SONG OF MOSES LATTER DAY SERIES – NUMBER 1
June 27, 2010
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The song of Moses, in Chapter 32 of Deuteronomy, and the introduction to it in Chapter 31, is an outline of the future historical events that are ahead for God’s chosen people, the nation of Israel, from the time
of the death of Moses until the Second Advent of their Messiah, the Son of God, Jesus Christ. The song of Moses carries us unto “the latter days” of this present Gentile age.
Deuteronomy 31:15,16 – And the Lord appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle. [16] And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
After many years of failing to properly observe all the ordinances under the covenant of the law, God sent his messenger John ahead of the messenger of the covenant, the Messiah, to announce the Christ had arrived to fulfill the covenant that only he could perfectly keep as a man.
Malachi 3:1 – Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
But King Herod beheaded Messiah’s messenger, and the Israelites rejected the messenger of the covenant, King Messiah. Historical Israel has paid a terrible price for not letting their Messiah gather them together, having been cut off spiritually, when
their temple was declared to be spiritually desolate just before they crucified him, and then being told it would remain spiritually desolate until he returned to be accepted as the one they rejected.
Matthew 23:37-39 – O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! [38] Behold, your house is left unto
you desolate. [39] For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Because they rejected their Messiah, the only begotten Son of God, the messenger of his covenant, God forsook them, and the historical record of some 1978 years has, is, and will continue to be fulfilled in the many evils that have befallen them as a nation. Even today, among many Jews, there is always the question, “Why has the God of Israel allowed all these terrible things to come upon us, why can we find no peace, why has our God forsaken us?”
Deuteronomy 31:17 – Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day.
Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
For hundreds of years Israel was a disjointed skeleton, scattered across the surface of the earth, like spiritually dead, dry bones, in a great valley. They have been the most persecuted and despised people on this planet for some 1940 years, with
some six million having been murdered in the Nazi holocaust. And, even now, they have known no peace for the 62 years they have been a recognized nation. The evil that has befallen then in the “latter days” of this age, from 1936 to the present, has been the most intense.
It has been as Moses said it would be in the “latter days.”
Deuteronomy 31:29 – For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of
the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
Never, in the history of God’s dealings with Israel, have they been spiritually further away from him than at the present time.
They have long since stopped trusting in their God to deliver and restore them, and they are far removed from placing their faith in their true Messiah, Jesus Christ. They are trusting in a security wall, their own military might, and the most powerful nation on the earth, the United States, to deliver them from their many enemies.
The most intense time of suffering for Israel is still future, of that I am certain, and I am of the opinion it will begin before 2015. Israel will be driven into the Negev wilderness by its many enemies, two-thirds of its population will perish, Jerusalem will fall, and one-third will make it into the Negev, where they will remain for 1260 days.
Revelation 12:6 – And the wom an fled into the wilderness, where she h
ath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Zechariah 13:8 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
Zechariah 14:1,2 – Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
[2] For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and
the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
The residue (remnant) of the Jews who do escape will not be cut off from the city of Jerusalem forever, but will be brought back from the Negev from the Negev in victory by their Messiah following their 1260 day confinement there.
And he will be their God, and they his people, for all eternity.
Zechariah 13:9 – And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
Matthew 23:38,39 – Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. [39] For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
The horrible period of time of Jacob’s trouble will be ended when the Messiah comes to end the battle of Armageddon.
Jeremiah 30:7-9 – Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. [8] For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him: [9] But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.