Eyes 2 Jesus

Spiritual Headship

There are various forms of a demographic that regularly circulates the internet, of the "umbrella of authority." It will show that God is the top, as the biggest umbrella, and the husband is under that covering, wherein the husband has an umbrella, and under his authority and covering is the wife, and wherein the wife has an umbrella, and her children are under her. This teaching originated from a possible cult leader who has been accused of allegedly sexually abusing many girls under his "authority," because they were entrusted to him, and they were told they had to do what he said. Whether abused by this man, or men like him, women don't speak out, because they are taught that the Scriptures say:

"Let your women keep silence in the churches:”
and
"But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence."

These Scriptures are from 1 Corinthians chapter 14 and 1 Timothy chapter 2 in the King James Bible. Many of the women and girls in this situation and situations just like this in churches all over the world, but especially in the Southern United States, keep silent and endure the abuse, because they've been taught that the above Scriptures mean that they have to be quiet, and they can't tell their predator abuser "no," because that could be seen as having "authority over the man," which they are taught is a sin.

Some of these abused women and girls go to their leading pastors about what happened to them, seeking help, and the leading pastor quotes the following to them from the Bible:

"If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you. But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die. But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter: For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her." -Deuteronomy 22:23-27 KJV

The pastor or church elder will then ask the woman or female child if she "cried out." Of course, she says "no," and then she is put under church discipline for being a "temptress" to that "poor man," and not "crying out" during that man's "moment of weakness." The man usually gets very little to no church discipline.

Meanwhile, the woman or girl is left confused, wondering how in the world she "tempted" that "godly man" to violate her, and wondering how she could have "cried out," because if she did, she'd be put under church discipline for breaking "but I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence" from the KJV 1 Timothy 2:12. There is NO way for the abused woman or girl to "win" in this situation. They will always be the one who was somehow "in the wrong."

Does this seem farfetched to you? If so, count yourself lucky that you haven't come across this very common occurrence.

Let's straighten up these misused and abused Scriptures. The quote from Deuteronomy 22 clearly states that BOTH the man, and the willingly participating woman in the act were to be punished, not just the woman. Second, if they are going to follow this Scripture, then both that man, and that woman or girl should have received the death penalty. Third, don't forget that the woman in the above scripture was engaged. Was the woman or girl who was abused engaged to someone at the time of the abuse?

Why doesn't the church follow the mandate of Deuteronomy 22:23-27 today, in stoning people? Because that was a cultural law at the time, and is no longer culturally significant for our time, nor does it fit under the New Covenant, as Jesus cancelled the Law for us:

"He {Jesus} canceled the detailed rules of the Law so that he could create one new person out of the two groups, making peace." -Ephesians 2:15 CEB

As for the 1 Corinthians 14 passage that says that women are to be "silent" in church, verses 34 and 35, the "silence scriptures," was Paul QUOTING a teaching by Cato the Elder, which the Corinthian church was trying to bring into the church. After quoting this in verses 34 and 35, Paul goes on to REFUTE it, and teach that instead, women are just as much allowed to speak in church as men are. The Montgomery Translation properly shows Paul quoting someone else, and then refuting what he quoted:

~~"In your congregation" you write, "and in all the churches of the saints, let the women keep silence in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak. On the contrary let them be subordinate as also said the law. And if they want to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to speak in church." What! Was it from you that the Word of God went forth, or to you only did it come? ... So, my brothers and sisters, desire the g i f t of prophecy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.~~ - 1 Cor. 14:34-35 and 39 updated Montgomery Translation

Note: "the law" in the above scripture was referring to an old cultural law called the Opian Law. It was not referring to any law in the Bible.

Recall the 'women be silent in church' Scripture we are looking at was in Corinth. There was a woman church leader of a Corinthian church that Paul commends! Her name was Phoebe, and she was a minister and leader of the church in Cenchrea, which was a port of CORINTH.

"And I commend you to Phoebe our sister -- being a minister of the church that [is] in Cenchrea -- that you may receive her in the Lord, as does become saints, and may assist her in whatever matter she may have need of you -- for she also became a leader of many, and of myself." -Romans 16:1-2 rYLT

Why would Paul tell the church in Corinth that women aren't allowed to speak in church, and yet he commends a woman preacher and church leader right there in Romans 16? Paul was quoting Cato the Elder, and then correcting it. He was advocating FOR women speaking in the church, not against it!

What about 1 Timothy 2:12? First off, in the Greek, the word that means "authority" is NOT in 1 Timothy 2:12. 1 Timothy 2:12 has the Greek word 'authenteo,' which means murder, or in this case, spiritual murder. Second, the word translated as 'quiet' or 'silent,' is NOT the Greek word that means cessation of verbal speech. The word literally means to be peaceful, or calm. This is such a hard verse to translate into English, that if you look in different Bible translations, you'll see it translated various ways, such as the following:

1 TIMOTHY 2:12 IN VARIOUS TRANSLATIONS

I don’t allow a wife to teach or to control her husband. Instead, she should be a quiet listener. CEB

Moreover, in the area of teaching, I am not allowing a woman to instigate conflict toward a man. Instead, she is to remain calm. ISV

I don’t advocate that the newly converted women be the teachers in the church, assuming authority over the men, but to live in peace. TPT

I'm not saying that women should teach men, or try to dictate to them; rather, that they should be left undisturbed. N.T. Wright Translation

I do not permit a woman to teach that she is the originator of man, rather she is not to cause a disturbance. REV

This verse cannot be saying that women aren't allowed to be preachers or church leaders, and are not to teach men, because Paul commended Phoebe for being a minister of a church, for being a leader, and even for leading him himself - a man.

Further, 1 and 2 Timothy was written to Timothy for instructions when he was leading the church in Ephesus. In Acts chapter 18, while in Ephesus, the woman Priscilla taught the man Apollos. Some would say "yes, but her husband was with her." He sure was, but her name is mentioned first, and that means SHE was the more prominent teacher, not him. This is called "Order of Prominence." In the Bible, when 2 or more people or groups are mentioned, unless context dictates differently, the more prominent one is mentioned first. If women aren't allowed to teach men, and must be "silent," then why was it shown as a good thing in the Scriptures that Priscilla was teaching a man, and it was IN EPHESUS, where 1 Timothy 2:12 was written to?

Further, the woman Priscilla went on to pastor a church, as we read about in Romans 16:3-5 and 1 Corinthians 16:19.

What of 1 Timothy 2:12, then? Well, in Ephesus, where this was written to, there was a HUGE temple to the false goddess Artemis, and women were the priests in the Artemis temple. Paul didn't want Artemis priest women to teach Artemis worship in the Christian church. Instead, they were to calmly listen to the teachings of Christianity, so that they could learn the truth. This verse is about not bringing FALSE TEACHINGS into the church. Other places in both 1 and 2 Timothy mention men who were also bringing false teachings into the church. The whole theme of 1 and 2 Timothy was that of purging and preventing false teachings in the church.

