Published: September 8, 2024 | Speaker: Tim Freitag | Series: Amos - Daily Rising Early and Sending the Prophets - Part 18 | Scripture: Amos 9
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all right well we are come to chapter nine of Amos um I may have accidentally put some fear into you last week that you're not
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allowed to ask any questions L I miss my target of finishing the book please don't hesitate to interrupt me if you have a a question or a thought
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it is of uh little benefit I think to teach if we don't have a an understanding or address the questions that are lingering I want this to
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be very beneficial and um edifying to our minds and our hearts but I want to pick up here at chapter nine and um as we normally do I'm going to read the chapter through as we get started and then we will discuss the the
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details and points of it and again I'm reading out of The New American standard um the only real substitution I'm going to make this morning is as is my Habit to substitute Yahweh where it
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says Lord in small caps in your text um and as a note if you look closely verse one does not say Lord in small caps it's actually just Lord or
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master so I saw the Lord standing beside the Altar and he said Smite the capitals so that the thresholds will shake and break them on the heads of them all then I
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will slay the rest of them with the sword they will not have a fugitive who will flee or a refugee who will escape though they dig into shol from there my
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hand will take them and though they ascend to Heaven from there I will bring them down though they hide on the summit of Carmel I will search them out and take them from there though they conceal
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themselves from my sight on the floor of the sea from there I will command The Serpent and it will bite them though they go into captivity before their enemies from there I will command the
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sword that it will slay them and I will set my eyes against them for evil and not for
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good Yahweh master of armies the one who touches the land so that it melts and all those who dwell in it mourn and all of it rises up like the Nile and subsides like the Nile in Egypt the one who builds his upper chamber Chambers in
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the heavens and has founded his Ved Dome over the Earth he who calls for the Waters of the sea and pours them out onto the face of the Earth Yahweh is his
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name are you not as the sons of Ethiopia to me oh sons of Israel declares Yahweh have I not brought Israel up from the land of Egypt and the Philistines from cfor and the arameans from K behold the
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eyes of Lord Yahweh are on the sinful Kingdom and I will destroy destroy it from the face of the Earth nevertheless I will not totally destroy the house of
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Jacob declares Yahweh for behold I am commanding and I will shake the house of Israel among the Nations as grain is shaken in a seeve not a kernel will fall
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to the ground all the Sinners of my people will die by the sword those who say the Calamity will not overtake us or confront Us in that day I will raise up the
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Fallen Booth of DAV Avid and wall up its breaches I will also raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old that they may possess the remnant of
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Edom and all the nations who are called by my name declares Yahweh who does this behold days are coming declares Yahweh when the plow man will overtake the
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Reaper and The Treader of grapes him who SWS the seed when the mountains will drip sweet wine and all the hills will be dissolved all I also will restore the
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Captivity of My People Israel and they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them they will plant Vineyards and drink of their wine and make Gardens and eat their fruit I will also plant them
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on their land and they will not again be rooted out from their land which I have given them says Yahweh your God so we open the book with this Vision
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here and I um I want to back up slightly in our time frame here as we um examine this we have we have talked very little and I
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think it's a useful place to do this as we conclude the book about jeroboam I first because we are in this position because of jeroboam the first and there's some imagery out
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of how we got here in Amos at the time that amus is delivering this message to Israel we got here because of jeroboam the first and he did at the time uh in
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the the days after Solomon's death and his um his argument with
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rabo but what riab what jeroboam did was to set up this altar at bethl and establish this Temple if you look in first Kings and you don't necessarily have to turn there but in First Kings 12
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um we read the the section with the divided Kingdom but it tells us that after he had split them off and separated them he begins this campaign originally of idolatry now by the time
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we reach amos's day there seems to be some ad mixture or some mingling that the The Temple at bethl was co-opted that the in theory they're worshiping
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Yahweh but they probably also have some of their idolatry there but we read this in particular in First Kings 12:32 it tells us that after he had
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established these things I'm going to read in read in 31 he says and he made houses on high places and made priests from among all the people who were not the sons of Levi
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jeroboam instituted a feast on the 8th month of the 15th day of the month like the feast which is in Judah note this like the feast which is in
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Judah and he went up to the altar thus he did in bethl sacrificing to the calves which he had made and he stationed in bethl the priests of the high places which he had made and he
