Amos for Today and Tomorrow
Chapters 7 to 9
CHAPTER 7 The plumbline is upon Israel, the straight edge, the recognizing of wrong, of sin, will not be winked at; God will not pass by with a blind eye any more; the time for judgment and punishment will come; Israel will be laid waste, the sword will come upon all the land of Israel. Yes, this section was written as the historical events of the days of Amos, Jeroboam the king was to die. Amos is told to "get lost" - get back to Judah and give prophecy there but not in Israel. Amos replies that he was going about his work as a herdsman and gatherer of sycamore fruit; it was the Lord who called him and told him to go and give warning prophecy to Israel. Amos continued his reply by telling them that the SWORD of death and destruction would come on them. The people of Israel would go into captivity into another land. And we know of course that it DID HAPPEN. We have seen also in Jeremiah 30 that these things will HAPPEN AGAIN, AT THE END TIME. CHAPTER 8 God once more tells us that He will not pass by with closed eyes. The summer fruit is over, the day of reckoning is at hand for Israel. The songs in the temples of Israel, the religious institutions, will be songs of HOWLING; for dead people will be everywhere, there will be silence in Israel (verses 1-2). Judgment against Deceitful Merchants "Hear this, O you that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail" (verse 4). What have we seen in September 2008? We have seen the greedy "I'll get my riches" investor bankers of Wall Street CRASH as their sinful ways FAILED, and the average "fellow on the street" is also made to fail. Then the most un-popular President since Richard Nixon, George Bush, wants the average citizen to bail out the filthy-rich elite of Wall Street. It is a DOUBLE WHAMY for the average USA citizen. Those investors had the attitude of "When will the new month day be gone, that we may sell corn? And the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and FALSIFYING the balance sheet by DECEIT!" (verses 5). It is the attitude of "To hell with you and everything, do not stop for this day or that day, work at the deception all the time. I will do anything to make myself rich." Have you seen the various number of mansions these people have here and there, as it was shown on the TV news programs. And there was all the extremely expensive "parties" these guys put on to help falsify the balance sheets. At the moment there is no talk about making these fellows PAY BACK MILLIONS, or making them sell their huge expensive homes, cars, boats etc. It was the attitude of "We may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; Yes, sell the refuse of the wheat!" (verse 6). Time may pass, the USA may BAIL these guys out, maybe it will take a TRILLION dollars of tax money to stay off even more failure. Maybe the USA will get out of this MESS from the deceit and serious mistakes of white collar bankers ... maybe it will all be history one day, but God says "I have SWORN by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will NEVER FORGET ANY OF THEIR WORKS" (verse 7). For this "falsifying the balanced by deceit" and all the other iniquities of Israel, God says, "Shall not the land TREMBLE for this, and every one MOURN that dwells therein; and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt" (verse 8). As sure as the rising of the sun, the day of punishment is coming on Israel for their totality of sins. The Day of Mourning for Spiritual Famine Today we have the great blessing of FREEDOM to study the Word of God. You can open your Bible in the lands of Israel any time, at your discretion and study the words of God. You can listen to the radio, watch and listen to TV, and all the religious programs you like. You can get on the Internet and open up this Website and study the word of the Lord to your hearts content. But it is not always going to be this way!! There is coming a time when the sun will go down at noon, and God will darken the earth in the clear day. The day is coming when the Feasts of Israel, all the ones that give you joy, shall be held with MOURNING; your songs will be songs of LAMENTATION; sackcloth will be the garment to wear, and baldness upon every head; it will be as the mourning of an only son who dies, and the day will be as bitterness. A FAMINE IS COMING! Not a famine of bread to eat, nor of thirst for water, BUT A HEARING THE WORDS OF THE LORD! (verse 9- 11). THE TIME WILL COME WHEN THIS BLOG WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE TO YOU! WHEN OTHER WEBSITES OF MY CO-WORKERS WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE TO YOU! THE TRUTHS OF THE BIBLE WILL NOT BE PROCLAIMED TO YOU AS THEY CAN BE TODAY! IF GOD IS GIVING YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY FROM THIS BLOG YOU BETTER USE THE TIME YOU ARE GIVEN NOW, FOR THE DAY COMES WHEN AN OPEN, STRAIGHT TALKING AND INDEPTH BLOG LIKE THIS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED. THE LAST END TIME BEAST POWER, THE BABYLON MYSTERY RELIGION CHURCH, WILL THROW THIS AND SIMILAR BLOGS TO THE DUST. IT WILL BE GONE, THERE WILL COME A