An example of a false teacher would be the female Pastor Jezebel from Revelation chapter 2. She was not reprimanded for preaching to the church, but instead she was reprimanded for WHAT she was teaching, as she was bringing false teachings into the church. She is to be contrasted with the godly woman pastor named Kyria, of whom the book of 2 John is addressed to. (Kyria's children were her congregants, just as Jezebel's children were her congregants, just as people who followed Paul's teachings, Paul referred to as his children.) Take a look at Pastor Kyria, a godly woman pastor:

"The Elder to the choice Kyria, and to her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those having known the truth" -2 John 1:1 YLT

"To: That dear woman Cyria, one of God’s very own, and to her children whom I love so much, as does everyone else in the church." -2 John 1:1 TLB

What about the Scriptures that supposedly specifically goes into headship and authority? 1 Corinthians 11:3 says:

"But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of Christ." -1 Corinthians 11:3 NRSVue

There's no mention of "authority" in this verse, but we'll get to the verse that does mention "authority" momentarily. Meanwhile, let's look at the word "head." "Head" here is being used symbolically, as we recognize. What does it symbolize, though? If you said "authority" or "leadership," you are gravely mistaken. Yes, it means this in our modern English, but in the Greek, "head" - Greek - kephale - didn't take on the common meaning of "authority" until about 300 years after Paul. At the time Paul was writing this, "head" meant "source," "beginning," or "origination."

Is the above verse then saying that men are the origin of women? NO! Look again. It says "the man is the head of the woman." This is a specific man and a specific woman - not all men and women. This is referring to another origination - Adam and Eve. Adam was "the man," and Eve was "the woman." Adam was the source of Eve, because Eve was made from Adam's DNA (side). Adam is "the man," and Eve is "the woman." Keep reading, and we see it then changes to "any man," and "any woman," no longer referring to Adam and Eve. Verses 4-9 are Paul Quoting what the Corinthians told him in a previous letter they sent to him. Paul gives his response after these verses. The Corinthians thought that since Adam came before Eve, and Eve came out of Adam, that men should have authority over women, and women should have men's authority as their covering.

Paul corrects them in verse 10, where he says:

"It is for this reason that a woman ought to have authority over her own head, because of the angels." -1 Corinthians 11:10 NIV, 2011

This verse is the only place in this whole chapter where we get the word "authority," and notice this verse teaches us that a woman's headcovering is her having "authority over her own head." It is NOT any man having authority over her. She has authority over her own head. And why? Because of the angels. Why doesn't Paul expound on this thing about angels? Because he just mentioned angels a little bit ago in this same letter. Take a look:

"Do you not know that we are to judge angels, to say nothing of ordinary matters?" -1 Corinthians 6:3

Women and men will equally be judging angels when the time comes. Therefore, Paul reminds us of this in 1Corinthians 11:10, where he says women have authority over their own heads, because they will be judging angels. If women will have authority to judge angels, then surely they also have authority over themselves!

As for the Corinthian church thinking that since Eve came out of Adam, men should have authority over women, Paul quickly corrects that false assumption in verses 11 and 12:

"Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man or man independent of woman. For just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman, but all things come from God." -1 Corinthians 11:11-12 NRSVue

Paul reminds them that only one woman came from one man, once, but since then, every single man came from a woman. Therefore, if one wants to argue that the head - kephale - source should be in charge, then women should have full authority over all men, because every man since after Adam, came through a woman, thus women are literally the source - kephale - of men. This means if we want to play the headship game, women are literally the head of men.

Paul mentions head - source again in Ephesians chapter 5. Paul also uses the word "subject." Paul defines the type of subjection in Ephesians 5:21, where it says:

"being subject to one another out of reverence for Christ." -Ephesians 5:21 NRSVue

What type of subjection? -Mutual subjection to one another. The next verse says in most Bible translations the following:

"Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord"

Yet, the most reliable manuscripts of the Bible do not have the word "subject" in this verse! This verse is more accurately translated in the Tree of Life Version:

"wives to your own husbands as to the Lord." - Ephesians 5:22 TLV

The verb "be subject" is to be carried over into verse 22, as defined by verse 21. This means verses 22-24 are telling wives how to be subject to their husbands, and verses 25-31 are telling husbands how to be subject to their wives. They are to give of themselves for them, and to serve them, as Christ did the church, during His earthly ministry.

The household code of Colossians chapter 3 is an abbreviation of this one in Ephesians 5. Both the churches in Colossae and Ephesus received both letters of Colossians and Ephesians. It was a given that the mutual subjection of Ephesians 5:21 was also for the household code in Colossians chapter 3.

As for the household code in 1 Peter chapter 3, Sarah didn't actually obey Abraham, but Abraham obeyed Sarah! This is clear if you read the Genesis account. The Greek word translated as "obeyed" in 1 Peter 3:6 also can be translated as "answered," as translated in other places in many Bible versions. The word translated as "Lord" in this verse by some Bible translations is also translated as "sir," in other places in the Bible in many Bible versions. Thus, this could be translated as "thus Sarah answered Abraham and called him sir." Now THIS actually matches the Genesis 18:12 account!

1 Peter 3:7 starts with the word "likewise," or the phrase "in the same manner," or similar, depending on which Bible version you are reading. This word or phrase is supposed to call us back to the main verb or topic at hand, which in this portion of the chapter was the word "submit" Therefore, some Bible translations carry the verb over to help it make more sense in the English. The CEB Bible does an excellent job of this, and translates 1 Peter 3:7 as thus:

"Husbands, likewise, submit by living with your wife in ways that honor her, knowing that she is the weaker partner. Honor her all the more, as she is also a coheir of the gracious care of life. Do this so that your prayers won’t be hindered." -1 Peter 3:7 CEB

Now back to "head." In Ephesians 5:22, we saw that the word "submit" isn't actually there in the Greek, but was carried over from verse 21, where "submit" was defined as mutual submission. Verse 23 says:

"for the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior." -Ephesians 5:23 NRSVue

Notice this verse specifically says "the husband," and "the wife," while later in this chapter, it will change to husbands and wives in the plural. This is because verse 23 is referring to Adam and Eve, just like 1 Corinthians 11:3 was. The husband - Adam, is the head - source of the wife - Eve, just as Christ is the head - source of the church. This verse is not talking about authority, but about source, or origination. This is comparing how Eve came from Adam to how the church came from Christ.

Verse 24 says:

"Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands." -Ephesians 5:24 NRSVue

This verse sounds intense, but not if we understand what "subject" means. The Greek word behind what is translated as "subject" has two meanings. It has a military meaning, and a non-military meaning. The military meaning means to arrange troop divisions under a leader. The marriage is not a military, so we use the non-military definition, which means to cooperate with someone, be devoted to someone, or to support someone.

