SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/24/2015
11:19 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Judgment of
Moab
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Amos 2:1-3
Message of the
verses: “1 Thus says the LORD,
"For three transgressions of Moab and for four I will not revoke its
punishment, Because he burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime. 2 “So I
will send fire upon Moab And it will consume the citadels of Kerioth; And Moab
will die amid tumult, With war cries and the sound of a trumpet. 3 “I will also
cut off the judge from her midst And slay all her princes with him," says
the LORD.”
Moab caused a lot of trouble for Israel when Israel was
coming out of Egypt and would not allow them to cross through their land even
though when you look back in history they were family as we have already
mentioned that Moab began with the incestuous relationship between a drunk Lot
and one of his daughters after God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. Moab also
hired Baalam to cruse Israel, but God would not allow him to do so, but then
Baalam told the king of Moab to allow some women of Moab to seduce some of the
men of Israel, and thus caused great problems for them, as this is seen in
Numbers 25. Then during the period of
the judges of Israel the Moabites ruled Israel for eighteen years.
Dr. Wiersbe writes “What was the sin of Moab? Disrespect for the dead and for royalty. We don’t know which king’s remains were
subjected to this humiliation, but the deed disgraced the memory of the king
and humiliated the people of Edom. How
would Americans feel if somebody disinterred John F. Kennedy’s body and
mistreated it? Or what would the British
people do if the body of a famous person were stolen from Westminster Abbey and
publicly abused?”
We can say for sure that during the ancient times people
would care a lot for the dead bodies of their relatives and famous people. Just think about the Egyptians and how they
cared for their dead Pharaohs as it would take a long time to embalm them as
evidence today shows that they are still intact.
We can see from our text that Amos announced that the
king of Moab and also his officials were all guilty and for that they would be
destroyed. Dr. Wiersbe writes “Moab was
taken by the Assyrians, and the land eventually became the home of numerous
nomadic tribes. The nation of Moab was
no more.” Amos is not the only prophet
to pronounce judgment on Moab for Isaiah 15-16, Jeremiah 48; Ezekiel 25:8-11; Zeph.
2:8-11 also wrote of Moab’s judgment.
It is important to quote once again from Warren Wiersbe
at this point for in our next SD from Amos the scene changes and we begin a new
Main point which will cover judgment on Judah and then judgment on Israel. “Before we listen to God’s messages to Judah
and Israel, we should pause to reflect on the messages we have just studied
that were delivered to six Gentile nations.
God expected these Gentiles to
listen to a Jewish prophet and heed what he said! Through not under the Mosaic Law, these
nations were responsible to God for what they did; and responsibility brings
accountability. God sees what the
nations do, and He judges them accordingly.
World news from day to day may give the impression that evil leaders and
violent subversive groups are getting away with terrible crimes, but God is
still on the throne and will punish evildoers in His good time. It is God who controls the rise and fall of
the nations (Acts 17:24-28), and His judgments are always just.”
8/24/2015 11:42 PM
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