The Song of Moses

By Mark Bouman

Because of where we’ve all come from and especially now because of where we are going, we, as God’s blood-bought people, have a reason to be rejoicing and giving Him the praise that He constantly deserves. Here is the antidote to overcoming the whelms and troubles we have to endure in this life here and what the result of what will be in our shared destinies ahead above in the presence of the Lord in the future! This adage holds true as we see from God’s perspective just why and where a renewed sense of “the awe of God” is necessary in our current praise and worship. Where you come from is not nearly as important as where you are going. Are you on the King’s Highway? (Because “None can go up there, but the pure in heart; as I’m walking up the King’s Highway, Hallelujah!” as the song sings…)

From Morning/Evening: Daily Readings (1994) by C. H. Spurgeon,

And so all Israel shall be saved. (Rom. 11:26; italics is mine)

When Moses sang at the Red Sea, it was his joy to know that all Israel were safe. Not a drop of spray fell from that solid wall until the last of God’s Israel had safely planted his foot on the other side of the flood. That done, immediately, the floods dissolved into their proper place, but not till then. Part of that song was, “Thou in thy mercy has led forth the people which thou hast redeemed.” In the last time, when the elect shall sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and of the Lamb, it shall be the boast of Jesus, “Of all whom thou hast given me, I have lost none.”

In heaven there shall not be a vacant throne.

For all the chosen race

Shall meet around the throne,

Shall bless the conduct of His grace,

And make His glories known.

As many as God hath chosen, as many as Christ hath redeemed, as many as the Spirit hath called, as many as believe in Jesus, shall safely cross the dividing sea. We are not all safely landed yet:

Part of the host have crossed the flood,

And part are crossing now.

The vanguard of the army has already reached the shore. We are marching through the depths; we are at this day following hard after our Leader into the heart of the sea. Let us be of good cheer: the rearguard shall soon be where the vanguard is: the last of the chosen ones shall soon have crossed the sea, and then shall be heard the song of triumph, when all are secure. But oh! If one were absent—oh! If one of his chosen family should be cast away—it would make an everlasting discord in the song of the redeemed, and cut the strings of the harps of paradise, so that music could never be exhorted from them.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
• Release date: Aug 12, 2021
• ISBN: 9781644689752

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Great and Marvelous Are Your Works, Lord God Almighty!

Moses, the man, the prophet of God! The name brings to mind thoughts of grandeur, of glory, and of greatness! The Old Testament scriptures reveal to us this man who endured through the hardships of leading the people of God through the most difficult of circumstances! I believe of all the people mentioned in the Bible, this one man probably demonstrates to us the fullest of all the attributes of the Lord, except for possibly one distinct area! (This is an aspect of His that can only be displayed fully by God Himself: His absolute holiness!)

While through Moses and his zeal, God did accomplish His purposes on earth, He only allowed himself and the Israelites up to a certain point. The Promised Land, which laid ahead of them, could only be entered into by the direction of two other men: Caleb and Joshua! We will look at how Moses’s life (and those two men) will exemplify for us a true characteristic that will be found in God’s own people here in our time and at the end of the age!

Moses is also referred to as the servant of God in Holy Writ! The Lord even mentions this chief attribute concerning Moses:

Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth. (Num. 12:3)

The King James Version of the Bible uses the word meek when it describes his humility! It means to be in a lowly state of mind! This is an attribute that can be found in God Himself! Read these passages with me out of the Psalms.

My heart is overflowing with a good theme:

I recite my composition concerning the King;

My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

You are fairer than the sons of men;

Grace is poured upon Your lips;

Therefore God has blessed You forever.

Gird Your sword upon Your thigh,

O Mighty One, with Your glory and Your majesty.

And in Your majesty ride prosperously

because of truth, humility and righteousness;

and Your right hand shall teach You

awesome things. (Pss. 45:1–4; italics added)

It can most assuredly be found throughout the entire Bible that it is a humble people that the Lord is seeking after! And this will be something that will be found if we seek it in Him! I think that is where Moses discovered this divine attribute! It is clear that this will be something that can be found in God’s people right up until when the day of the Lord’s anger4 comes! As we are told by the mouth of Zephaniah, the prophet,

Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth, who have upheld His justice. Seek righteousness, seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger. (Zeph. 2:3; italics added)

What was it that truly got Moses through those painstaking times in the wilderness with that unbelieving crowd? (Of whom he sang about at his journey’s end… For they are a perverse generation. Children in whom is no faith.) One thing that most definitely can be seen in Moses’s life is that he was able to rejoice (in the Lord) through even the worst of troubles!

What I wish to cover in this study of Moses’s life and the songs that he had sung is the truth that can be derived from the scriptures as we discover the humility that can be ours as God reveals His righteousness to us!

There are three particular songs that are mentioned in the Old Testament that are attributed to this man! And there is one of his songs written down in the New Testament in the book of Revelation (which is actually put together from the components of his first three songs; kind of like a reprise of the others)! One of these songs came after the crossing of the Red Sea, of which the Bible says,

Thus Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done in Egypt; so the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord and Moses. Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the Lord, and spoke saying: "I will sing to the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!

The Lord is my strength and mv song. And He has become my salvation; He is my God, and I will praise Him; My father’s God, and I will exalt Him…" (Exod. 14:31, 15:1–2; italics added)5

Another song came after their failure in the wilderness to enter into the Promised Land! (See Numbers 13 and 14.) Psalm 90 was penned by Moses out of that experience of which we will look into further along.

The last of Moses’s songs came just before he died and before their entrance into that land of which he only got a glimpse of. (Remember, he had to wander with that generation for 40 years!) Moses believed in his 120 years of living, that God’s work was perfect, and that His ways were just!

Here is what he sang near the time of his death,

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. (Deut. 32:4; italics added)

This was from the beginning of his last song!6 And this is what was told to the children of Israel as to what would happen after Moses’s death and even in the latter days before the start of his song:

For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days, because you will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger through the works of your hands. (Deut. 31:29; italics added)

This single verse should serve as a warning to us in our day as well!

It is a sad commentary that our society today has not changed and has grown increasingly worse and worse. The most devastating thing mentioned in the book of Revelation, in my opinion, is this said about mankind at that time…that they "did not repent of the works of their hands…and they did not repent of their murders or their