We just saw in verse 23 that Christ is the source of the church, symbolized as a head, and that the church is the body. Your physical body supports your head. Just as the body supports the head, wives are to support their husbands, and as per verse 21, so also husbands are to support their wives. Some Bible translations translate this verse in a more accurate, understandable way, such as the following:

"In the same way the church is devoted to Christ, let the wives be devoted to their husbands in everything." -Ephesians 5:23 TPT

Many churches and well-meaning people think that the Bible teaches that the husband is the spiritual head of the wife, and perhaps even the head of the home. However, as you've seen from the above, no Scriptures teach that. Ephesians 5:23 is teaching that the original husband, Adam was the source for the original wife, Eve, as an example of how Christ is the originator of the church.

Therefore, both wife and husband have the same head - Christ, and Christ is God, and God created all. God is our source/originator:

"For just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman, but all things come from God." -1 Corinthians 11:12 NRSVue

Eve came from Adam, but since then, all men come through women, but all things - women and men, come from God. God is our source, thus God is our spiritual head - not any human being.

The Song of Moses and the Song of the Lamb, and WHY they are VERY IMPORTANT

Via these two songs and other Scriptures shared, you will find answers to question such as: Who is the Prince of Persia? What is the Divine Council mentioned in Psalm 82:1 (NRSVue)? How quickly did the event at the Tower of Babel occur? What or who is the Rock in Matthew 16:13-18 that Jesus would build His church on?

Who Sings the Songs?

Revelation 15:3a says:

And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb -NRSVue

If you read that chapter, you see that the "they" singing those two songs are those who conquered the beast, image, and number. The ones singing the two songs are martyred tribulation Christians. Why are they singing these two songs, and why are they singing them at this specific point in the tribulation?

We see they are singing these two songs right before the seven angels come forth with the seven bowls of God's wrath to be unleashed. The seven bowls of wrath comprise the second half of the tribulation. What is happening in Revelation before these two songs are sung? We see the rapture occurring at the seventh trumpet, and likely during the Jewish Festival of Trumpets. We see it from different views throughout chapters 11-14. In chapter 11, verse 15, we see the rapture event begins with:

Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will reign forever and ever.” - NRSVue

Verses 11-15 fulfill the Mystery mentioned in Chapter 10 verse 7, and also mentioned in 1 Corinthians 15:51-52.

The Seventh Trumpet ushers in the beginning of Christ taking His Kingdom back from the Enemy of Darkness. The beginning of this campaign is the rapture of the saints, followed by the martyred Christian saints singing these two songs in heaven, and then the full wrath of God is unleashed on the earth for the second half of the tribulation. It's possible that the Christians singing these two songs in heaven are Jews, as Jews are commanded in the Old Testament to memorize the Song of Moses.

The Song of the Lamb

The Song of Moses is recorded for us in Deuteronomy chapter 32. The Song of the Lamb, however, we get to learn when we read of these martyred Christians singing it. The Song of the Lamb is recorded in Revelation 15:3b-4, and is as follows:

“Great and amazing are your deeds,
    Lord God the Almighty!
Just and true are your ways,
    King of the nations!
⁴Lord, who will not fear
    and glorify your name?
For you alone are holy.
    All nations will come
    and worship before you,
for your judgments have been revealed.” -NRSVue

The song starts with praise, and a title for God. He is called "Almighty." This is significant, as you'll see in the Song of Moses. The Greek word translated "Almighty" here is pantokratōr, which literally means The Ruler of the Universe. God is being specified as not just any god, but as THE Ruler of ALL.

The song then goes on to emphasize that God's ways are just and true. We already know that. Is this just being sung as praise, or is it connected to his being The Ruler of the Universe? The connection is there, and you'll see it in the Song of Moses. God isn't just a god over a specific nation. He is the Creator God of all.

Verse 4 tells of God's name. His name is the tetragrammaton YHWH, which we usually pronounce as Yahweh, but adding in the Hebrew I Am, it may be pronounced Yahuah. Yahweh literally means "The Self-Existent One." Verse 4 thus could be: 'Lord, who will not revere and glorify you - The Self Existent One." The emphasis here is that Yahweh was not created. He is the One who did the creating, thus he is the Almighty - The Ruler of the Universe.

This song contains a prophecy, where it says in verse 4 that "all nations will come and worship before you." We see this expounded further in the ending chapters of Revelation. The fact that this Song says "King of the nations," (vs 3) and "All nations will come and worship" is significant. This goes with why God is referred to as The Ruler of the Universe.

As you are about to see, The Song of the Lamb is an abbreviated version of the Song of Moses.

Why 'Ruler of the Universe,' and "nations?" This is because The Song of the Lamb is Reversing the Tower of Babel Incident.

Genesis 11:7-8 says:

Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.” ⁸So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. -NRSVue

The Tower of Babel incident is when people were divided up into nations, and immediately physically moved by God all over the globe to different continents with different languages. This is why, for example, we have the same false gods, such as the goddess Artemis, all over the world, but with different names, such as Diana, Agrotera, Hecate, the goddess of Wicca, and much more.

What most fail to recognize in the above verses, is that it says in verse 7 'Let us go down and confuse their language.' Who is this "us?" This is the Divine Council. If you've never heard of this, or you think the Divine Council isn't Scriptural, then please keep reading, as you'll soon see that the Divine Council is VERY real, and 100% relevant to The Song of the Lamb and The Song of Moses.

The Song of the Lamb emphasized God the Almighty - The Ruler of the Universe, and the King of Nations, because after the tower of Babel, members from God's Divine Council became judges over certain nations. Hang tight, as I'll show you this in the Bible. In fact, one of the places this is laid out happens to be in The Song of Moses.

The Song of the Lamb is the undoing of the Tower of Babel incident. It is the bringing back together of all nations for all to worship The Ruler of the Universe.

We now move on to a study of The Song of Moses, which will also contain many Scripture to back what I just claimed about The Song of the Lamb...

The Song of Moses

The Song of Moses is recorded in Deuteronomy chapter 32: verses 1-43. Chapter 31 mentions this song, and states in verse 21:

And when many terrible troubles come upon them, this song will confront them as a witness because it will not be lost from the mouths of their descendants. For I know what they are inclined to do even now, before I have brought them into the land that I promised them on oath.” -NRSVue

The Israelites were taught The Song of Moses, were to memorize it, and to teach it to their children. Then, when they witness the prophecies in that song, they will recall the lessons of that song. This is likely why the Song of Moses is a song, and not just a writing. Songs are easier to memorize. In the Hebrew, this probably had a specific rhythm and meter, which made it easier to memorize.

They were to memorize this song before they enter the Promised Land, and now we Christians, the people of God under the New Covenant, should know the Song of Moses before we enter the Ultimate Promised Land - New Jerusalem:

And in the spirit he carried me away to a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God. -Revelation 21:10 NRSVue

Please read The Song of Moses below in its entirety, and then we will study it:

“Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak;
    let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
²May my teaching drop like the rain,
    my speech condense like the dew,
like gentle rain on grass,
    like showers on new growth.
³For I will proclaim the name of the Lord,
    ascribe greatness to our God!

