SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/25/2015
10:24 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
The End is Coming
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Amos 8:1-3
Message of the
verses: “1 Thus the Lord GOD showed
me, and behold, there was a basket of summer fruit. 2 He said, "What do
you see, Amos?" And I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the
LORD said to me, "The
end has come for My people Israel. I will spare them no longer. 3 “The
songs of the palace will turn to wailing in that day," declares the Lord
GOD. "Many will be the corpses; in every place they will cast them forth
in silence."”
In today’s SD on the book of Amos we are looking at the
second main point in the outline from Dr. Wiersbe which will cover the entire 8th
chapter as he entitles this point “The Prophet Declares.
As we begin this section we remember that Amos had just
gotten a difficult time from Amaziah and not the Lord will receive another
message from the Lord. Dr. Wiersbe
writes “for it’s just like the Master to encourage His servants after they’ve
been through tough times (see Acts 18:9-11; 27:21-26; 2 Tim. 4:16).”
When our Lord Jesus Christ was on earth he would use
different parables to bring forth truth that He wanted to teach us, things like
the seed that fell on different soils is an example. Well in this section God uses summer fruit to
make a point and when the fruit in the summer is ripe it is time to eat it, and
now since the sinfulness of Israel was “ripe” in His eyes it was time for
judgment. Dr. Wiersbe writes “The Hebrew
word translated ‘summer’ or ‘ripe’ in verse 1 (qayis) to the word translated ‘end’
in verse 2 (qes). It was the end of the harvest for the
farmers, and it would be the end for Israel when the harvest judgment came (see
Jer. 1:11-12 for a similar lesson). ‘the
harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved’ (Jer. 8:20).”
As I have studied the attributes of God I find that
long-suffering is one of them, but in the case of Israel, long-suffering had
turned into His attribute of justice and now they would be judged. The songs in the temple will be songs of
mourning and not happy songs as they were before. In the NASB we see that the songs were in the
palace, and so in the palace of Bethel there would be sad songs to be
sung. Dr. Wiersbe concludes that “people
would be so overwhelmed that they would be unable to discuss the tragedy. Silence would reign in the land.”
10/25/2015 10:42 PM
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