So, heeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeee'ssss Johnny!
John now looks and sees yet another PICTURE, a sign, a supernatural wonder in heaven. He SEES seven angels who have the seven last plagues containing the wrath of God to be poured out upon the earth on that Day of Vengeance by the King of kings and Lord of lords.
The good news is that the wrath of God is complete, i.e. it will be fulfilled and over with in these seven plagues. Seven remember is the number of spiritual perfection or completeness. Even "gooder" news is that His wrath is poured out only on His enemies and NOT on His children who have already overcome and are now preparing to sing the Old Testament version of "We are the Champions".Rev. 15:1
And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
Do you remember this sparkling, crystalline "sea of glass" from chapter 4 verse 6? It is the floor before the very throne of God. And now, standing on that pure sea of glass are those who have overcome Satan, and his one world system, and his deception of claiming to be the Messiah. And they have musical instruments to play as they sing in the next verse.[2] And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
Just and true are the ways of the King of Nations (as the texts read), i.e. the King of kings.[3] 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.
And what is the Song of Moses and the Song of the Lamb? The "Ode of Moses" or "The Ballad of Moses the Servant of God" is the 32nd chapter of Deuteronomy, which sums up the plan of salvation, which draws from the entire Word of God, which is the Word of the Lamb, which is His Song.
It is, as Dr. Bullinger notes in the Companion Bible (Deut. 31:30), the key to the apocalypse of Rev. 15:3.
Why?
Because it tells of His greatness and of the proclamation of His Word and it tells the story of the plan of God, the plan of the Rock of our Salvation for His people. It tells of those would claim to be God's chosen people as taught in these latter times by the churches of Smyrna and Philadelphia, but whose rock is not our Rock for they are a perverse and crooked generation, and their vine is not of the true Vine.
It tells of how dearly and lovingly our Father brought forth and nourished and protected His people, giving them of the fattest portions and blessings of the earth and how after all that, they turned their backs and whored after other gods, provoking our Father to jealousy. It tells of how His people would become "lo ammi", which is to say "not my people" for period of time.
It tells of how He would scatter His people abroad and they would lose their identity, no longer calling themselves of the House of Israel and in fact calling themselves gentiles. It tells of how God would allow the "teeth of beasts" and the "poison of serpents" to come upon them to chastise them, and yet through all of this our loving Father would not forsake them.
Finally it tells how in the end, in the last days, that God would render vengeance to His enemies and to the enemies of His people, that they would know that He and He alone is Sovereign, and that there is no other rock but Him. It is that Day of Vengeance, the pouring out of those 7 Last Plagues, at which point we are in the Book of Revelation.
Yes, the overcomers of the beast and his system and his locust army will be singing the Victory Song, the Song of Moses, for in it we know the plan from the beginning and in the end we know that His Word has come to pass exactly as it was written. We have the victory!
So here is a question of paramount importance. When is the last time you heard the Song of Moses, the 32nd chapter of Deuteronomy, taught in your church, or even read for that matter? Of course many churches teach that you don't need to know the Book of Revelation because you're going to fly on out of here before all those events occur. Therefore they never read the 15th chapter of Revelation and are completely unaware that the overcomers will be singing the Song of Moses. I guess their names won't be printed among the choir members in the program directory. They will be elsewhere getting squeezed in the winepress.
So it would serve us well before we finish this 15 chapter of Revelation to review the Song of Moses. The last verse in Deut. 31 gives us the identity of this song.
Do you have ears to hear?Deut. 31:30
And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.
Listen, both heaven and earth! And sure enough this song is sung on earth as we read in chapter 14 and sung in heaven as we read in chapter 15.Deut. 32:1
Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
His doctrine, His truth, His way shall drop as pure as the purest water, which is the morning dew, and as the gentle rain which brings fruit to the maturity of harvest.[2] My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
His gospel and His name will be published (proclaimed) throughout all the world (Mark 13:10).[3] Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Psalm 62:6-7 "He only is my Rock and my salvation: He is my defence; I shall not be moved. [7] In God is my salvation and my glory: the Rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. [8] Trust in Him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before Him: God is a refuge for us. Selah."[4] 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.
The "they" are the "children of disobedience", a perverse and crooked generation. Their leopard spots do not belong to God's children. They are the tares of Mat. 13, the offspring of Cain (John 8:44), those who claim to be God's children but are liars and are of the synagogue of Satan (Rev. 2:9 and 3:9).[5] They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of His children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
He purchased us with His own blood.[6] Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not He thy Father that hath bought thee? hath He not made thee, and established thee?
