Post by Mark on Sept 16, 2007 6:57:35 GMT -8
I thought I'd step in on this one, though a little late.
The song of Moses is kind of a bad name... it's really the song of Adonai. In Deuteronomy 31:19, Adonai commands Moses to teach "this song". Such a statement suggests pretty heavily that the original source was Adonai. Of course, you throw 2nd Timothy 3:16 into the mix and it's a no-brainer.
When you first begin to read the song, it appears very encouraging. This is a love song: my doctrine is like the tender rain, the drops of dew and tender showers upon the grass. Yet, in just a few short verses it begins to read more like a tornado. The problem is that, not only are we unfamiliar with the Hebraic perspective of our faith, we're unfamiliar with National Geographic.
In Deuteronomy 32, verses 7 through 13 is a paranthetical. As the mommy eagle gathers her eaglets upon her wings, so Adonai will lift His people up. The eagle nests in high and rocky cliffs. The eaglets are safe from predators there. Their food is brought to them without any problem. Why should a mommy eagle take her little eaglets for a ride on her wings. She takes them up into the noes-bleed two-percent oxygen sky and drops them. They flap like mad as they plunge toward the earth, then she swoops down underneath them and takes them back up, drops them again, and again, until they finally figure out this whole flying business. Each time the eaglet is dropped, it learns two things, one it becomes stronger and more able to deal with the circumstances that it is in, second, it learns that Mommy can be trusted.
With this in consideration, the not so pleasant circumstances described as the Psalm of Moses continues take on a different meaning. The disciplining hand of Adonai is instructive and benevolent, not reactionary or malignant. Several of us, from time to time might be agitated with our Father and scream, "Stop dropping me!!!" Yet, what He is doing is consistent with His character, according to His promises, and inevitably for our good.
It gets worse. In Revelation 11-13, all Hell breaks loose and the earth becomes a very unpleasant place to live. In chapter 14, Adonai begins to reap His harvest. In chapter 15, verse 3, we find that the song being sung in heaven is the Song of Moses. The pattern is consistent and inevitably for our good.
In Revelation 15:3, we find being sung is the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb. Most Christian teaching is that the Song of the Lamb is being sung as replacement of the Song of Moses; but the text that is quoted is found in Deut. 32:4, the Song of Moses. In English, the word "and" suggests that we are talking about two different songs (the Song of Moses and the Song of the Lamb). In Greek it is not necessarily so: the word "and" (kahee) can simply represent cumulative force. The fact that there is only one phrase quoted suggests that there is at least consistency within the thoughts of the songs; but more likely, that the songs are actually one in the same. The Song of Moses IS the Song of the Lamb.
Lashana Tova Tikva Teh,
May your name be inscribed in the Lmbs Book fo Life.
Mark
The song of Moses is kind of a bad name... it's really the song of Adonai. In Deuteronomy 31:19, Adonai commands Moses to teach "this song". Such a statement suggests pretty heavily that the original source was Adonai. Of course, you throw 2nd Timothy 3:16 into the mix and it's a no-brainer.
When you first begin to read the song, it appears very encouraging. This is a love song: my doctrine is like the tender rain, the drops of dew and tender showers upon the grass. Yet, in just a few short verses it begins to read more like a tornado. The problem is that, not only are we unfamiliar with the Hebraic perspective of our faith, we're unfamiliar with National Geographic.
In Deuteronomy 32, verses 7 through 13 is a paranthetical. As the mommy eagle gathers her eaglets upon her wings, so Adonai will lift His people up. The eagle nests in high and rocky cliffs. The eaglets are safe from predators there. Their food is brought to them without any problem. Why should a mommy eagle take her little eaglets for a ride on her wings. She takes them up into the noes-bleed two-percent oxygen sky and drops them. They flap like mad as they plunge toward the earth, then she swoops down underneath them and takes them back up, drops them again, and again, until they finally figure out this whole flying business. Each time the eaglet is dropped, it learns two things, one it becomes stronger and more able to deal with the circumstances that it is in, second, it learns that Mommy can be trusted.
With this in consideration, the not so pleasant circumstances described as the Psalm of Moses continues take on a different meaning. The disciplining hand of Adonai is instructive and benevolent, not reactionary or malignant. Several of us, from time to time might be agitated with our Father and scream, "Stop dropping me!!!" Yet, what He is doing is consistent with His character, according to His promises, and inevitably for our good.
It gets worse. In Revelation 11-13, all Hell breaks loose and the earth becomes a very unpleasant place to live. In chapter 14, Adonai begins to reap His harvest. In chapter 15, verse 3, we find that the song being sung in heaven is the Song of Moses. The pattern is consistent and inevitably for our good.
In Revelation 15:3, we find being sung is the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb. Most Christian teaching is that the Song of the Lamb is being sung as replacement of the Song of Moses; but the text that is quoted is found in Deut. 32:4, the Song of Moses. In English, the word "and" suggests that we are talking about two different songs (the Song of Moses and the Song of the Lamb). In Greek it is not necessarily so: the word "and" (kahee) can simply represent cumulative force. The fact that there is only one phrase quoted suggests that there is at least consistency within the thoughts of the songs; but more likely, that the songs are actually one in the same. The Song of Moses IS the Song of the Lamb.
Lashana Tova Tikva Teh,
May your name be inscribed in the Lmbs Book fo Life.
Mark
