Deuteronomy 32 & Isaiah 52

Deuteronomy 32


- Moses taught the assembly of Israel a new song


- Moses tells the heavens and earth to listen to his words while he proclaims God's greatness.


- Moses refers to God a the Rock


- God's ways are perfect and justice


- God is faithful and without iniquity


- Israel has dealt corruptly with God so they are no longer His children.


- Moses calls the people foolish and senseless because God created them.


- Moses tells the young to ask the older generation about God's faithfulness.


- God gave the peoples of the earth borders, but he made Jacob his heritage.


- Jacob was in the desert, a wasteland and God encircled him and cared for him.


- God alone guided him, no foreign gods were involved.


- God fed him honey out of rocks and oils out of flinty rocks. (similar to water out of rocks at Marriba?)


- God also gave them milk, wine, and wheat to eat.


- Jeshurun grew fat and forsook God and scoffed at the "Rock of his salvation"


- They made God jealous and angry by following strange gods.


- They worshipped demons and new gods which their fathers had never heard about.


- They forgot God who made them.


- God saw their wickedness and hid His face because they were perverse and not faithful.


- God said he would provoke Israel to anger using a foolish nation.


- God anger burns to the depths of Sheol and burn the earth and its increase.


- Is the "increase" the nation of Israel?


- God says He will send plague, waste, teeth, and venom against them.


- God will set the sword against ALL of Israel; man, woman, young, and old.


- The reason Moses didn't want God to wipe out Israel was because their enemies might misunderstand and think they defeated Israel instead of God punishing them.

- Moses says their enemies have no counsel and no understanding.

- Moses recounts that two of their people defeated ten thousand (Joshua)

- Moses links those people with Sodom and Gomorrah.

- God says vengeance is His and He will repay them

- God will judge His people and have compassion on them once their power is gone.

- God will simply ask them in this low time, where their other gods have gone.

- God will tell them to have their gods help and protect them.

- God tells them that He is the only God and no one can deliver them out of God's hand.

- God will sharpen His "flashing sword" (lightning) and take vengeance on His adversaries.

- He will kill His enemies.

- Moses says the Israelites' response should be to rejoice and even other gods should bow down to God.

- He will avenge the blood of His children.

- Moses rehearsed this song with them and warned them to remember it and teach it to their children.

- Moses' song is not simply "empty words" but words of long life in the new land.

- God told Moses to go up Mount Nebo (in Abrim) in the land of Moab to view the promised land.

- God also told Moses that he'd die there.

- Moses would die there because he "broke faith" with God at the waters of Meribah-kadesh.

- This was because Moses didn't treat God as holy before his people.



Isaiah 52

- Jerusalem needs to wake up and put on strength and garments for no more uncircumcised will come into the city.
- They need to pick themselves up and loose their bonds.
- Israel was sold for nothing and will be redeemed without money.
- God recounts them sojourning into Egypt.
- The Assyrians have oppressed them for nothing.
- God sees His people have been taken away and His name is despised.
- God promised they will all know His name soon.
- Well known verse 7 , How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news
- People bring good news, publishes salvation, and who tell Zion their God reigns.
- They sing for joy and see the return of the Lord.
- The Lord redeemed His people so they can sing.
- All nations will see the salvation of the Lord.
- God tells them to depart and go out from "there" Where is there?
- They need to purify themselves.
- God will go before them AND be their rear guard (He will totally protect them).
- God's servant shall act wisely and be lifted up and exalted.
- His appearance was marred and kings will shut their mouths because of him (Jesus?)
- They will see things untold and understand things they have not heard.
- This last section of Isaiah 52 seems to point to Jesus