An Exclusive Choir

The Guinness World Record for the largest choir comes in at 121,440 people, who sang together for an event in Perungalathur, Chennai, India, on January 30, 2011. There is a group of singers unlike any other in history. The 144,000 “sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb.” What’s special about these unique vocalists is not necessarily their skill in song but their exclusive experience.

The song of Moses is a reference to the experience of the children of Israel, who went through the plagues of Egypt, escaped the clutches of Pharaoh’s army, and walked through the Red Sea after God miraculously parted the waters. “Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD, and spoke, saying: ‘I will sing to the LORD, for He has triumphed gloriously! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!’” (Exodus 15:1).

God’s last-day people will go through the seven last plagues, escape the clutches of the beast power, and then stand on the sea of glass after being miraculously delivered by Christ at the Second Coming. They will parallel the Israel of old. The children of Israel sang likewise of God’s “wrath” (v. 7) and of their own “salvation” (v. 2), as wrought for them by the Lord. They praised the Savior, “You in Your mercy have led forth the people whom You have redeemed; You have guided them in Your strength to Your holy habitation” (v. 13).

Their song also reveals who is the only God in existence: “Who is like You, O LORD, among the gods [the mighty ones]? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?” (v. 11). It is a direct denunciation of the world’s exaltation of the beast: “Who is like the beast?” (Revelation 13:4). The beast is only a pretended version, a counterfeit of God. The one and only God will truly redeem, protect, and deliver His people.

Dear Jesus, may I sing Your praises all my lifelong, in times of troublous plagues as well as in times of joyous victory.

For Further Study: Matthew 14:22–33; Hebrews 11:29; Revelation 14:3–5

Key Bible Texts

And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. (Revelation 15:3 KJV)