Chapter 8
Amos prophesies the downfall of Israel—There will be a famine of hearing the word of the Lord.
2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.5 Saying, When will the new moon 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 balances by deceit?6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.11 ¶Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:
And the three hours of darkness in the land that a total eclipse most likely brought per Matthew 27:45. I would love to see the calendar for total eclipses at that time:
45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
Just ONE more confirmation that the Lord uses significant celestial events to herald big events in the timeline of His people.
There was no solar eclipse when Christ died, though there was a blood moon rising on the night of Christ's death.
ReplyDeleteI attribute it to another cause. A similar cause that caused the Americas to be dark but for THREE DAYS.
Here is a really great eye opening tutorial PART 1 and PART 2 on the entire book of Amos! It's a VERY VERY serious matter when the Lord swears by His Holiness in 4:2.
ReplyDeleteThe entire book is so bone quaking as one gets to tag along with a prophet called of God to testify among evil doers. And to have that prophet pray/beg the Lord for them and it ends up being to no avail. This is so like our times it isn't funny! Nothing about the times we live in is funny. We are truly in peril by God's standards and we're running out of time to WAKE UP and be purified by Him so as to abide the Day of His Wrath. These links are worth the read. Someone went to ALOT of work!
http://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Library.sr/CT/CGGBOOKLETS/k/449/Prepare-To-Meet-Your-God-The-Book-of-Amos-Part-One.htm
http://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Library.sr/CT/CGGBOOKLETS/k/450/Prepare-To-Meet-Your-God-The-Book-of-Amos-Part-Two.htm
Wow! Just found this on the same site dealing specifically in our day with the curse of the Famine of Hearing God's Word!
http://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Library.sr/CT/PW/k/1441/Subtle-Devastating-Curse.htm
Thanks for the inspiration to read AMOS IRAQ!! You've lit a fire brother and none to soon! Truly inspired! God bless!