SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/14/2015
11:19 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Death
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Amos 6:9-10
Message of the
verses: “9 And it will be, if ten
men are left in one house, they will die. 10 Then one’s uncle, or his
undertaker, will lift him up to carry out his bones from the house, and he will
say to the one who is in the innermost part of the house, "Is anyone else
with you?" And that one will say, "No one." Then he will answer,
"Keep quiet. For the name of the LORD is not to be mentioned.’”
We are looking at the first sub-section to the fourth
main point from Dr. Wiersbe’s outline on the sixth chapter of Amos. He has entitled this fourth main point “Woe
to the Impudent,” and we looked at the introduction in our last SD and read at
the end of the introduction “These impudent people, who rejected God’s warning,
would one day face three judgments,” and this first judgment would be death as
we read in verses 9-10.
The situation that Amos is describing here is
hypothetical and he does this to emphasize the terrors that were about to come
from the invading Assyrians who would invade Samaria. Amos may have been thinking about what he
wrote in 5:3 “3 “For thus says the Lord
GOD, "The city which goes forth a thousand strong Will have a hundred
left, And the one which goes forth a hundred strong Will have ten left to the
house of Israel.’” Out of the hundred
would be ten left and once they were this small Amos may be describing that
they go into a house, however the pestilence would catch up with them, and they
would die. Dr. Wiersbe writes “If a
relative came to burn the bodies (the safest thing to do in war when disease is
rampant), anyone in the house guarding the bodies would deny there were others
there who also might die in the plague.
But the disposal of the dead bodies wouldn’t be a ‘religious’ occasion,
for the people would be afraid to even mention the name of the Lord lest He
become angry and send more judgment.”
Destruction (Amos 6:11-13): “11 For behold, the LORD is going to command
that the great house be smashed to pieces and the small house to fragments. 12
Do horses run on rocks? Or does one plow them with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into
poison And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood, 13 You who rejoice
in Lodebar, And say, "Have we not by our own strength taken Karnaim for
ourselves?’”
Proverbs 16:18 has something to say about what is going
on here: “Pride goes before destruction,
And a haughty spirit before stumbling.”
In verse eleven Amos is speaking about the summer houses that the rich
people have and they like the regular houses will be destroyed. When the Babylonians came into Jerusalem they
even burned down the temple of the Lord.
We have to believe that this was done because the Lord commanded it to
be done, and the reason was the Israel and Judah both were breaking the
covenant with the Lord that He made with them when they came out of Egypt.
We have two more sub-points
to look at in this section and then we will go forward to look at the last
three chapters as we conclude our study in the book of Amos.
10/14/2015 11:36 PM
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