The Song of Moses I - Exodus 15

THE SONG OF MOSES

Taught by:  Carolyn Sissom

Sunday, February 10, 2008

1 Corinthians 10:11:  “Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples; and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.”

Exodus 15:1:  “Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord.

Moses and the children are a type of Jesus Christ and His Body. (Isaiah 8:18) Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwells in Mount Zion.”  (Ex. 15:2) I will sing unto the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider has he thrown into the sea.”  The word thrown here means to hurl, shoot (bow).”  Moses began and ended his wilderness ministry with a song. (Deut. 32) 

15:2:  “The Lord is my strength and my song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him a habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.”

This song was sung by the Holy Ghost in the power of Elohim who is the Lord our strength and song and is become our salvation. (Neh. 8:10b) “The joy of the Lord is our strength.”

There are three names for God in this verse:  LORD (“JAH’, The Eternal, inhabiting eternity. GOD (“EL”)  and God (Elohim) who sang the song through His Servant, Moses.   Our Father is God and we are to prepare HIM a habitation.  (Eph 2:19-20)  Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God; and built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;”

15:3:  The Lord is a man of War.  (“Ish” – notable man, man of high degree).  (Rev. 18-19) “After these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power, and the earth was lightened with his glory.  And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, is become the habitation of devils…After these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; salvation, and glory, and honor and power, unto the Lord our God; for true and righteous are his judgments.

15:4-7:  “Pharaoh’s chariots and his host has he cast into the sea; his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.  The depths have covered them; they sank unto the bottom as a stone. Thy right hand, O lord is become glorious in power; thy right hand, O lord, has dashed in pieces the enemy.  And in the greatness of your Excellency you have overthrown them that rose up against you:  You sent forth your wrath, which consumed them as stubble.

This description of stubble is again in the day of the Lord in Joel 2:  This is a description of the army of the Lord triumphant over the kingdom of darkness.

Joel 2:5:  “Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.”

15:8:  “And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as a heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.  The sea moved at the blast (“Ruach – SPIRIT)  of His nostrils.  (11 Sam. 22:7-9) “In my distress, I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God; and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.  Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.  There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.”

You can see that it was no trouble for the Lord to part the Red Sea.  He used the Israelites to bring Pharaoh and his army to the trap.  Pharaoh thought he had the Israelites trapped and the Lord sprung the trap.  The Lord used the control and pride of the spirit of Leviathan in Pharaoh to set the trap.  Pharaoh fell like a toy soldier.    It was a set-up deal.  The Lord is again moving on the face of the earth.  Wickedness has come into fruition.  The devil will always go too far.  When he does his pride and control will bring him down.  Our job is just to be obedient, sweet, nice, good, loving,  meek and kind.  However, when the Lord says go forward, move quickly.  Put the pedal to the metal and don’t look back.

15:9:  “The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, and my hand shall destroy them.

Four “I’ will’s”  of the enemy.

15:10-13:  You did blow with your wind, ‘the sea covered them:  they sank as lead in the mighty waters.  Who is like unto you, O Lord, among the gods?  Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?  You stretch out your right hand, the earth swallowed them. You in your mercy have led for the people whom you have redeemed:  you have guided them in your strength unto your Holy Habitation.  The people shall hear, and be afraid; sorrow shall take hold of the inhabitants of Palestina.  Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, shall take hold unto them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.  Fear and dread shall take hold on them; by the greatness of your arm they shall be as still as a stone; till you people pass over, O lord, till the people pass over, which you have purchased.  You shall bring them in the mountain of your inheritance, in the place O Lord which your hands have established.  The Lord shall reign forever and ever.”

In this song, the Holy Spirit is speaking that God’s arm (power) has defeated the enemy and will prophetically defeat the enemy until Israel passes over into Canaan (Kingdom) and  the future victory of the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in Heaven. 