Ask one who is mature in the Word of God about the things of old that were given for ensamples for us today (1 Cor 10:11).[7] Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
We now go back to Genesis and see the 8th day man, Adam, separated from the nations and the boundaries set according to God's will and His plan.[8] When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
But the Lord's portion, His inheritance, is His people and vice versa (Num. 18:20, Deut. 18:2).[9] For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Our Father nourishes and instructs and is as protective of His children as we are of the pupil of our eye, i.e. instinctive and instant to react.[10] He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; He led him about, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.
The great eagle is swift and masterful and strong as it spreads its wings to protect and as it swoops down to bear up its young when it falls while learning to fly.[11] As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
Even as God led Israel forty years in the wilderness and purged an entire idolatrous generation before He took them into the land of milk and honey.[12] So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
As He promised Abraham, confirmed in Isaac and again in Jacob, Israel, that his seed would inherit great national wealth and blessings. And who is it that has become the wealthiest and most prosperous nation in the history of mankind?[13] He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
This verse describes the richness of those blessings. Kine are cows, Bashan means "fruitful", and "kidneys of wheat" are the heart, or white of the wheat. They were to have the best of the best![14] Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
Jeshurun is a symbolical name for Ideal Israel, i.e. Upright Israel. And when they became "fat and happy", with plenty to eat, with money in the bank and plush 401k's, and plenty of entertainment, then they didn't have much time for God. Sound familiar?[15] But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
But just let the good times cease or calamity befall them and they turn quickly and say "Oh God, please help us!"
So it would seem that when the sun is always shining that God's people soon take it for granted and cease to appreciate its warmth and kindness, until a violent storm comes along and destroys their crop and takes their roof off.
Then hopefully they will return to the Rock of their salvation at which point the storm was truly a blessing.
We are studying the 15th chapter of the Book of Revelation, and in verse 3 we saw that the overcomers of the beast and his image (his image is that he is Jesus), and his beast system (the one world political system), were singing the Song of Moses, the 32nd chapter of Deuteronomy.
Now since "momma didn't raise no fools" we figured it would be a "wise 'ting" to know the words of the song before we had to sing them or we just might be humming a different tune. Know what I mean?
We had just read how that our Father had richly blessed His children. You might even say that He spoiled them. And guess what? They got fat and lazy and began to think their riches were an entitlement and that the "good times" would never end, and they forgot God and sought after other gods.
That didn't make our Father too happy with them, nor does He like it today.
His children were indignant then and they are indignant now! How so?Deut. 32:16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
Today the traditions of men have His "sottish" children rolling Ishtar eggs and placing little fertile bunnies at the altars in their churches during the most sacred time of the year, the Passover. And that's just the beginning.[17] They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly at he is up, whom your fathers feared not.
That's pretty evident as we look out across our nation and in our cities and in our schools.[18] Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
God hates their works. Oh yes, have you never read His Word?[19] And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
So our Father says, "I'll stop answering their prayers and see if they 'get it'!"[20] And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
"Vanities" means "emptiness". Look it up. Their churches are full of emptiness. They have become 'Beth-avins', Houses of Emptyness, instead 'Beth-els', Houses of God.[21] They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
"So not only will I stop answering their prayers", our Father says, "but I will allow the kenites to come in and afflict them, and bind them into captivity until the end of this age!"
"Unto the river of the wilderness" means "until the end of this age". Hemath was the father of the kenites. So the question is, are you familiar with the four hidden dynasties which are controlled by the kenites? You can't overcome the enemy and be victorious and sing the Song of Moses if don't know who the enemy is!Amos 6:14
But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.
And in the end, our Father, who is a consuming fire (Heb. 12:29) shall cleanse this earth of all that is evil.[22] For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
They picked the wrong One to have angry at them![23] I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
Hunger and intense burning fever and bitter destruction. Problems, problems and more problems. Worse yet, the lowlife serpents and the beast system will "chew you up". Without the gospel armor on, you have no defense.[24] They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
There's no hiding place and it applies to all, young and old alike![25] The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
Jacob, the House of Israel! Hello, where are you? Wake up![26] I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
Yep, and He did scatter them and they have lost their identity. Most cannot trace their genealogy past great grandpa and are clueless from whence they cometh. They are 10 lost tribes of Israel, indeed! They are so lost they have allowed the kenite to convince them that they are gentiles. How humiliating, if they only knew!
Note: If you don't know who and where the so called 10 Lost Tribes of Israel are, then you need to acquire the booklet "The Abrahamic Covenant" by E. Raymond Capt, and start there.
