Sermon Tone Analysis

Ha’azinu

Give Ear

Introduction

Torah Portion

This Torah Portion goes from Deuteronomy 32:1-52

Last Torah portion we discussed that although we have a pastor, leader, Shepard, or an elder to lead, that it is the Lord the one who commands

Spring rain and Fall rain

Prior to last Torah portion we also talked about The Hebrew Blood Covenant:

Take off Coat/ Robe

Take Off Belt

Cut the Covenants

Raise the Right Arm/Mix w/blood

Exchange Names

Make a Scar

Give Covenant Terms

Eat a Memorial Meal

Plant a Memorial/tree

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First Born

We discussed how Moses, even when leaving, renews the covenant of God with Israel and how he charges Joshua

Talked about the SIN of Israel in their rebellion - and how it compares to us

How God is faithful and does not forget His covenant to us and to Israel

Requirement of our repentance - its prophetic significance for both Israel and us

God = Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient

We left it at the last verse of our last Torah Portion

Song of Moses this week

Last verse from last Torah Portion

Moses required to have the whole assembly hear the words of his song from beginning to end, as witnesses

He also wanted other witnesses

How many of you know that a song tells a story

What is the story?

Torah Portion

If you tell a story you need someone to listen

Give EAR

Deuteronomy 1:45 (NKJV)

Then you returned and wept before the Lord, but the Lord would not listen to your voice nor give ear to you.

Job 9:16 (NKJV)

If I called and He answered me, I would not believe that He was listening to my voice.

If you tell a story you want witnesses to tell it was true

Moses wanted witnesses, not only in the here and now, but that would outlive his later generations

Heavens and Earth - witnesses

Otherwise who would reproach (rebuke) Israel of the future if they were to deny that they had ever accepted the covenant?

Moses appoints Heavens and Earth which are eternal as witness

These witnesses would take the lead in administering the appropriate punishment if Israel were found to be guilty of breaking the covenant?

Punishment: heavens withholding the rain; earth withholding its produce

God explains that Heavens and Earth are witnesses of His creation and they witness the History of mankind

This also speaks of the Eternal Life of His Sabbath

Why does God have to have witnesses of His creation?

Why does Moses have to have witnesses of his song?

Simply because man does not want to listen

Isaiah 64:4 (NKJV)

For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, Nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him.

Why is hearing important?

The context of this verse is right at the centre of Israel history of being un-repented, not receiving Messiah, which Paul speaks about in Romans

Is that new? - No

Is only Israel that does not want to hear?-

No

The “song” that Moses spoke in the hearing of the assembly in Deut 31:30 was intended for a few purposes:

Since the nature of a song is to render recognition of the total harmony of creation, It often mixes past, present and future, for everything is revealed to the prophets as a total reality in which there is no conflict, in which future and past events are not only in complete synchronization (harmony), but they add clarity to one another.

Therefore everything is amalgamated as it is happening all together at once. - complete harmony

God speaks and it is a reality; even when have not seen it yet.

He speaks in completed reality - a completed reality

This is why God is speaking of Israel as if though everything was taking place today - eternal reality

3. To have heaven and earth to be witnesses of the calamities Israel will face, if they sin - the reality of sin

4. But also to have heaven and hearth to be witness of the joy that will come with the final redemption - the reality of redemptive plan of God

Just as the song recognizes the total harmony of God: past, future and the present, without conflict, in complete synchronization, the covenants of God also do not conflict or replace each other but add clarity to one another.

All covenants stand with God

COVENANT

God’s covenants with Israel

Through Moses

Exodus 19:5

Through Abraham

Genesis 12:1-3

Covenant of Land through Abraham

Genesis 13:15

Through David

2 Sam 7:1-17

To establish a Renewed Covenant - through the prophet

Jeremiah 31:31-34

What is then the Song of Moses?

An invitation to covenant

Haazinu is called a song of Moses because it was given to him), but because it is a Jewish custom to always chant it and it is in a poetic form (Ramban).

Rabbi Geadliah Schorr explains that “ ‘song’ implies the concept of harmony (as I explained before), in that people recognize that all elements of the universe fuse in carrying out God’s will, just as all the notes in the score of a complex song, all the instruments of an orchestra, and all the voices in a choir join in harmonious cooperation to create a song, as opposed to disjointed noise that results from the failure of the notes, instruments, and voices to harmonize properly.”

Let us go over the song

Remember a song tells a story

Let us listen to the invitation to Covenant

To do that we will only work on Verses 1-43 of this Torah Portion

Presentation

What does the Song of Moses tell us?

TEACHING OF MOSES

לֶ֫קַח

Teaching = Torah (leka)

Asking for the Torah to come down like rain - as our previous Torah portion mentioned the former and latter rain

Teaching also means learning

לֶ֫קַח

לֶ֫קַח S3948 TWOT1124a GK4375 n.m.

Pr 4:2 \

S3948 TWOT1124a GK4375 learning, teaching (concrete; prob.

what is received);

Francis Brown, Samuel Rolles Driver, and Charles Augustus Briggs, Enhanced Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977), 544.

It also means to take (like in the Take Away)

לָקַח

לָקַח S3947 TWOT1124 GK3689, 4374965 vb.

take (NH id., especially buy, and (Niph.)