THE SONG OF MIRIAM!

Revelations 15:3 

And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and amazing are your deeds.

 3,400 years ago the Children of Israel celebrated a great victory on the Eastern bank of the Gulf of Aqaba. Miraculously supplied with ‘bread from heaven (John 6:31)’, Pharaoh’s armies at their heels, they crossed the Sinai Desert. Later, they saw more of the majestic power of Hashem when the waters of the Red Sea stood as walls at their sides to give them passage. They then witnessed the same waters receding to swallow whole the army of their enemy dealing a deathly blow to the power that once was Egypt. The Biblical records tell us that of, all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, not one of them remained (Exodus 14:28). On the other side, in the Land called today Saudi Arabia then called Midian, under the leadership of Moses and Miriam the Children of Israel erupted into a song of praise that will echo through the centuries (Exodus 15). 

 Over a hundred years after the initial conquest of the Land, the song of Miriam already finds an echo. After Joshua’s death, Israel was left without central leadership. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes (Judges 17:6), so, the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor (Judges 4:2). Eventually, when Israel was ready to amend his ways, Hashem allowed Judge/prophetess Deborah and military leader Barak to muster an army to challenge Jabin. As Sisera, Jabin’s general, positions his army to intercept Israel, El-Shaadai again works in Israel’s favor. He shows His great glory and power while unleashing from the sky a torrential storm thus flooding the Kishon waterway (Judges 4). The flood waters and muddy ground rendered Sisera’s chariots helpless and vulnerable to Israel’s army. The Biblical records tell us again that ‘all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not a man was left (Judges 4:16). Again, an army trying to trap Israel was rendered helpless through a flood of waters. Like with Moses and Miriam, Barak and Deborah celebrated with a song (Judges 5). 

 Will there be another echo? 

 Zechariah tells us of another war against Israel; a war where all nations will rise against Jerusalem (Zechariah 14). At that time it is a flood of blood that will render the armies of the enemy useless (Revelations 14:20). By the Mountain of Megiddo, at the same place where Sisera’s army fell, the armies of the Anti-Messiah will gather against Jerusalem and fall. Again, not a man will be left (Revelations 16:16; Revelations 19). At that time, Miriam’s song will echo in the mouth of the Children of God of all ages, through a spontaneous eruption of praise and adoration to our mighty God (Revelations 5:9; 14:3; 15:3). May it be soon Abba, even in our days!