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went up to the altar which he made in bethl on the 15th day of the 8th month even in the month which he had devised in his own heart and he instituted A Feast for the sons of Israel and went up to the altar to burn the incense so
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jeroboam's sin here is to co-opt the religion in the service of politics that he has recognized we read in um
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26 it tells us as he's establishing these things jeroboam said in his heart now the kingdom will return to the House of David if the people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of Yahweh at
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Jerusalem then the heart of this people will eventually return to their lord even to rabam King of Judah and they will kill me and return to him so he recognizes that he needs to transplant
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them he needs to separate these people from the actual worship that was established in Jerusalem because if they keep going down to Jerusalem well then they're going to lose lose their national identity eventually the
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national identity that riab or that Jobo rather I should say wants them to have but significantly as he's doing this we see pictured three times there
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jeroboam himself walking up to the altar The Sovereign of Israel walking up to the altar to deliver the sacrifice and I think in think in the the Providence here well I should
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read one more before we do this is in the Providence of God a certain irony humor I don't know what you want to term it um First Kings 13 we
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read that Jobo is confronted about
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this first Kings 13:1 now behold there came a man of God from Judah to bethl by the word of Yahweh while jeroboam was standing at the altar to burn incense and he cried against the altar by the
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word of Yahweh and said oh altar altar thus says Yahweh Behold a son shall be born to the House of David Josiah by name and on you he shall sacrifice the
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priests of the high places who burn incense on you and human bones shall be burned on you there is more to that passage but I think it it's fascinating
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in some ways that here many years later we have another jeroboam who is king in Israel and another man of God who has come from Judah Judah to stand in bethl
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and to preach against them and I think the vision here that we read at the beginning verse one of chapter 9 The Sovereign standing at the
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altar if you were to do it as a movie cinematically you almost have jeroboam standing at the altar to sacrifice and you dissolve into the vision of Yahweh
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standing in that Temple prepared to strike the pillars it is that sort of inversion The Sovereign of Israel no The
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Sovereign The Sovereign one stands in the temple stands by the altar I saw the Lord standing beside the Altar and he said Smite the capitals um that
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effective blow you know we we it immediately calls to my mind the idea of um Samson in the temple of deeon right but Samson in the temple of Deon is at the lower end of the pillars pushing
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them so that they collapse here's Yahweh standing at a height with the ability to strike them at their very head at the top of them to strike them down through those thresholds absolutely shattering
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them and bringing the hole down on the heads of those false worshippers and so you have this this slaying that is coming out of the command of Yahweh Yahweh standing there
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prepared commanding destruction of this Temple um and I really do think it's it's intended to give us this this Echo back to the start of all of this with
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jeroboam I first um and this vision of of the sovereignty of God the counterfeit in his vision replaced by the real Yahweh and his power um the
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human aspects of it replaced by the Divine so when Yahweh comes to strike it is from these capitals of the pillars down to their
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foundations there's some interesting things happening here in terms of the structure we haven't talked a lot about the Poetry as we've gone through Amos there's some some fun things happening here and I'm not going to do all of it for you but the the structure of it is
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such that there is a 1 through four has a bracket
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I know I just said fun things in the poetry and wrote killing with the sword I recognize what's just happened here um there is a bracket here though in in chapter one um or in verse one I will
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slay all of them with the sword and when you come to the end of four um he says even if they go into captivity I will command the sword there to slay them so you have a little bit of a
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bookend um then you have this this repeated phrase here after he initiates this destruction and says they won't be able to flee they won't even have a fugitive to get away you pick up in two there's a
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repeated series here some of your uh versions may say if um if or though is reasonable I I prefer though it's slightly closer to the Hebrew but it's
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it's literally I think it's five in a row or is it four in a row here um let's see one two three four five right so so he has five
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and in Hebrew they really sit as lines of sort of one two three four
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it's a version of this it's sort of it's not perfectly formalized because it is poetic and one of these has um in verse two really the first one says my hand um which is accurate but it's very much a
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repeated pattern that will catch your ear in ear in the say it again has has I didn't notice that has my hand right so so verse two is is my hand but like the anti Psalm
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139 exactly it should immediately make your ears think of Psalm 139 um where can I go that the Lord won't see me he literally says if I if I descend to shol if I rise to the heights if I go to the
