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What is this mysterious SONG OF MOSES, and what impact does it have on our age today
-- some 3,500 years since the time of Moses? The KEY to this lies in the Book of Deuteronomy.

Just before Moses died, as the Israelites were about to enter into the PROMISED LAND,
YEHOVAH gave him a song that He instructed Moses to teach to the Israelites. Moses assembled
all the people together to speak in their hearing this song. The song prophesies of the LATTER
DAYS and the things that will befall the MODERN NATIONS OF ISRAEL because of their wor-
shipping gods other than YEHOVAH -- the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

This song will be EFFECTIVE in the purpose for which YEHOVAH God gave it because,
as we have seen in the Book of Revelation, a great multitude of people will come to understand its
meaning and REPENT before their God.

Let us now turn to the Book of Deuteronomy and get some background on this VITAL
PROPHECY for us today:

A Commission for Today

And YEHOVAH said to Moses: "Behold, you will rest with your fathers; and this people
will rise and play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be
among them, and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with
them.

"Then My anger shall be aroused against them IN THAT DAY, and I will forsake them,
and I WILL HIDE MY FACE FROM THEM, and they shall be devoured. And many evils
and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say IN THAT DAY, 'Have not these evils
come upon us because our God is not among us?'

"And I will surely HIDE MY FACE IN THAT DAY because of all the evil which they
have done, in that they have turned TO OTHER GODS.

"Now therefore, write down this SONG for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Is-
rael; put it in their mouths, that this SONG may be a witness for Me against the children of
Israel.

"When I have brought them to the land flowing with milk and honey, of which I swore to
their fathers, and they have eaten and filled themselves and grown fat, THEN THEY WILL
TURN TO OTHER GODS AND SERVE THEM; and they will provoke Me and BREAK
MY COVENANT.

"Then it shall be, when many evils and troubles have come upon them, that THIS SONG
will testify against them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten in the mouths of their de-
scendants, for I know the inclination of their behaviour today, even before I have brought
them to the land of which I swore to give them."

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