⁴The Rock, his work is perfect,
    and all his ways are just.
A faithful God, without deceit,
    just and upright is he;
⁵yet his degenerate children have dealt falsely with him,
    a perverse and crooked generation.
⁶Do you thus repay the Lord,
    O foolish and senseless people?
Is not he your father who created you,
    who made you and established you?
⁷Remember the days of old;
    consider the years long past;
ask your father, and he will inform you,
    your elders, and they will tell you.
⁸When the Most High apportioned the nations,
    when he divided humankind,
he fixed the boundaries of the peoples
    according to the number of the gods;
⁹the Lord’s own portion was his people,
    Jacob his allotted share.

¹⁰He sustained him in a desert land,
    in a howling wilderness waste;
he shielded him, cared for him,
    guarded him as the apple of his eye.
¹¹As an eagle stirs up its nest
    and hovers over its young,
as it spreads its wings, takes them up,
    and bears them aloft on its pinions,
¹²the Lord alone guided him;
    no foreign god was with him.
¹³He set him atop the heights of the land
    and fed him with produce of the field;
he nursed him with honey from the crags,
    with oil from flinty rock,
¹⁴curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,
    with fat of lambs and rams,
Bashan bulls and goats,
    together with the choicest wheat—
    you drank fine wine from the blood of grapes.
¹⁵Jacob ate his fill;
    Jeshurun grew fat and kicked.
    You grew fat, bloated, and gorged!
He abandoned God who made him
    and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
¹⁶They made him jealous with strange gods;
    with abhorrent things they provoked him.
¹⁷They sacrificed to demons, not God,
    to deities they had never known,
to new ones recently arrived,
    whom your ancestors had not feared.
¹⁸You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you;
    you forgot the God who gave you birth.

¹⁹The Lord saw it and was jealous;
    he spurned his sons and daughters.
²⁰He said, ‘I will hide my face from them;
    I will see what their end will be,
for they are a perverse generation,
    children in whom there is no faithfulness.
²¹They made me jealous with what is no god,
    provoked me with their idols.
So I will make them jealous with what is no people,
    provoke them with a foolish nation.
²²For a fire is kindled by my anger
    and burns to the depths of Sheol;
it devours the earth and its increase
    and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
²³I will heap disasters upon them,
    spend my arrows against them:
²⁴wasting hunger,
    burning consumption,
    bitter pestilence.
The teeth of beasts I will send against them,
    with venom of things crawling in the dust.
²⁵In the street the sword shall bereave,
    and in the chambers terror
for young man and woman alike,
    nursing child and old gray head.
²⁶I said, “I will make an end of them
    and blot out the memory of them from humankind,”
²⁷but I feared provocation by the enemy,
    for their adversaries might misunderstand
and say, “Our hand is triumphant;
    it was not the Lord who did all this.” ’

²⁸They are a nation void of sense;
    there is no understanding in them.
²⁹If they were wise, they would understand this;
    they would discern what their end would be.
³⁰How could one have routed a thousand
    and two put a myriad to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
    the Lord had given them up?
³¹Indeed, their rock is not like our Rock;
    our enemies are fools.
³²Their vine comes from the vinestock of Sodom,
    from the vineyards of Gomorrah;
their grapes are grapes of poison;
    their clusters are bitter;
³³their wine is the poison of serpents,
    the cruel venom of asps.

³⁴Is not this laid up in store with me,
    sealed up in my treasuries,
³⁵for the day of vengeance and recompense,
    for the time when their foot shall slip?
Because the day of their calamity is at hand;
    their doom comes swiftly.

³⁶Indeed, the Lord will vindicate his people,
    have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone,
    neither bond nor free remaining.
³⁷Then he will say, ‘Where are their gods,
    the rock in which they took refuge,
³⁸who ate the fat of their sacrifices
    and drank the wine of their libations?
Let them rise up and help you;
    let them be your protection!

³⁹See now that I, even I, am he;
    there is no god besides me.
I kill, and I make alive;
    I wound, and I heal;
    and no one can deliver from my hand.
⁴⁰For I lift up my hand to heaven
    and swear, As I live forever,
⁴¹when I whet my flashing sword
    and my hand takes hold on judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
    and will repay those who hate me.
⁴²I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
    and my sword shall devour flesh—
with the blood of the slain and the captives,
    from the long-haired enemy.’

