Deuteronomy 32:1-2: Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass.

Matthew 4:4: But He answered and said: It is written man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Deuteronomy 8:3: And He humbled thee and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that He might make thee know that man doth not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

In our time God does not speak loudly and directly to us from heaven. Rather He speaks through his Book, the Bible, which records his own words when He lived on earth and those He spoke through his prophets and apostles.

But the time will come when He will make his voice heard audibly again. Deuteronomy 32:1-2 declares that the Lord will speak to the whole earth. His words will fall as the dew (that is daily) and penetrate the ears of all as the soft showers of spring water the ground.

Fact is, for the last 2,000 years the Lord Jesus Christ has kept silence. His last words to mankind, contained in the “prison epistles” of the Apostle Paul, spoke into being the present dispensation of grace and the mystery. Thus the age in which we live is unique in that it is the first since Adam sinned to offer free salvation to all mankind.

Now, it can be a fearful thing when God speaks directly to man. In Deuteronomy 5: 22-27 when God spoke out of the fire on Mount Sinai the children of Israel begged to hear it no more, “lest we die”. But, it is in mercy and justice that the Lord will next speak audibly as he takes over government of the world (2 Timothy 4:1).

Deuteronomy 32:1-2 begins the song the Lord gave to Moses for Israel to remember God when in time to come “many evils and troubles have befallen them” as a consequence of their turning to false gods (Deut. 31:21). Moses taught Israel to sing the song but in reality it was not Moses’ song, nor theirs; it was and is a song sung by the Lord Himself.

The song looks forward to the Day (of Christ) when the Lord Jesus Christ He brings about his kingdom on all the earth. In that Day, which begins with the Lord’s appearing (Titus 2:13, 2 Timothy 4:1), man will indeed live by every word of God and those that won’t so live will die.

Everyone will hear what God has to say when He next speaks from heaven and his words will have lost none of the power they had when He spoke the heavens and the earth into being in the day of creation.

We should understand that the both prophets of old often wrote of God doing things in the present or the past when actually they awaited a future fulfilment. This they did because they were sure the promised events would ultimately happen.

For example, in Psalm 19:1-4 we read:

The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. 

The “heavens” here are a metaphor for the Lord Himself when He shall speak from heaven. But, clearly, his voice was not being heard by all on earth in David’s lifetime, as it will be when He speaks from heaven in the Day of Christ, the time of his kingdom (1 Cor. 1:8, Phil. 1:6 and 10).Nor it is heard by all today.

Proof the verse above will be fulfilled only when Christ speaks from heaven to inaugurate his kingdom rule over earth is that David writes of the “firmament” shewing God’s “handiwork”. Fact is there was no “firmament” in David’s time, nor is there one in ours. But there will be one again when the Lord speaks 24/7 throughout the several hundred years of the Day of Christ

The firmament (Hebrew: raqiya and shamayim), a canopy of ice and water sandwiching hydrogen in near metallic form, was spoken into being by God on the second of the six days of creation (Gen. 1:6-8).

Perhaps some 20 feet thick this canopy “divided” the waters above it from those below (the seas) and largely shielded earth’s inhabitants from damaging ultra-violet and other rays. Shedding a warm, pink light on earth day and night it is held by some to have been “the lesser light” of Gen 1:16 rather than the moon.

Be that as it may, the fact is the firmament was destroyed in the Noahic deluge, releasing the “waters above” to flood the earth. It has not existed since then but here in Psalm 19: 1-4 David speaks of it being restored to again show God’s handiwork. Therefore the wonderful scenario described in Psalm 19:1-4 awaits future fulfilment.

So, when will it take place? Answer: In the Day of Christ when the Lord reveals Himself to all on earth at his “appearing and kingdom” (2 Tim. 4:1). Why? Because in Acts 3:21 the Apostle Peter declares that Christ must be retained in heaven “until the restitution (restoring) of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began”.

Among the “all things” is the fulfilment of the Psalm 19 prophecy, which describes how, in a time to come, man will truly learn to live by the word of God. For that which “proceeds out of his mouth” will be spoken 24/7 into the ears of all on earth, living by then under the warm glow of the firmament.

The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven (firmament): the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook” (Psalm 77:18).

This not speaking just of natural thunder and lightning; but the penetrating power of his voice to change hearts and command obedience when He speaks from heaven. The effect is such that:

…in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness (Isaiah 29:18).

So, what will Christ say when He speaks non-stop to all the world from heaven? It is my conviction He will speak the “word of the kingdom”, i.e. it’s rules principles and purpose, the message that He prophetically preached as “at hand” in his days upon earth. Thus, in Matt. 13:19 we read Him saying:

When anyone heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one and, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed sown by the wayside.

Sadly, in our time the “word of the kingdom” has been overlooked and ignored by the vast majority of Christendom. The pre-advent bringing of the kingdom from heaven before the so-called “rapture” and “second coming” is not something they have heard or want to hear. But when in the Day of Christ this kingdom message is broadcast on the radio waves of outer space, and falls on the ears of all men 24/7, they will hear it. Isaiah 29:18 says so.

John Dudley Aldworth

Email: john.aldworth@hotmail.com