Jehovah's Works -Great and Wonderful - The Song of Moses and of the Lamb-Continue

 These loyal overcomers have harps of God.  In this, they are like the temple of the Levites of old, who worshipped Jehovh with song to the accompaniment of harps.  Some also prophesied to a harp accompaniment. (1 Chronicles 15:16; 25:1-3)  The beautiful strains of the harp embellished Isaiah's songs of joy and prayers of praise and thanksgiving to Jehovah.  (1 Chronicles 13:8; Psalm 33:2;43:4; 57:7, 8)  In times of depression or captivity, the harp was not heard.  (Psalm 137:2) The presence of harp of God in this vision should whet our anticipation for an exultant, triumphant new new son of praise and thanksgiving to our God.

That is what John reports:  "And they  are singing the son of Moses and of the song of the Lamb, saying:  'Great and wonderful are your works, Jehovah God, the Almighty.  Righteous and true are your ways, King of eternity. Will not really fear you, Jehovah, and glorify your name, because you alone are loyal?  For all the nations will come and worship before you, because your righteous decrees have made manifest." - REVELATON 15:3, 4. 

These victors sing "the song of Moses," that is, a song similar to the one that Moses sang in like circumstances.  After the Israelites  had witnessed  the ten plagues in Egypt and the destructon of the Egyptian armies in the Red Sea, Moses led them in such a song of triumphant praise to Jehovah, proclaiming:  "Jehovah will rule as king to time indefinite, even forever." (Exodus 15:1-19)  How fitting that the singers in John's vision, coming victorious  from the wild beast and being involved in proclaiming the seven last plagues, should also sing "to the King of eternity"! - 1 TIMOTHY  1:17.

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