Chapter Thirty-One/Jehovah's Works - Great and Wonderful - The Song of Moses and of the Lamb - Continue

 These victors sing "the song of Moses," that its, a song similar to one that Moses sang in like circumstances. After the Israelites had witnessed the ten plagues in Egypt and the destruction 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 off victorious from the wild beast and bring involved in proclaiming the seven last plagues, should also sing "to the King of eternity"! - 1 TIMOTHY 1:17.

In another song, composed as Israel prepared for the conquest of Canaan, the aged Moses told that nation: "I shall declare the name of Jehovah. Do you attribute greatness to our God!" The last verse of this song also gave encouragement to non-Israelites, and Moses' inspired words reach right down to the great crowd of today: "Be glad, you nations, with his people. And why should they be glad? Because now Jehovah "will avenge the blood of his servants, and he will pay back vengeance to his adversaries." This execution of righteous judgment will bring jubilation to all who hope in Jehovah. - DEUTERONOMY 32:3, 43; ROMANS 15:10-13; REVELATION 7:9. 

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