God is so angry that He'd let the enemy continue, but He knows that they'd take all the credit for His chastisement.[27] Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
One becomes void of counsel by not listening to the Wonderful Counsellor. And so common sense and understanding disappear. Your documentation for this is the evening news! CNN = Counsellor Not Near! NBC = Never Believe Christ! and ABC = Anyone But Christ![28] For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
When the children of God forsake Him, the children of disobedience take over![29] O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
But the overcomers who will be singing this song know and understand this and they have considered the latter end! That's even why they are reading this study.
This is real simple. One man and God form a majority against all enemies. Remember the words of Christ?[30] How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
But without our Father, your "mind" is dead meat for serpents and locusts to devour.Luke 10:19
Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Their god is not as our God. Even our enemies know that.[31] For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
There are two rocks, the false messiah (little rock) and the True Messiah (capital "R"). And so it is that their god is Satan and not Jesus Christ.
(Yes I know, and what a "type" we have witnessed from "little rock". If people can support and believe an amateur liar, cheat and thief, I guarantee you they will absolutely love Satan, the most charismatic leader of all time, and supernatural too. After all, he drew fully 1/3 of all God's children into his New World Order (of old) with his prosperity programs and trafficking.)
The fruit produced from their vine is nothing but perversion and idolatry all of which is in "bad taste" and our Father hates it. He took care of the grapes in Sodom and Gomorrah, didn't He? And why do you suppose He did?[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:
There's your example! If we don't do something about the perversion in this country, our Father will! He means business! He hates it! Tell that to the ACLU.2 Peter 2:6
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
Did I mention that without our Father, the "mind" is dead meat for serpents and locusts to devour?[33] Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
If you've studied Revelation with us to this point then you know who the red dragon is, that old serpent, the devil and Satan. And if you are able to count the number of beast from the beginning and have studied the Book of Genesis, then you know who the serpent's children are, i.e. the seed of serpent. Remember in Gen. 3:15 that God placed enmity between the serpent's "seed" and the woman's "seed", God's children. The children of the serpent are the kenites, the sons of Cain, the tares of Mat. 13, those who call themselves of Judah, but who are liars and of the synagogue of Satan (Rev. 2:9, 3:9).
It sure is, and if you have ears to hear you can hear a trumpet in the next verse.[34] Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
To fully understand the thought of verses 34 and 35 they should read as follows (as documented in the Companion Bible):[35] To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
That Day of Vengeance occurs at Christ's second advent, not His first. That is why in Luke 4:19-20 Jesus stood up in the synagogue and read only the first half of Isa. 61:2.Deut. 32:34-35
Is not this laid up in store with Me,
Sealed up among my treasures?
For the day of vengeance, and recompence,
For the time when their foot shall slip?
The reason Jesus didn't read the second half of the verse was because it did not apply then, i.e. it was not time for that Day of Vengeance, but it soon shall be! Here's the second half of Isa. 61:2:Luke 4:19-20
To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. [20] And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on Him.
And so it shall be on that first day of the Millennium, when this Song of Moses is being sung by the overcomers, the champions, that Vengeance shall have already been poured out, and those that mourned will no longer say "... How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? (Rev. 6:10), for they shall have been comforted!Isaiah 61:2
To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
Let us continue now with Song of Moses, the 32nd chapter of Deuteronomy, which those "who have gotten the victory over the beast" are singing in Revelation 15:3.
In verse 35 the Lord said "To Me belongeth vengeance" and "the day of their calamity is at hand".
This verse is just a little clearer in some of the other translations. For example, the New American Standard has it:Deut. 32:36 For the LORD shall judge His people, and repent Himself for His servants, when He seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
God will not forsake His people and He will have compassion on them in their captivity by the beast and his systems, and the day WILL COME that He will put a stop to it! And when He does:Deut. 32:36
For the Lord will vindicate His people,
And will have compassion on His servants;
When He sees that their strength is gone,
And there is none remaining, bond or free, (N.A.S.)
And the Lord shall say "Hey, where's the 'Big Talker Boy' now? Where is he who promised peace and prosperity to all and a free ride in the Rapturemobile for all those who would follow him?"Deut. 32:37 And He shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,
And the answer is: Since it is the 1st day of the Millennium, Satan has been placed in the pit and will be bound for the entire 1,000 years. Rev. 20:2 "And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,"
And so during the Millennium people will walk by him and shake their heads and say "unbelievable, just look at him now".
You can even continue from this verse right on with verse 38 of the Song of Moses:Isaiah 14:16
They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
Yes, the little rock, Satan, had everyone sacrificing to him, i.e. giving their offerings to him, for he had the whole world deceived into believing he was Jesus.Deut. 32:38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
So the LORD says "Let Satan and his little rock group help you now!" (Of course Satan is in the pit and his 7,000 angels have been slain.) It is a pretty sad state of affairs, wouldn't you say?