43 Praise, O heavens, his people;
    worship him, all you gods!
For he will avenge the blood of his children
    and take vengeance on his adversaries;
he will repay those who hate him
    and cleanse the land for his people.”  
 -Deuteronomy 32:1-43 NRSVue
Verse 1 tells us who this song is to.  It's to those in the heavens and to those on the earth.  This could be poetic hyperbole, but given the context of the Song of the Lamb and this Song of Moses, it here is literal.  This song is to angels and humans.  In using the word "angel" in this treatise, I will be referring to not just God's supernatural messengers, but also to his divine council and other spiritual beings God made.
In verse 3 it says "I will proclaim the name of the LORD."  LORD (in all caps) is YHWH in the Hebrew.  In the Bible, most names have meanings, and that is also true of Yahweh, which means The Self-Existent One.  This Song of Moses proclaims that God is THE God - the Creator, the One who made us, the Self-Existent One, above Whom there is no higher power.
Verse 3 has the word "Rock," with a capital R.  We also see "rock" in this song with lower case r.  Capital R Rock is defined in this song as being God, while lower case r rock is defined as the shaky foundation of other religions. 
The Song of Moses is connected to many things in the New Testament, and one of the ways it is connected is via the capital R Rock.  God is the Rock of our Salvation, as seen in verse 15. Rock means both the beginning/source, and the foundation.  This is why Jesus is called our Cornerstone in the New Testament. The cornerstone is the first rock laid out in the foundation of a building.
Locality and spiritual problems mentioned later in the The Song of Moses tie the Rock with the Rock of Matthew 16:13-18:
Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”  14 And they said, “Some say John the Baptist but others Elijah and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”  15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”  16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”  17 And
 Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and
 blood has not revealed this to you but my Father in heaven.  18 And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.  -NRSVue 
The first connection we see is the location: Caesarea Philippi, which was located on a large bedrock, in front of the Cave of Pan, also known as the Gates of Hell, or Gates of Hades.  This evil cave was at the foot of Mount Hermon, where the book of 1 Enoch tells us the fallen angels of Genesis 6:1-4 had their meeting place.  Caesarea Philippi was in the area of Bashan.  The Song of Moses mentions Bashan in verse 14.
After Peter makes his profession to Jesus, professing that He is the Messiah, the Son of the Living God, Jesus says "flesh and blood has not revealed this to you but my Father in heaven."  Have you ever noticed that MANY people say they are Christians, but they don't bear Christian fruits?  Jesus says in the gospels, 'by their fruits you shall know them.'  Galatians chapter 5, verses 19-25 lists examples of works of the flesh, versus fruits of the [Holy] Spirit [in a true Christian].  These faux Christians claim they are saved, because they said a cutesy little prayer, but that's it.  Their life didn't change.  They remained slaves to sin (Romans 6:16).
What's different about Christians who really become Christians, like Peter eventually did?  It was 'revealed to them by God.'  Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount to 'seek, and you will find, knock, and the door will be opened.'  The Scriptures in both Old and New Testaments repeatedly say that God looks at our hearts.  If we are really seeking God and His ways, then he will draw us to Him, as He did with Peter.  The Song of Moses will go into following God, versus not following God, and some of the spiritual implications of both.
Verse 18 in the above Matthew 16 does a play on words.  If you've done much study of the Holy Bible in the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, then you've seen that God does a LOT of word play like this throughout the Bible.  This is part of what makes reading the Scriptures in the original languages such a blessing.  We see that our God has a great sense of humor, as some of the word play is downright hilarious.
In verse 18, Jesus is telling Peter that just as his name means rock, he has now received salvation upon the Rock of Salvation (Jesus), and also that the literal large rock they were standing on would have a church built there, of which the Gates of Hades, the cave in which they were standing right in front of, would not prevail against it.
Ancient ruins show there indeed was a church built on that very rock, and that church was based on the Rock of Salvation - Jesus Christ, who is God in the flesh.  Satan's current rule of this world cannot and will not prevail against the Church - The Body of Christ on the earth.
We now return to the Song of Moses. Take a look at verses 4b-7.  They emphasize God's loyalty to His people, but contrast the disloyalty of them to Him.  Verse 6 points out that God is the Creator.  He made them.  He made us.  He made all.  This keeps being emphasized, and for good reason.  As we see later in The Song of Moses, God's people turn from him, and turn to lower case g gods.  Verses 8 and 9 tell us where these "gods" originated.  Verses 8 and 9 are the key verses to The Song of Moses, and to fully understanding The Song of the Lamb, for they refer to the Tower of Babel incident.  For this reason, it is worth quoting those two verses again below:
When the Most High apportioned the nations,
    when he divided humankind,
he fixed the boundaries of the peoples
    according to the number of the gods;
9 the Lord’s own portion was his people,
    Jacob his allotted share.  - Deuteronomy 32:8-9NRSVue 
First, notice the title given for God - "Most High."  Remember in The Song of the Lamb, God's title was "Almighty," which means Ruler of the Universe.  Here, "Most High" is the Hebrew equivalent.  The Hebrew for Most High is ʿelyôn, which literally means "The God above all gods."
The above tells us that The God Above all gods divided the humans, so that their boundaries of where they were divided were fixed "according to the number of the gods."  God set members of His Divine Council (supporting scriptures to follow) over specific nations as judges of those nations. As for Jacob, which is Israel, God set Himself as their Judge.
 Recall at the Tower of Babel incident, Genesis 11:7-8 says:
Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”  8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.  -NRSVue
"Us" is the Divine Council.  Now we see in The Song of Moses that not only did the Divine Council participate with God in this dividing of the nations, but that Divine Council members were assigned nations to be judges of.
Psalm 58:1-2 goes into this as well:
Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods?
    Do you judge people fairly?
2 No, in your hearts you devise wrongs;
    your hands deal out violence on earth.  -NRSVue
We see a problem. These Divine Council members - gods, were to judge the nations righteously, and point them to God.  Instead, they used their God-given free-will to sin, just as humans do.  Instead, they devised wrongs and dealt out violence.
Take a look at Psalm 82:1-2:
 God has taken his place in the divine council;
    in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:
2 “How long will you judge unjustly
    and show partiality to the wicked?  -NRSVue
We see that God holds regular meetings with His Divine Council.  In fact, we see such meetings various times in the Bible, including in the first chapter of Job.  Notice that "divine council," gods (Hebrew: Elohim in the plural usage) and "judge" are used interchangeably in the above, and in other instances in the Scriptures referring to God's Divine Council.  
In the above Scripture passage, the Divine Council meeting is about the unjust and wicked judgement the Divine Council members are doling out to their assigned nations.  Rather than pointing their nations to Yahweh God - The God above all gods, the Ruler of the Universe, they are directing their people towards idolatry, worshiping Divine Council Members as gods, etc - as we'll see when we read further in The Song of Moses.
The Book of Daniel also makes reference to a Divine Council member/god/judge, where this member is referred to as a "prince" of their allotted nation: 
But the prince of the 
kingdom of Persia opposed me twenty-one days. So Michael, one of the 
chief princes, came to help me, and I left him there with the prince of 
the kingdom of Persia  -Daniel 10:13 NRSVue
Daniel had been in deep prayer, mourning, and fasting for weeks, begging God to reveal to him the understanding of a prophecy he had received.  Finally when a messenger from God - an angel, arrived, the angel explained in the above verse 13 why it took so long for him to get to Daniel.  The Divine Council member assigned to the nation of Persia tried to stop the angel from reaching Daniel.  The archangel Michael ("one of the chief princes") arrived to help that angel, and fought with the Divine Council Member assigned to Persia.
We see Michael fighting with bad angels on multiple occasions in the Bible, including being insinuated in Daniel 12:1a:
At that time Michael, the great prince, the protector of your people  -NRSVue 
And Revelation 12:7:
And war broke out in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon. The dragon and his angels fought back  -NRSVue 
As we now return to The Song of Moses, let us review verses 8-9, and notice The Most High is the God above gods, and the Divine Council members -gods are assigned their nations:
When the Most High apportioned the nations,
    when he divided humankind,
he fixed the boundaries of the peoples
    according to the number of the gods;
9 the Lord’s own portion was his people,
    Jacob his allotted share.  -NRSVue 
From this and the above Scriptures we just looked at, we also learned that not only is Jacob/Israel the portion that God took, but that He assigned the archangel Micheal as a protector over Israel.
Verse 10 has God calling Jacob/Israel "the apple of his eye."  In the Hebrew, it means "the pupil of his eye."  The pupil was considered the delicate part of the eye that required protection.  God calling Israel the pupil of His eye meant that He found Israel precious, and wanted to protect His people.
In verse 12 we see that Jacob/Israel was guided by God, and they didn't go for foreign gods.  The foreign gods were defined for us in verses 8-9.  The Israelites at this point were staying true to the God allotted to them, which is Yahweh, the God above all gods. 
The next few verses describe the blessings that the people of God received and lived by, because they followed the one true God.  Verse 14 lists something very interesting.  Verse 14 says:
curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,
    with fat of lambs and rams,
Bashan bulls and goats,
    together with the choicest wheat—
    you drank fine wine from the blood of grapes.  -NRSVue 
In listing the abundance of the people of God, because they were being true to God, and not going after the foreign gods, we see here in this verse a list of abundance, including: "fat of lambs and rams, Bashan bulls and goats."  Why does it say Bashan bulls, instead of just 'bulls?'  Recall our Rock connection of The Song of Moses with Matthew 16:13-18 that we looked at earlier.  Caesarea Philippi was in the Bashan land.  
The Bible has some interesting things to say about Bashan bulls.   Psalm 22:12-13 says:
Many bulls encircle me;
    strong bulls of Bashan surround me;
13 they open wide their mouths at me,
    like a ravening and roaring lion.  -NRSVue
This is the Psalm that Jesus referenced in the Gospels when He was on the cross, and He cried out part of the first verse of Psalm 22:
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?  -Psalm 22:1a NRSVue 
Bulls of Bashan were surrounding Jesus at His crucifixion.  Bashan is where Mount Hermon is, which is where the Cave of Pan is, known as The Gates of Hell/Hades.  Caesarea Philippi used to be called the city of Dan.  Have you ever noticed that the tribe of Dan is not mentioned even one time in the New Testament, but all of the other tribes of Israel are?
Dan refused to take their allotment of land given  them by God.  Instead, they wanted the land of Laish, which lay at the foot of Mount Hermon.  They attacked the peaceful, defenseless people of Laish, and forcefully took that land for themselves.  They set up an Micah's idol there, and became completely steeped in a foreign god.  In verse 12 of The Song of Moses, there was no foreign god with Dan or the other tribes, but Dan, along with eventually all the tribes, forsook the God of gods for foreign gods instead.
Another mention of the Bulls of Bashan is in Ezekiel 39:18:
You shall eat the 
flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth—of 
rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatted calves of 
Bashan.  -NRSVue 
"You" in the above are birds who are sent to eat the flesh of people and animals after a massive battle.  The birds are called to eat the flesh of people, rams, lambs, goats, and bulls of Bashan - "... of bulls, all of them fatted calves of Bashan."  A fatted calf of Bashan is a baby from a Bashan bull.  This means "all of them" - people and animals, were affected by the spiritual darkness of Bashan bulls - demons or demonic forces.
Bulls of Bashan represent demons, demon possessed people, and people who go after foreign gods and thus are directed or somewhat steered by demonic forces.  While Bulls of Bashan mocked Jesus at His crucifixion, we see that these evil entities can be overcome, as they are in the above Scripture.
Bulls and calves picture often in the Bible's depiction of God's people forsaking Him, and going after foreign gods.  The Song of Moses in verses 16 and 17 allude to the time Israel made a golden calf to worship, but also built by it an altar to Yahweh. While Moses was away, they worshipped both the calf and Yahweh together.  We'll see this in more detail when we study verses 16 and 17 in Deuteronomy 32.
First we see in verse 15 that the people of God became so comfortable in their God-given prosperity, that they no longer gave glory to God for all He provided, but rather they gave glory elsewhere - probably to themselves, and maybe to foreign gods.  This verse tells us they "scoffed at the Rock of his Salvation." - "his" being Jacob - the people of God.  They scoffed at the God of gods, and no longer looked to Him as the Author of their salvation.  Instead, they let the influence of the Bulls of Bashan speak to their spirits.
Verses 16 and 17 of The Song of Moses here in Deuteronomy 32 says:
They made him jealous with strange gods;
    with abhorrent things they provoked him.
17 They sacrificed to demons, not God,
    to deities they had never known,
to new ones recently arrived,
    whom your ancestors had not feared.  -NRSVue 
The NRSVue translation is a bit tricky here in verse 17, but the Wycliffe has it well-done.  Verse 17 in the Wycliffe says:
They offered to fiends, or to devils, and not to God, to gods which they knew not, to new gods which they discovered in their searching, that their fathers did not worship. 
The people of God ceased to be God's people, because they instead provoked the God of gods to jealousy by going after "strange gods."  These are gods that they found in searching.  These are gods that their ancestors did not worship.  Therefore these are "strange gods," or as verse 12 calls them - 'foreign gods.'
The word "demons" in the NRSVue verse 17 is the Hebrew word shedim.  This word occurs only twice in the Old Testament, and both are connected.  The other instance of shedim is in Psalm 106:35-38:
 but they mingled with the nations
    and learned to do as they did.
36 They served their idols,
    which became a snare to them.
37 They sacrificed their sons
    and their daughters to the demons;
38 they poured out innocent blood,
    the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
    and the land was polluted with blood.  -NRSVue
"Demons" in verse 37 is the only other instance of the Hebrew word shedim in the Old Testament.  These verses expound on The Song of Moses, where Jacob forsook God for foreign gods.   We see that these gods were demons, and behind the idols to those gods were demons.  Jacob forsook God, and all the abundance and blessings God gave, to go after gods Jacob's ancestors didn't know, and to start sacrificing their children to the idols of those gods.  In the above verses we see shedim - demons, being used interchangeably with idols.
Back to our Deuteronomy 32:16-17 verses, we see  shedim - demons, being used interchangeably with gods.  Therefore, we see that the fallen members of the Divine Council are also known as demons.  
Let us now go to a place in the New Testament that is quoting part of Deuteronomy 32:17 from the Song of Moses.  1 Corinthians 10:20-21 says:

