SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/14/2015
10:41 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
Obstinacy PT-1
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Amos 4:6
Message of the
verses: “6 "But I gave you also
cleanness of teeth in all your cities And lack of bread in all your places, Yet
you have not returned to Me," declares the LORD(NASB95) “6 "You know, don’t you, that I’m the
One who emptied your pantries and cleaned out your cupboards, Who left you
hungry and standing in bread lines? But you never got hungry for me. You continued
to ignore me." GOD’s Decree (Message).”
We begin to look at the last eight verses in the fourth
chapter of Amos and one thing we need to notice in these verses that five time
we see the phrase “yet you have not returned to Me.” Once again I want to compare what was going
to happen to Israel during the lifetime of Amos with what will happen during
the seven years of the Tribulation period as described in Revelation chapters
6-19 as God sends twenty-one different judgments on planet earth and we read
similar things when some of these judgments are given to those on planet earth
and the people know that it is God who is doing this, but yet, like Israel in
this passage they will not turn to the Lord and repent of their sins. In the case of Israel during the time of Amos
the people did not stop practicing their false worship of the Lord. We read what the Lord has to say about this
in Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord’, shall enter the
kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.’”
We have mentioned in earlier SD’s when we studied the
other OT prophets and also the books of the Law that some of the covenants that
the Lord made with Israel were conditional, like what we read in Deuteronomy
chapters 27-29, and if Israel did not obey those covenants then the Lord said
He would punish them by taking them out of their land. “19 "I call heaven
and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and
death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live,
you and your descendants, 20 by loving the LORD your God, by obeying His voice,
and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days,
that you may live in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, to give them’ (Deut. 30:19-21).”
Famine (Amos 4:6):
“6 "But I gave you also cleanness of teeth in all your cities And
lack of bread in all your places, Yet you have not returned to Me,"
declares the LORD (NASB95).”
When we look at this verse in the NASB we see the phrase “cleanness
of teeth,” and this speaks of not having any food, which was a part of the
judgment on them by God as He sends the Assyrians to judge them. Now a part of the covenant that God gave with
Israel was that if they obeyed Him they would have abundant food, but since
they did not obey Him they had no food to eat.
Dr. Wiersbe writes that “You would think that this would move people to
confess their sins and return to God, but Israel did not return to God.”
9/14/2015 11:00 PM
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