Isaiah 25: 6-12, is another reading of this same prophetic word for the Redeemed of the Lord.  Yet in Isaiah we have the prophecy of the deliverance of the redeemed for all nations.  Isaiah looks forward and is transported beyond the crash of the worlds into the new heavens and the new earth and put into the mouth of the redeemed a song of praise (“Elohim”) to God for his wonderful works.  Death is destroyed in the Mountain of Zion.  This refers first of all to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead, and then to his glorious church who shall walk in what he died for! (Heb. 10: 12-13)

Zion is the mountain of His inheritance, the place which God has made for Himself to dwell in, and the Sanctuary which His hands have established. (Psa. 11; Mic. 4: 1-8; Heb. 12: 22-24)  P.P.T.K.V.

1. Zion is where the throne of God is eternally established and sure against all attacks of the enemy.  (Psa. 2:6; 87:5)
2. Zion is the dwelling-place of God, where He is gloriously praised, where His doings are known. (Psa. 9::11)
3. Zion is the place where God’s most glorious praise is known, because there the fullness of salvation is known in the lives of the redeemed. (Psa. 9:14)
4. Zion is the source of continual salvation.  Those who discover Zion know the fullness of salvation, and yet learn day by day more of an increasing fullness. (Psa. 14:7; 53:6; Isa. 46:13; )
5. Zion is the JOY of the whole earth, experienced already by man, anticipated by others, travailed after by all. (Psa. 48:2).  This joy of the Lord is our strength.
6. Zion is the source of strength and support for the people of God, especially in the day of trouble. (Psa. 20:2; 48:12)
7. Zion is the place of rejoicing in the judgments of God, for in Zion men come to know a true perspective of God’s judgment and righteousness. (Psa. 48:11)
8. Zion is the perfection of beauty, out from which the Light of God shines. (Psa. 50:2)
9. Zion is the place where praise to the Lord is perfected:  a praise which arises out of a perfect rest in the Lord, so much so that silent expectation becomes praise in Zion.  In Zion is the realm of perfection. (Psa. 65:1)
10. Zion is loved much by the Lord and therefore glorified much by Him. (Psa. 87:2-3)
11. Zion is where the Lord is known in His Greatness. (Psa. 99:2)
12. Zion is the hope of all the afflicted. (Psa. 102:16-22)
13. Zion is where God reigns in the now.  It is the realm from which the scepter (rod) of His strength is stretched forth.  The mercy-seat in the Most Holy Place is the throne of grace from which this new life issues. (Psa. 110:2)
14. Zion is the most established and sure place in the world.  No government, nation, refuge, or stronghold of this age can compete with it. (Isa. 29:8; Dan. 2: 33-44)
15. Zion has a king who reigns forever in a kingdom which extends to all generations.  He is alive in God’s sons.  (Rom 8:29; Heb. 2: 6-13)
16. Zion is known, not traced out with a boundary.  Zion is experienced.  Zion is a place of being in God.  Zion is the Most Holy Place of the Tabernacle of Moses with all its truths.  Zion is a present reality for those who walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh or “as children under the elements of the world.” (Gal. 4:3))  Zion is spreading without observation throughout the earth, yet is being readied to rule over all.  Zion is the Government of God in the earth!  Zion is a Kingdom people!
17. Zion, generally speaking is the church,  specifically, Zion is the overcomer in the church.  The Zion Company is the man-child out of the Woman. (Rev. 12: 1-6) and is also seen in the 144,00 (Rev. 14: 1-8).  Zion is the Judah and the Joseph Company, the Army of Joe 2, and the Priesthood after the order of Melchisedec.  Zion is a governmental company of full-grown sons who have been apprehended unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.  Those in Zion are under the full and complete Lordship of Jesus Christ!  (Heb. 12: 22-24) “But you have come unto Mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels.”

Exodus 15: 18-19:  The Lord shall reign for ever and ever.  For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the Lord brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.

The song ends as it began with the Lord.  He is Sovereign. 

Isaiah 25: 6-11:  And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of morrow, of wines on the lees well refined.  And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people and the veil that is spread over all nations.  He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shell he take away from off all the earth; for the Lord has spoken it. And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our god; we have waited for him, and he will save us; this is the Lord;’ we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.  For in this mountain shall the hand of the Lord be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill…and he shall bring down their pride…”

Carolyn Sissom, Pastor

Eastgate Ministries, Inc.

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Scripture from K.J.V.

  Comments are my own with text from Principles of Present Truth by:  Kelly Varner