If Satan was defeated like Pharaoh and his army, why is there all trouble in the world? Well, there is still some mopping up action to be done. (Hebrews 10:12-14[notes1] ; 1Corinthians 15:28[notes2] ) Some people still give him access to their lives. The enemy is still out there fighting his guerrilla warfare, but the mission is accomplished. The war was won. The rest is just clean up and training to prepare you for eternity. Resurrection was the defeat of sin and death, and it’s something to sing about! (1Peter 3:22[notes3] )

We need to exalt God in song too! We sing of the Savior’s victory that He won single handedly. Jesus triumphed gloriously. That is, He showed the attributes of God on the cross and in the resurrection. Glorious! (1Peter 1:21[notes4] ) We just stood still and watched the salvation of God.

² The LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him. The Lord is my strength, my spiritual strength. The Israelites weren’t strong enough to fight Egypt’s war machine. The Lord was their strength and continued to be so. We couldn’t fight Satan. (Romans 8:3[notes5] ) The Lord had to be our strength and continues to be so!

YHWH is our song! He is the song they sang. (Psalm 118:14[notes6] ) It was all about Him. And He is the song that we sing. I love the songs that focus on Jesus. There’s Just Something About That Name; Sweetest Name I Know; Praise the Name of Jesus; Jesus is All the World to Me; His Name is Wonderful; and so many more. He is our song!

He has become my salvation! They were saved from Pharaoh and from slavery. We were saved from Satan and the slavery of the flesh and sin. He has become our salvation! Jesus (Yeshua) means salvation of the LORD! (Matthew 1:21[notes7] )

He may have not been your father’s god like He was for these Israelites, but as our father of faith is Abraham, we can join with that mixed multitude in claiming Abraham as our father too. (Galatians 3:29[notes8] ) Since God is our strength, our song, our salvation, and our father’s God, we will praise and exalt Him! We better praise and exalt Him.

If you have the KJV you have a slightly different translation. Instead of “I will praise Him”, you have “I will prepare him an habitation”. Nawa is a Hebrew word that means to rest, as at home, and contains the idea of beauty. It can mean to keep at home or prepare a habitation. The implication is praise but the word is much richer. It’s to rest in the Lord as if He’s at home with you as you praise His beauty. That’s a great description of how we should regard our salvation. (Psalm 27:4[notes9] ; John 14:23[notes10] )

³ The LORD is a man of war; the LORD is his name. War isn’t politically correct anymore. We are so shocked at the horror of war and the cost in life that we have distaste for war. But it’s because the Lord is good that He is a warrior against evil. He is at war with the oppressor. He is a man of war against all wrong and injustice. He won’t let evil go unpunished. (Proverbs 11:31[notes11] ) He defeated Pharaoh and He defeated Satan through the cross and resurrection. Thank God He is a man of war or we’d be in big trouble.

12 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,

13 waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet.

14 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

[notes2] 1 Corinthians 15:28 (ESV)

28 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.

[notes3] 1 Peter 3:22 (ESV)

22 who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.

[notes4] 1 Peter 1:21 (ESV)

21 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

[notes5] Romans 8:3 (ESV)

3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

[notes6] Psalm 118:14 (ESV)

14 The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.

[notes7] Matthew 1:21 (ESV)

21 She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”

[notes8] Galatians 3:29 (ESV)

29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.

[notes9] Psalm 27:4 (ESV)

4 One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in his temple.

[notes10] John 14:23 (ESV)

23 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

[notes11] Proverbs 11:31 (ESV)

31 If the righteous is repaid on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!

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