TIME, RELATIVELY SHORT YES, BUT A TIME NEVER-THE-LESS OF NOT HEARING THE TRUE WORDS OF THE LORD. FOR THE TIME WILL COME WHEN "they (the people of Israel [and Judah]) shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to SEEK the WORD of the Lord, AND SHALL NOT FIND IT!!" (verse 12). The young virgin ladies and men shall faint for thirst - spiritual thirst for sure. All who put their trust in the false religions of Samaria Israel shall FALL in that day (verse 13,14). It will be the time of Jacob's Trouble as Jeremiah put it in his prophecy (Jer.30:7-9). The time of great tribulation on earth as never the like before nor ever will be again (see Daniel 12:1- 3; Mat.24:21). CHAPTER 14 Vision of God Destroying the Religious Idolaters The vision that Amos sees is towards all the false religion in Israel. The words are chilling to say the least. When it is time to punish the house of Israel (which is most of the Western world) the individuals that have not come under the Babylon Mystery religion of the European Beast power will suffer in no uncertain way; as the book of Revelation shows, if you have not taken the "mark" of the Beast you will be hunted down and killed as also shown in this passage of Amos. For many there will be no escape, fleeing will not save you, going down into the ground, climbing the hills to heaven, out or under the sea; all a figurative way of saying ...."And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good" (verses 1-4). As the 12th chapter of Revelation shows, there will be SOME from the very TRUE Church of God, that will find protection in the WILDERNESS. Satan and his Babylon Beast will try to find them, but God will use the natural elements like the earth-quake to defend and protect the saints in the wilderness. The "rapture" of these saints to heaven (as a good portion of fundamental Christianity teaches) is a FALSE doctrine. But Revelation 12 does teach that SOME true Christians will be PROTECTED on this earth in the WILDERNESS. There are studies on my Website explaining all this. God is the CREATOR, it is He who has power over the forces of nature (verses 5-7). His eyes are on the SINFUL kingdom, and He will destroy it off the earth, but in so saying, He also adds He will NOT UTTERLY destroy the house of Jacob (verse 8). "For lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among the nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, 'The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us'" (verses 9-10). It is an attitude of UN-REPENTANCE! As we have seen only ONE in TEN shall live. Those left shall not be lost or fall to the ground. During the Great Tribulation those Israelites left alive will start to REPENT! They will see why they have been destroyed and punished with death and sorrow. They will begin to turn back to their God in spirit and in truth. By the time we get to the "day of the Lord" 12 THOUSAND from each tribe of Israel will have God's Spirit in them (Revelation 7) except the tribe of Dan - and I do not know why Dan is not included, we are not told. Then the time will come when God will raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, the breaches will be closed up; Israel will begin to rise from ruin, for Jesus the Messiah, as we have seen in so many prophecies already, will COME, and will GATHER the scattered children of Israel and Judah from the lands of their enemies and bring them back to the Holy Land. True religion - the tabernacle of David (as it is written - the man after God's own heart) will be RESTORED to Israel, as Christ and the resurrected saints with Him come to Jerusalem, to dwell in Zion. As we have seen, and as we will in the book of Obadiah, Israel will possess Edom (Turkey) - deal out punishment on them as the Israelites march back from Europe and enter Turkey on their way to the Holy Land (verse 12). It is the time for the NEW AGE to begin! The Kingdom of God is on earth. So the Lord says: "Behold, the days come, says the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and the hills shall melt. And I will BRING AGAIN the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall NO MORE be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, says the Lord thy God" (verses 13-15). This could NOT be a prophecy for the Israel or Judah of Amos's day, and Judah's return from Babylon after their 70 year captivity, FOR THE JEWS WERE AGAIN REMOVED FROM THE HOLY LAND under the Roman Empire. They did not become a nation again in the Holy Land until 1948 A.D. The whole CONTEXT and the whole messages in all the other prophetic books of the Old Testament, that we are going through, even THEIR CONTEXTS, prove the verses here in Amos, ARE FOR THE VERY TIME OF THE END AND THE SETTING UP OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH, WHEN JESUS WILL RETURN AND DELIVER ISRAEL AND JUDAH OUT OF CAPTIVITY AND PLANT THEM BACK IN THE HOLY LAND, WHERE THEY WILL BE PROSPEROUS AND ALL OF THEM WILL HAVE THE SPIRIT OF GOD, AND WILL FINALLY BE A LIGHT TO THE WORLD, AS WAS ORIGINALLY INTENDED BY THE LORD (Deuteronomy 4). GOD SPEED THAT DAY!!! Keith Hunt
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