No, I imply that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons. ²¹You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. -NRSVue

Here we see the New Testament Greek equivalent to the Hebrew shedim. The Greek for "demons" above is daimonion. These two verses are referring us back to the Song of Moses, where it quotes part of Deuteronomy 32:17 - 'they sacrifice to demons and not to God.'

1 Corinthians 10:20-21 was also referring to a specific event that happened with the Israelites in the Old Testament. 1 Corinthians 10:7 says:

Do not become idolaters as some of them did, as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.” -NRSVue

This is referring to Exodus chapter 32, where the Israelites got tired of waiting for Moses to return, so they built a golden calf, as well as an altar to Yahweh, and they worshipped both. 1 Corinthians 10:20-21 is answering the question of Is it okay to worship other gods along with Yahweh? or Is it okay to combine pagan religious things in with our worship of Yahweh? The answer given is no. It says You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. Why does it say that? Because it's referring to Deuteronomy 32:17, which also refers to Psalm 106:37 which confirm that behind idols and lower case g gods and all other religions are DEMONS. Why is God a jealous God? Because He doesn't want us giving our love and praise that belongs to Him to demons, instead.

This is serious. We see it happening over and over again in the Old Testament, and we see it being warned against in the New Testament, and we see it happening today, as prophesied in 1 Timothy 4:1-2:

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will renounce the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, ²through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared with a hot iron. -NRSVue

2 Timothy 4:3-4 expounds on this:

For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound teaching, but, having their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires ⁴and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths. -NRSVue

Whether these "myths" be ancient Greek Mythological Pantheon worship, which is recurring today, mixing pagan religious things with Christianity (such as Christmas and Easter) or patriarchalists using incorrect Bible translations to say women can't exercise all of the same gifts from the Holy Spirit that men can, false teachings are rife, and they are going to get worse. The originators of these false teachings are demons.

