Revelation 15:3-4 And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying,
“Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty!
Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations!
4 Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name?
For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you,
for your righteous acts have been revealed.”
Moses sang a song in Exodus 15 after God had parted the Red Sea and the Hebrew slaves had passed through the waters unharmed. Now there is a new song of Moses after a similar situation. God rescued his people from the snares of the devil and his beast. They have been victorious over the troubles of this world and the time of tribulation and great testing of their faith. This song is also called the song of the Lamb because the Lamb is the means by which God has saved people. Those who put their faith and hope in the Lamb come out victorious in the end.
This song echoes the song of Moses in Exodus 15 in the sense of praise to God. The focus of this praise is on the deeds of God, what God has done. God is described as the King of the nations. This is a direct confrontation to the beast who sets himself up as the king of the world in ch. 13. The reign of the beast is temporary and incomplete. God’s reign is over all and forever.
The passage is a warning to those who refuse to worship God. This is given in the form of a question: “Who will not fear and glory your name?” Whoever does not will be faced with the wrath of ch. 16. Fear of the Lord will be shown in recognizing God’s holiness. All nations and people will recognize this, as “at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:10-11).
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