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A Little Lighthearted Lilt

“If you can walk, then you can dance. If you can talk, then you can sing.”

a proverb from Zimbabwe

Some very learned people say that angels don’t sing, they only speak! Some very learned people say that they DO SING! I’m one of them.

There are many arguments on either side of the issue. Yet I just can’t imagine heaven without myriads of songs to praise God! Was not Satan the leader of the choir until he fell? 

The Son of God, Yeshua, while He was here on earth sang. God sings in the Scriptures!

Zephaniah 3:17
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing [H7440] .

God sings. Why wouldn’t the sons of God sing also?

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Hark! The Herald Angels Speak?

LUKE 2:13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,
14 “Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace among those with whom He is pleased!”

The word “saying” in the Greek is “legó” (G3004). It could also mean telling. They were telling the good news of the gospel. Perhaps Luke wanted to emphasize this fact.

HELPS Word-studies
“3004 légō (originally, “lay down to sleep,” used later of “laying an argument to rest,” i.e. bringing a message to closure; see Curtius, Thayer) – properly, to say (speak), moving to a conclusion (bringing it to closure, “laying it to rest”).”

The angels were “laying to rest” these statements that God deserved glory for bringing the Messiah into the world so that those who believe in Him could have peace with their Maker God Almighty.

The angels could have been singing, but possibly they may not have been. So we don’t know for sure. But how could the heaveny hosts not sing this joyful news? First thing, they would have had to have a rhythm to say it all in unison. This is best accomplished through singing which has a beat.

THE MORNING STARS SANG

JOB 38:7 when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy [H7442]?

One argument is that the “morning stars” refer to the physical universe. The stars in space do sing and God can hear them (if He wants to). This is called stellar seismology, a very fascinating subject. Stars “sing” yet the frequency is to low for humans to hear. NASA has an article about this and shows a video that brings the vibrations up so people can hear them. It is a symphony of stellar magnitude! The whole cosmos is making sounds!

“Nothing is ever not oscillating, not ‘sounding’ at the atomic level. There is no ultimate silence.” – H. Christopher Schweitzer, Ph.D.

That’s contrary to “The Sound of Silence”, the Simon & Garfunkel hit song!

However, on the other hand, many believe that the “morning stars” are angels:

Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
“When the morning-stars – There can be little doubt that angelic beings are intended here, though some have thought that the stars literally are referred to, and that they seemed to unite in a chorus of praise … The comparison of a prince, a monarch, or an angel, with a star, is not uncommon; compare the notes at Isaiah [14:12]. The expression “the morning-stars” is used on account of the beauty of the principal star which, at certain seasons of the year, leads on the morning. It is applied naturally to those angelic beings that are of distinguished glory and rank in heaven. That it refers to the angels, seems to be evident from the connection; and this interpretation is demanded in order to correspond with the phrase “sons of God” in the other member of the verse.” (Emphasis mine)

The word “star” could also be translated as “prince” symbolically in the Hebrew. So maybe the “morning stars” were heavenly princes!

Strong’s Concordance
Original word: כּוֹכָב
Transliteration: kokab
Definition (full): a star, a prince

A “prince” would be appropriate for this verse:

NUM 24:17 I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near: a star [or doubly, Prince?] shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the forehead of Moab and break down all the sons of Sheth.

This is a prophecy about Yeshua, our Prince of Peace!

Stars are used symbolically in Scripture to represent angels:

REV 1:20 As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

In this verse, these angels might have been human messengers or heavenly hosts. One may see the use of these “stars” as fallen angels in REV 9:1 and REV 12:4. However, Daniel uses stars in this verse to be humans.

DAN 12:3
And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.

Angels are the “sons of God” and humans who believe in Christ are the “sons of God”, also!  So might we say that all the “sons of God” sing praise to the LORD?

PSALM 150

This psalm has music in it. The cymbals are clashing, the trumpets are playing. The context is music.

PSA 150:6
Let everything that has breath praise the LORD!
 Praise the LORD!

Do angels have breath? They blow the trumpets so they have to have some wind to do it! But this context is music. So why wouldn’t angels lift up their voices to sing a song of praise to their Creator as well?

So do you agree or disagree? 

It’s not essential to one’s salvation. That is a belief in Yeshua the Messiah who came to earth, died physically and was resurrected. He is life!

This is the additional verse that I wrote to add to “I Wonder As I Wander”: 

But the King, for the joy that was set before Him
Aspired to absolve us from pride and from sin
So poor, orn’ry people could come to His throne
And be blessed in the heavens — for Christ made us His own.

Yeshua is Our Emmanuel, Our God with us!

This Christmas lyric and others here.

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Also see, “O Little Tower of Bethlehem” – not your ordinary book about the birth of Christ, recommended by the Institute for Hebraic Christian Studies.