SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/22/2015
10:07 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
Introduction to Amos 5
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Amos 5:1
Message
of the verse: “1 Hear this word
which I take up for you as a dirge, O house of Israel.”
In chapters 5-6 we see the lamentations
that Amos speaks of, something we discussed as a part of the outline for these
two chapters. Dr. Wiersbe actually calls
his fourth chapter “How To Avoid The Storm,” and it covers the first seventeen
verses of chapter five, while verses eighteen through the end of chapter five
we will look at when we get to the fifth chapter of Dr. Wiersbe’s outline and
commentary for Amos.
Now what we will be looking at in
these fourteen verses is the prophets third message and as this first verse
tells us it is a funeral dirge that the Lord is giving for them as they are
about to be destroyed. The verses that
ended the fourth chapter of Amos and these verses that begin chapter five are
very sobering verses and they can probably be applied to different nations as
they sin against the Lord, but we see from the four times that Israel is
mentioned in these first four verses
that they were originally met for Israel. Wailing and lamentation goes on in the houses
of Israel as seen in verse sixteen: “Therefore
thus says the LORD God of hosts, the Lord, "There is wailing in all the
plazas, And in all the streets they say, ’Alas! Alas!’ They also call the
farmer to mourning And professional mourners to lamentation.” I was just thinking about how the Egyptians
mourned their first born when the Lord destroyed all of them as the last plague
that was done to Egypt by the Lord, and now we see that Israel is going through
the same thing as they committed the sins that caused God to judge Egypt for
which was mostly for idolatry.
It was a pattern for the nation of
Israel to hire professional mourners when a person died, but there will be so
many killed that they will not have enough professional mourners to do all of
the mourning, and in verses 16-17 we will see that they will call the farmers
and the workers to help them out with the mourning.
Dr. Wiersbe writes “However, Amos
weaves into his lamentation three pleas to the people, urging them to return to
the Lord.” We will begin to look at
these in our next SD on the book of Amos.
9/22/2015
10:37 PM
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