Exodus 15:1–19
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We want a God who is manageable, a divine therapist who affirms our choices and soothes our anxieties. We want a Jesus who is endlessly meek and mild, a celestial Mister Rogers. But the God of the Bible, the God who reveals Himself in Scripture, is not soft. And as this magnificent song thunders across the centuries, we are reminded that He is something else our modern sensibilities find distasteful. This song, the Song of Moses, is the first great anthem recorded in Scripture. It is not a quiet, reflective hymn sung in a hushed cathedral. It is a triumphant, roaring, conquering war chant, sung by a newly liberated people on the banks of a sea that has just become the liquid tomb of their enemies. They have just witnessed the definitive act of salvation in the Old Testament, a deliverance so profound that it will be the paradigm for every deliverance to come, including the final one.