual Home

32:48-52 Although Moses will not enter the promise land, God enables him to view it from Mount Nebo. Moses is about to enter in Spirit, having fulfilled his purpose on earth. God enables Moses to see the final product of all of His good-fruit, all of his works here on earth. Remember that faith without works is dead, James 2:14. All of the prophets, even the messiah, came as workers. At the culmination of your life, give God the opportunity to show you all the ways you changed the world for the better.