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Amos 8 is full of wisdom and 2 Timothy 3 can be seen all over it. We have long taken things out of God's hands and lost the understanding of His ways. Many read this Book of Amos and many other Books and ask why is God so unkind. Why is earth so violent when He can make it what He wants?
Amos 8:9 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: 12 And they 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.
Wow, a famine of hearing the words of God. It is one thing to go through a physical drought but this passage shows the worse kind of famine. Many Americans have a Bible in the house somewhere and we can go read His words anytime we want. But have you ever opened His Words and they seem like an unknown language. I hear people say all the time , I read the Bible but it makes no sense. I saw something in this chapter I never thought about before. In 1 Corinthians 12 , we see the gifts God gives people. We have long went outside His ways and created our own. We assume because everyone can have a Bible we understand the Bible. We assume since anyone that has the money can go to Seminary and chose a major, we would not face Amos 8 or 2 Timothy 3. We assume since there is a church in every town we would never face this type of famine. The people in Amos and all through the Bible ate, drank and celebrated never really seeing what had crept into their lives, Jesus says we will be the same, Luke 17:26And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:
God caused that famine and unless we understand the Book of Job we would question why God would do such a thing. The pattern that has been repeated over and over since the beginning, is walking with and without God. People wanting the things of this world and creating their own ways...
2 Timothy 3 tells us of a famine of hearing His words and Jesus had concerns He would find faith and what would happen in the dry wood. God never picked Who we would pick to so anything. Look at us , we would never pick David the shepherd to be our President. We would never pick Amos to come share the word of God in our church. We need to be careful loved ones , they thought they where doing fine in days of Noah and days of Amos. They went to the Temples , they sacrificed and they sang in this chapter but God wanted noting to do with it. I heard that a group of people when they get the money are going to build another church , we do not need another building. We need to gather with this One Book and ask God to provide His Words in the people He chooses and that person may be a fruit harvester and shepherd like Amos...
Amos 8:9 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: 12 And they 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.
Wow, a famine of hearing the words of God. It is one thing to go through a physical drought but this passage shows the worse kind of famine. Many Americans have a Bible in the house somewhere and we can go read His words anytime we want. But have you ever opened His Words and they seem like an unknown language. I hear people say all the time , I read the Bible but it makes no sense. I saw something in this chapter I never thought about before. In 1 Corinthians 12 , we see the gifts God gives people. We have long went outside His ways and created our own. We assume because everyone can have a Bible we understand the Bible. We assume since anyone that has the money can go to Seminary and chose a major, we would not face Amos 8 or 2 Timothy 3. We assume since there is a church in every town we would never face this type of famine. The people in Amos and all through the Bible ate, drank and celebrated never really seeing what had crept into their lives, Jesus says we will be the same, Luke 17:26And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:
God caused that famine and unless we understand the Book of Job we would question why God would do such a thing. The pattern that has been repeated over and over since the beginning, is walking with and without God. People wanting the things of this world and creating their own ways...
2 Timothy 3 tells us of a famine of hearing His words and Jesus had concerns He would find faith and what would happen in the dry wood. God never picked Who we would pick to so anything. Look at us , we would never pick David the shepherd to be our President. We would never pick Amos to come share the word of God in our church. We need to be careful loved ones , they thought they where doing fine in days of Noah and days of Amos. They went to the Temples , they sacrificed and they sang in this chapter but God wanted noting to do with it. I heard that a group of people when they get the money are going to build another church , we do not need another building. We need to gather with this One Book and ask God to provide His Words in the people He chooses and that person may be a fruit harvester and shepherd like Amos...
