The Spiritual Song - Exploring Prophetic Worship by Mike Herron

mighty acts of deliverance and Yahweh is memorialized as a ‘warrior’. It is an antiphonal song as Miriam, herself a prophetess, leads the women in repeating the phrases with tambourines and dancing. The song carries a strong prophecy that has the power to fulfill itself. Moses sees the purpose of the triumph and declares ‘You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain-the place, O Lord, reserved for your own dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, that your hands have established.” (17) Moses saw the coming Tabernacle of David and the ultimate heavenly sanctuary that would be the place of eternal worship and rest. The initial ‘Song of the Lord’ sung on the eastern banks of the Red Sea has become a pattern for prophetic singing in the following centuries.  The prophetic song can be ‘ new words’ with an established melody  It can have the qualities of victory and celebration  It can follow the structure of existing song forms with verse/chorus  The name of God is praised generously  It can be antiphonal, the individual phrases repeated by all  It can be filled with prophetic insight into God’s future purposes