Now to the song itself. It starts off with a declaration of the greatness of the Lord. Note that the whole of creation is called upon to listen to the song. God's plans were never just about Israel, it affected the whole world. We are called upon to learn the lessons from this judgement. It is a teaching for us.
The Lord is perfect and all His ways are just. This is a fundamental truth. Sometimes we see things that make us react. Now it is not wrong to react. Ezekiel, David and others reacted at what God was seeming to do, but in the end it is we who need to change. We will realise in the end that all His ways are indeed just.
Following on from God's greatness we come to the state of the Israelites. They are corrupt. The Lord had treated them well, yet they repaid Him with unrighteousness. Yet they were God's inheritance.
The nation was nothing, was not even a nation, until God found them and created them. It was the Lord alone who saved them, foreign gods played no part in things.
The Lord exalted the nation. Yet when success came the nation abandoned God. Instead she turned to foreign gods, to idols. They ended up worshipping demons.
In response the Lord rejected the people, and His wrath was shown to them. They refused to learn from these judgements.
Yet in the end He will save them. He will bring healing and restoration. This is the pattern we see again and again in the prophets in the Old Testament.
Moses was then taken up to see the land, but then died on Mount Nebo.
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