15:14-18
These verses seem to be looking ahead to the conquest of the Promised Land, and may be taken as being written in the “prophetic present”. I.e. Looking forward to what would happen, but treating it as if it had already happened. So the other nations would hear of what the Lord had done for His people and would be filled with fear. We see the purpose of the Lord, He will plant His people on the land that He has chosen. When God’s people lived under His guidance He acted on their behalf, and the nations were filled with fear. When they neglected the Lord, they were an object of scorn. The same applies to the church today. If we try to please the world, rejecting the Lord, then we become an object of scorn. Something we see all too often. It is only when we are true to the Lord that we genuinely influence the world.
15:19-21
15:19 summarises in prose what happened. The Egyptian army chased after the Israelites into the sea. The Lord had made a way for the Israelites, but then released the waters and the Egyptians were drowned. His people were safe. Miriam, Aaron’s sister, sang and danced with tambourine for the people, declaring that the Lord had triumphed gloriously, by throwing the horse and rider into the sea. As we know, Israel never remained faithful to the Lord for long. Indeed the last section of this chapter is an example of that. The tragedy of the human condition is that if we would only trust the Lord and obey Him life would be infinitely better.
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