SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/28/2015
12:28 AM
My Worship Time Focus: How the End is Coming
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Amos 8:7-14
Message of the
verses: “7 The LORD has sworn by the
pride of Jacob, "Indeed, I will never forget any of their deeds. 8 “Because
of this will not the land
quake And everyone who dwells in it mourn? Indeed, all of it will rise
up like the Nile, And it will be tossed about And subside like the Nile of
Egypt. 9 “It will come about in that day," declares the Lord GOD,
"That I will make the
sun go down at noon And make the earth dark in broad daylight. 10 “Then
I will turn your festivals
into mourning And all your songs into lamentation; And I will bring sackcloth on everyone’s
loins And baldness on every head. And I will make it like a time of mourning for an
only son, And the end of it will be like a bitter day.
“11 "Behold, days are coming,"
declares the Lord GOD, "When I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine for bread
or a thirst for water, But rather for hearing the words of the LORD. 12 “People will stagger from
sea to sea And from the north even to the east; They will go to and fro to seek
the word of the LORD, But they will not find it. 13 “In that day the beautiful
virgins And the young men will faint from thirst. 14 "As for those who swear by the guilt of
Samaria, Who say, ’As your god lives, O Dan,’ And, ’As the way of Beersheba
lives,’ They will fall and not rise again.’”
As we look at these eight verses we see four pictures of
judgment that will come upon Israel and as we look at them some of them remind
us of what the Lord is going to do during “The Day of the Lord” as described in
Revelation 6-19. The first picture is
that of an earthquake as seen in verse eight.
Amos speaks of the land rising like the Nile River which could raise as
much as 20 feet over its banks during the flood season. Next we see darkness that covers the land and
perhaps as Dr. Wiersbe writes this could be an eclipse for there was one in 763
BC. This does remind us of what happened
in the judgments on Egypt and also when the Day of the Lord comes as there is
darkness as a judgment there too. In
verse ten we see the picture of a funeral as I have highlighted the different parts
of that verse that speak of this, things like lamentations, mourning’s and
sackcloth being used. Lastly we see in
verses 11-14 the picture of judgment through famine, but in this section we not
only see the famine of food, or the lack of food and water, but also the famine
of not having the Word of the Lord.
Dr. Wiersbe concludes “What a tragedy to have plenty of ‘religion’
but no Word from the Lord! That means no
light in the darkness, no nourishment for the soul, no direction for making
decisions, no protection from the lies of the Enemy. The people would stagger like drunks from
place to place, always hoping to find food and drink for their bodies and
spiritual sustenance for their souls.”
I am totally surprised of how many people in our society
are living without the direction of the Word of God, but then again when the
morals in our country are at an all time low that should not surprise me at
all.
10/28/2015 12:46 AM
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