Having now made His point as to "the worthless one", the Lord continues:
The Lord God Almighty is in charge. He alone "calls the shots" and that's the way it is. That's the way it always has been. And that's the way it is always going to be![39] See now that I, even I, am He, and there is no god with Me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
For He is the Eternal God of Hosts.[40] For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
So when He sharpens that glittering Two-edged Sword, those that have it coming are going to get it![41] If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
Is that not what we are now reading about in Rev. 15, about the Day of Vengeance?
"From the beginning of revenges upon the enemy" means that He will start with chief leader of the enemy.[42] I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
Remember the last verse in Rev. 14 "and the blood will run as high as a horse's bridle for two hundred miles." Again, this is spiritual for the sword is the Word of God, and never forget, when Christ returns the flesh age is over, i.e. all flesh is changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, to spiritual bodies (1 Cor. 15).
So what is the conclusion of the matter?
Rejoice, Rejoice! All ye nations rejoice with His people! This day is a happy day![43] Rejoice, O ye nations, with His people: for He will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to His adversaries, and will be merciful unto His land, and to His people.
God's people are no longer praying "How long?", they are rejoicing and singing "Hallelujah"! They are singing the Song of Moses, the song of victory, for He was merciful to His children while rendering vengeance to His enemies.
How appropriate it is that this Song of Moses will be sung on that day of victory. Let us recap why:
"Because it tells of His greatness and of the proclamation of His Word and it tells the story of the plan of God, the plan of the Rock of our Salvation for His people. It tells of those would claim to be God's chosen people as taught in these latter times by the churches of Smyrna and Philadelphia, but whose rock is not our Rock for they are a perverse and crooked generation, and their vine is not of the true Vine.The Song of Moses is ended in verse 43. We return now to the 15th chapter of Revelation.It tells of how dearly and lovingly our Father brought forth and nourished and protected His people, giving them of the fattest portions and blessings of the earth and how after all that, they turned their backs and whored after other gods, provoking our Father to jealousy. It tells of how His people would become "lo ammi", which is to say "not my people" for period of time.
It tells of how He would scatter His people abroad and they would lose their identity, no longer calling themselves of the House of Israel and in fact calling themselves gentiles. It tells of how God would allow the "teeth of beasts" and the "poison of serpents" to come upon them to chastise them, and yet through all of this our loving Father would not forsake them.
Finally it tells how in the end, in the last days, that God would render vengeance to His enemies and to the enemies of His people, that they would know that He and He alone is Sovereign, and that there is no other rock but Him. It is that Day of Vengeance, the pouring out of those 7 Last Plagues".
Rev. 15:3
And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
Along with the Song of Moses we read that the overcomers also sing the Song of the Lamb, the words of which are given to us ahead of time. Imagine that![4] Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.
These words are composed from various verses (see references in the Companion Bible) of the Word of the Lamb and complimentary to the victory song, the Song of Moses.
"GREAT AND MARVELOUS ARE THY WORKS,There are 8 lines to the Song of Lamb. 8 in Biblical numerics is the number of "new beginnings" and "resurrection" (see appendix 10 in the Companion Bible). And so it is that this song is sung on the 1st day of a "new era", the Millennial reign of Jesus Christ and His "zadok", by those who have just been "resurrected" to both their spiritual bodies and eternal life.
O LORD GOD, THE ALMIGHTY;
RIGHTEOUS AND TRUE ARE THY WAYS,
THOU KING OF THE NATIONS.
WHO WILL NOT FEAR, O LORD, AND GLORIFY THY NAME?
FOR THOU ALONE ART HOLY;
FOR ALL NATIONS WILL COME AND WORSHIP BEFORE THEE,
FOR THY RIGHTEOUS ACTS HAVE BEEN REVEALED." N.A.S.
Though the texts read "with precious stone pure and white" instead of "pure and white linen", either way it shows that these angels are clothed with righteous acts (remember from chapter 3 that white raiment, i.e. white clothing, is righteous acts?).[5] And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:[6] And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.
Remember also from chapter four who the four beasts, the four living beings, are? They are the handsome "Zoon", the cherubims arrayed in the "standards" of Israel, who guard the throne of God. They are the ones who called John forth to the throne to take a look at the first four seals.[7] And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.
And now one of them gave unto the seven angels the golden vials full of the wrath of God, which we will see poured out in the next chapter.
Though we have the victory in it, our Father is not pleased to have to pour out His wrath, to execute judgment and "tough love". We are all His children from the beginning of creation, even from the first earth age, and He so wishes that all His children would love Him. And so the pouring out of His wrath shall be a solemn occasion to Him and the door to the temple shall be closed.[8] And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.
Let us all remember that as we see His wrath poured out
in chapter 16 of Revelation.