Moses Song (Part 1)

Deuteronomy Chapter 32 Verses 1-27

Moses recited this song to the assembly of Israel: ( I will have to paraphrase this greatly, as it is a very long song)
“Listen, O heavens, and I will speak! Hear, O Earth, the words that I say!
My teaching will fall on you like rain; my speech will settle like dew.
My words will fall like rain on tender grass, like gentle showers on young plants.
I will proclaim the name of the Lord; how glorious is our God!
He is the Rock; his work is perfect. Everything he does is just and fair.
He is a faithful God who does no wrong; how just and upright he is!”

Verses 5 -19 sing about how the Israelites acted corruptly to God and became deceitful. Moses asks, “is this the way you repay the Lord?” He reminds them that God created them. He asks them to remember the days of long ago and how their elders can tell them when the Lord assigned lands and divided up the human race and established boundaries of the people. All because the people of Israel belonged to the Lord and were his special possession.

Verses 10-14 sing about how God found the people in a desert land and guarded them like an eagle that rouses her chicks and hovers over her young. The Lord protected them, and guided them and they lived with no foreign gods. He nourished them with honey from cliffs and olive oil from hard rock and fed them curds from the herd and milk from the flock. And the Lord gave them choice rams and goats and the finest wine made from the juice of grapes.

Verses 15-18 sing about how the Israelites grew fat and unruly and abandoned the God who had made them. They made light of the Rock of their salvation, and stirred up his jealousy by worshipping other gods and provoked his fury with detestable acts. The people offered sacrifices to demons, and gods they had not known before, to gods their ancestors had never feared. The people neglected the Rock who fathered them and forgot the God who gave birth to them.

Verses 19-27 sing about how the Lord saw all this happening and was filled with loathing and was provoked to anger. The Lord said, “ I will abandon them; I will see to their end!” The Israelites had roused his jealousy by worshipping non-gods and useless idols. So the Lord would rouse their jealousy by blessing other nations and would bless the foolish Gentiles. The Lord’s anger blazes forth like a fire and devours the earth and its crops and heaps disasters upon the people. He would send down burning fever, and deadly disease, famine, wild beasts and poisonous snakes and terror will strike both young men and young women. He would scatter them so their adversaries might understand and say “ Our power has triumphed! It was not the Lord who did this!”

BIBLE NOTES SHOW Moses was a great song leader and after three sermons, he changed to singing his sermon. The Israelites had no excuse for abandoning God after all he had done for them. He alone had led them.

How does this chapter relate to us today? God continues to lead us to this very day. Look about at all the treasures he has given us. Look at the simplicity of the beautiful fall days we are experiencing; how wonderful the leaves turn color, the sky crisp blue, the signs of animals making haste to get ready for the coming winter. There is beauty in our surroundings, and God made that just for us to enjoy. So enjoy! and praise the Lord!
Yours in Christ,
Mary

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