As a quick side note, some false teachings are derived from creating doctrines from incorrect translations of a few Bible verses. For example, the ESV translates 1 Timothy 2:12 wrong, which leads to abuse of women all over the world:

I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. - 1 Timothy 2:12 ESV

It is well-known that the whole ESV translation team were complimentarians, with not one egalitarian on the team. This will sway how they translate certain passages, which skew their view, as we see in their incorrect translation of the above verse.

Translations that translate 1 Timothy 2:12 more correctly are as follows:

I don’t allow a wife to teach or to control her husband. Instead, she should be a quiet listener. CEB

Moreover, in the area of teaching, I am not allowing a woman to instigate conflict toward a man. Instead, she is to remain calm. ISV

I don’t advocate that the newly converted women be the teachers in the church, assuming authority over the men, but to live in peace. TPT

I'm not saying that women should teach men, or try to dictate to them; rather, that they should be left undisturbed. N.T. Wright Translation

I do not permit a woman to teach that she is the originator of man, rather she is not to cause a disturbance. REV

Have you noticed a theme in all of the 1 and 2 Timothy scriptures I've quoted? It's all about false teachings in the church. That's literally the topic of both books. Timothy's church was in Ephesus, and in Ephesus at that time, women weren't allowed to learn. When they start becoming Christians and going to church, false teachers were trying to educate these unlearned women in things not of God. These unlearned women were causing a disturbance in the church, by asking unlearned questions, and some even trying to bring Artemis worship into the Christian church, as the Artemis temple was one of the ancient wonders of the world, and was right there in Ephesus. The women IN EPHESUS were not allowed to teach until after they LEARNED, first.

Another passage that is used to try to subjugate and shush half of the universal Church is 1 Corinthians 34-35:

the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. ³⁵If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church. -ESV

Whoops, the ESV, as well as many other translations forgot to put in the quotation marks! These verses are not Paul words! These are Paul quoting a teaching by Cato the Elder, as recorded by Livy, and wrongly taught by the Corinthians. Paul quotes this, and then he refutes it. Paul was actually standing up for women speaking in the church. Here's a proper translation - 1 Corinthians 14:33-36 and 39:

"In your congregation" you write, "and in all the churches of the saints, let the women keep silence in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak. On the contrary let them be subordinate as also said the law. And if they want to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to speak in church."
What! Was it from you that the Word of God went forth, or to you only did it come? ... So, my brothers and sisters, desire the gift of prophecy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues. - 1 Corinthians 14:33-36 and verse 39 Montgomery Translation

False teachings abound, and today they are used to drive us away from Jesus, who is THE Truth (John 14:6) and instead drive us to devour and bite one another, and to follow false teachings that empower demons.

For more information about women preaching in the church, please watch my documentary called "Do Only Men Go to Heaven?" It is available for free on YouTube and also linked in the sidebar of Eyes2Jesus.blogspot.com.

Continuing in our study of The Song of Moses, verse 18 emphasizes that God is the Rock, which means source and foundation, and that he bore Jacob; that he birthed Jacob. Jacob means the people of God. In the Old Testament, Jacob/Israel were those who were genetically Jewish, but also any other person of any other nationality that chose to join the Jews and follow the One True God. Again here, God is emphasizing that HE is the Creator, and the gods are not. The God of gods is the Creator of all.

Verse 19 says that Yahweh saw "it and was jealous." The antecedent to "it" is from verse 17a, where it says "They sacrificed to demons, not God, to deities they had never known." God clarifies the part that made Him jealous further in verse 21:

They made me jealous with what is no god,
provoked me with their idols.
So I will make them jealous with what is no people,
provoke them with a foolish nation. -NRSVue

The Wycliffe has this translated better and more accurately, where it says for verse 21:

They have stirred me to jealousy by worshiping what was not God, and they have moved me to vengeance with their vain idols; and so I shall stir them to jealousy, with those who be not a people, and I shall stir them to anger, with a nation of fools.

We see therefore that the reason God is jealous of His people "sacrificing to demons and not God" from verse 17, is that as per the Wycliffe verse 21, Jacob is no longer worshiping God, capital G. Israel has started worshiping gods, lowercase g, as in verse 17.

In the second half of verse 21, we see that God then decides to make His people jealous, but provoking them with a foolish nation. The House of Israel went into captivity to the Assyrians, and the House of Judah went into captivity to the Babylonians, which gave way to the Medes and Persians. During the time of the Medes and Persians, Jews were allowed to repair the temple of God in Jerusalem, but they were never fully independent, and then came the Greeks, and then the Romans that we see running things in the New Testament.

The People of God turned from God, so He turned His blessings from them.

How would this "make them jealous?" This would make Jacob jealous, because Jacob would see a contrast of the blessings the people of God had when they served God, and of the blessings being taken away, when they put their allegiance to the gods/demons/idols, instead. They longed for the good times they had when they were faithful to the Creator that created all.

Verse 22 has a double meaning. The fire burning to Sheol which even devours the earth is 1) hyperbolic poetry for God's anger at the Israelites turning from Him, but it is also 2) a literal prophecy yet to happen of the Great White Throne Judgement, where all will be destroyed and melted with fire:

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be destroyed with fire, and the earth and everything that is done on it will be disclosed. -2 Peter 3:10 NRSVue

Then I saw a great white throne and the one who sat on it; the earth and the heaven fled from his presence, and no place was found for them. -Revelation 20:11 NRSVue

After the above future event, all will be recreated anew as it was supposed to be, before it was all marred by sin.

Verses 23-26 in our Deuteronomy Song of Moses also are double. They are describing the captivities of God's people, because they forsook Him, but they are also describing the future tribulation that takes place one thousand years before the Great White Throne Judgement.

Verse 26 is all people who have turned away from God. This was for the Israelites then, and for people who leave God, today:

I said, “I will make an end of them
and blot out the memory of them from humankind,” -NRSVue

But God didn't do that, as verse 27 says that if God did this, the unsaved nations of the world would take credit for the wiping out of those people, and it would therefore do nothing to draw anyone to Him.

Verses 28-30 describe these dumb nations. They are "void of sense," as they can't deduce simple logic, that in the case of the Jews in the Old Testament, if God were to have wiped them all out, it should be obvious that it was a supernatural act. Yet a nation would declare that they did that great act, even though it would have been humanly impossible. They are dyslogic and fools by choice. They choose idiocy rather than God.

Verses 31 and 32 return to Source/Foundation language, and take it further to the fruits produced by those who built upon a certain foundation, or followed a certain source. "Their rock is not like our Rock." Their rock is a shaky foundation, not founded upon Truth. Our (referring to Christians) Rock is the Rock of Salvation upon which we build our foundation. God is our Rock; Jesus is our Rock. In fact, Jesus is the Cornerstone of our faith. This means He is the main rock laid that directs the foundation, upon which the building is built:

So then, you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, ²⁰built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone; -Ephesians 2:19-20 NRSVue

Those who are depending on the rock, rather than THE Rock have their foundation on shaky ground:

“Everyone, then, who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on [R]ock. ²⁵The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall because it had been founded on [R]ock. ²⁶And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand [rock]. ²⁷The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its fall!” -Matthew 7:24-27 NRSVue *I added the capital [R] to emphasize God/Jesus the Rock. I added [rock] lowercase r to emphasize the nations building their foundation on something other than Yahweh.

