Holy song and dance


Prophetic song and dance is a ritual used to open communication between mankind and God to worship or to receive revelation. “When the prophet or the prophetess dance to hear the will of YHVH, and the will of Ha’Elohim, let the Priests or the Priestess praise YHVH in dance: let them sing praises unto El Elyon with the timbrel and harp; let the praises of Ha’Elohim be in their mouths” (4 Moses 33:1-2).

When Jacob build the altar in El-Bethel the women “planted walnuts and certain flowers; and they did dance all around it” (1 Moses 47:13). In 2 Moses, Levi is told that his daughters would “sing the holy songs and dance the holy dances before YHVH” (23:17). Miriam (and Zipporah according to the plates of brass) led the women of Israel in song and dance to worship God after they crossed the red sea (Exodus 15:20/3 Moses 21:22). In 3 Moses 25: 18, “Miriam and Zipporah led the daughters of Israel in song and dance, and offered libations before YHVH.” According to 2 Samuel 6:5, King David danced “before the Lord” in worship. In the Apocryphal Acts of John 95 we read “Grace danceth. I would pipe; dance ye all. Amen. I would mourn: lament ye all. Amen.”

See 3 Moses 38:40, 40:21; 4 Moses 38:7; Psalms 149:3, Psalms 150:4; Ecclesiastes 3:4.