Returning to The Song of Moses, verse 32 in our chapter 32 gives another symbol for 'source.' This time it's a vine. Their source vine is the same stock as the source of the vine for Sodom and Gomorrah. The vine source of the people of God is revealed in the New Testament. Jesus says in John 15:5:

I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. -NRSVue

Those who abide in the Vine Jesus produce fruits. These fruits are called the Fruits of the Spirit, and are listed in Galatians 5:22-23:

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. -NIV 2011

Those who are in the vine stock of Sodom and Gomorrah produce fruits that are not of God's Spirit, therefore the New Testament calls them "acts of the flesh." We see these bad fruits listed in Galatians 5:19-21:

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; ²⁰idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions ²¹and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. -NIV 2011

This is why the fruits of those who are of the vinestock and vineyards of Sodom and Gormorah in The Song of Moses are described as "their grapes are the grapes of poison; their clusters are bitter; their wine is the poison of serpents; the cruel venom of asps." Their fruits are bad, because they are building on the wrong foundation, and they have chosen the wrong source.

Over and over in both Old and New Testaments the Bible teaches about foundations and sources. We often see this figurative language figured as vines, rocks/cornerstones, trees, wheat, and in the New Testament, figurative "head," such as we see in places like 1 Corinthians 11 and Ephesians 5.

In our modern culture, we see figurative "head" as 'authority,' or 'leader.' This is not what figurative "head" was in the New Testament times. It meant source. Figurative "head" in the New Testament is meant to be synonymous with vine and rock/cornerstone.

Verses 34-36 in The Song of Moses answers the question of Isn't God going to do anything about all the evil in the world? We see the answer is Yes. These verses tell us that God has not turned a blind eye, nor has he forgotten one evil or atrocity done. ALL will be answered for, and ALL wrong will be judged and punished for those who's source is not Yahweh.

In verses 37 and 38 God is saying to those who put their trust in lowercase g gods - religions that aren't The Way (John 14:6): why aren't your gods helping you? Why isn't your rock foundation holding you up? Your false religions and faulty foundation is crumbling. Your gods can do nothing for you like THE God can.

In the beginning of verse 39, God says "See now that I, even I am he; there is no god besides me." God is recalling us back to verse 8, where His title is "Most High." Yahweh God is the God above all gods. There is no one and nothing higher or more powerful than the Most High.

Verse 41 has a double meaning. It is poetic hyperbole for God's bringing judgement to those who chose faulty foundations, but it is also a literal prophecy of our future:

From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a scepter of iron; he will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. -Revelation 19:15 NRSVue

This is the second coming of Jesus Christ at the end of the tribulation, where He comes to the battle of Armageddon. The nations who refuse to follow the Creator at that battle are struck down. Remember, the ultimate goal in The Song of the Lamb and in the Song of Moses is the undoing of the Tower of Babel incident. It is the eventual bringing together of all nations under a Theocracy, with King Jesus as the Lord of lords and King of kings.

In continuing with viewing this part of the Song of Moses as happening in the Tribulation, we see in verse 42:

I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
and my sword shall devour flesh—
with the blood of the slain and the captives,
from the long-haired enemy.’ -NRSVue

This "long-haired enemy" is not mentioned in many Bible translations, but it is mentioned in the RSV, NRSV, NRSVue, the NASB, and a handful of others. This is a distinct detail, as in the Tribulation there is a "long-haired enemy" who has ungodly captives, and these captives also receive judgement, as mentioned in the above verse.

Who are the captives from the long-haired enemy? Revelation 9:1-11 tells us. I will underline the keys:

And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit; ²he opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. ³Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given authority like the authority of scorpions of the earth. ⁴They were told not to damage the grass of the earth or any green growth or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. ⁵They were allowed to torment them for five months but not to kill them, and the agony suffered was like that caused by a scorpion when it stings someone. ⁶And in those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.⁷In appearance the locusts were like horses equipped for battle. On their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces, ⁸their hair like women’s hair, and their teeth like lions’ teeth; ⁹they had scales like iron breastplates, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle. ¹⁰They have tails like scorpions, with stingers, and in their tails is their power to harm people for five months. ¹¹They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon. -NRSVue

The long-haired enemy are these locust/scorpion-like demons who are released from hades/the pit. They have "hair like women's hair." When this was written, in society, men had short hair, and women had long hair. "hair like women's hair" meant 'long hair.' This long-haired enemy kept captive people who were not Christians (Christians have the seal of God - see Eph. 1:13-14). This captivity was via being stung by these demonic creatures, and the pain was so intense that these people wanted the release of death to get away from the pain, but death evaded them. They will be the captives in pain to the long-haired enemy for five months.

Concluding the Song of Moses

The last verse in the Song of Moses wraps up both the Song of the Moses, and the main theme of the Song of the Lamb. It says:

Praise, O heavens, his people;
    worship him, all you gods!
For he will avenge the blood of his children
    and take vengeance on his adversaries;
he will repay those who hate him
    and cleanse the land for his people.” -NRSVue

Calling to the beings in the heavens to praise God, calling to the Divine Council members to return to the God of gods, calling all people to praise the God of gods. God will "avenge the blood of his children." The fallen Divine Council members must repent, or they will be avenged along with the nations of the earth who built on a shaky foundation, who's source was evil, who's fruit was detestable.

GOD WILL AVENGE ALL EVIL. NO ONE HAS GOTTEN AWAY WITH ANYTHING; NOT EVEN THE gods.

If you haven't built your foundation on the Rock of Salvation, it is NOT too late. No sin you have done is too horrible for God. Before the Apostle Paul got saved, he was imprisoning Christians, and having some of them killed. King David was called a 'man after God's own heart,' yet David was a possible rapist, an adulterer, and a murderer. He repented and God accepted his repentance. God, the Reader of hearts, always accepts true repentance. As long as there is breath in your lungs, it's not too late for you to repent.

Turn away from your sins, and turn to Jesus Christ as the Rock of your salvation, as the Vine from which you can branch and grow, in which you will produce the beautiful fruits of the Spirit. Choose right now to receive Jesus Christ as your Lord (that means master of your life) and your Savior. He died on the cross to pay for your sins in your place. He already did this for you. That's all you need to do is willingly and truly choose to accept this free gift. If you are seeking the Lord and true truth, please read the Gospel of John right away. I suggest you read it in the New Revised Standard Version updated edition NRSVue, or in the Common English Bible CEB. Both of these translations are available on BibleGateway.com to read online for free.

“Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. ⁸For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. -Matthew 7:7-8 NRSVue

“Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it. ¹⁴For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it. -Matthew 7:13-14 NRSVue

Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. -John 14:6 NRSVue

Build Your Foundation on the Rock of Salvation