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heavens you won't I think Amos really had it in his head as he's delivering this um there's not a onetoone mapping but it is sort of the um the the dark version
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139 um it's very much that idea um and so they sit they they sort of run through here the the verses really line up as poetry in this sort of echoing repeat of
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if you go here I will find you if you go there my hand will will will grasp you and take you in additionally and my um my Hebrew pronunciation is is horrifically bad so I'm not going to try
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to do it for you but the verses here this whole section 1 through 4 is very uh cilent in the way it's written it has a number of places where it uses the
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Hebrew Shin which we call the sh um several of the words have prominent s sounds and it also has the the Sade which we don't use as much in
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the English um but it has the the the sort of combined TS sound there all through here so as you read through it in the Hebrew it really kind of hisses
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almost as you read through it's very sient in its um some some described it as musical to the ear which it would not be if I tried to read it for you I'm afraid but it's it's very much set as a
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one through four has a a distinct poetic feel to it not that the rest of Amos does not but it's it's a very much a walk um here and then he comes down
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through here um if they go into captivity before their enemies from there I will command the sword to slay them I will set my eyes against them for evil and not for good and if your eyes skip down to verse 8 he says behold the
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eyes of the Lord are on the sinful or the offending Kingdom and I will destroy it from the face of the Earth so you have in chapter
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n one has a sort of link to four and then four has a link to verse eight so you sort of have
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this doubled couplings here that that link these sections together as he moves through um just a little bit about the structure there but yes it should very
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much bring up Echoes of Psalm 139: 8-10 in your minds
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um so he has this this uh message for them this this threat to them that they will not Escape he will not let them uh make it even if he sends them into captivity even if they go in captivity
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uh before their enemies even there he will strike them down and slay them and then you have this section here and we've seen Amos employ this sort of thing before but he's underwriting the
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reality of what he's saying with the sovereignty of God so you get into verses 5678 he has this message for us about who God is and really I think it's
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underscoring he is he is uh telling you that this is coming to you and he is utterly capable of doing it he has full
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power and ability to accomplish what he has just told you he's going to do um the the god of armies comes up once more and I think again in amos's use of
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it it's significant because it is God the captain of the host who is able to send Invaders In fact we're going to get to there in the sort of uh question marks that people often have chapter
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seven trips or verse seven of chapter nine trips a lot of people up um confused a lot of the commentators uh one of the the HEB Hebrew Scholars that
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I employed went uh pages and Pages trying to sort this out in his own thinking um because he was deeply confused about why we're some of your your Bibles may say the kushites um
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which is where Ethiopia is today um it's very strange I don't think it's that strange but we'll get there in a second but he's underwriting here in in verse uh 56 and and the sort of start of seven
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the sovereignty of God so he he touches on every point of Creation in these verses he says um you know the one who touches the land all
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those who dwell in it more and so we're we're sort of encapsulating the whole of the people there it rises up like the Nile subsides like the Nile of Egypt well think back just into chapter 8 where we saw that picture of the heaving
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of the earth like an earthquake um the one who builds his his upper chambers in the heavens and founded his vaulted Dome of the earth so God's sovereignty in in the heavens and in the the heavenly
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spheres the celestial um calls for the Waters of the sea pours them out onto the face of the Earth Yahweh is his name so standing here in bethl preparing for its destruction he highlights God's
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total encapsulation of these things and then he brings it to their feet here in seven um and I think you know it it it distracts some people but I I don't think seven is particularly mysterious
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to me seven and8 he's effectively telling them um I'm as Sovereign over you as I am over every Other Nation um one of the things
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I found most helpful in in Muer's uh comment on it he said what he's getting at is basically just because you have a date or an event in your past doesn't mean you inherently have the cooperation
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of God he brings an analogy of uh apparently in his day there was a song uh that said uh because of Christmas day man can live with joy forever more something of this to this effect and he
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said just Christmas the Advent of Christ great wonderful glorious the specific event does not guarantee all men all of
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these things forever he's effectively almost sarcastically the the message of the Lord is you ain't that special because of the Exodus I brought all of
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these people up um all of these nations have such an event in their past basically and I'm Sovereign over each one of them uh all of these peoples had some national migration and God's hand
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was involved in it because nothing is beyond his sovereignty The Exodus doesn't make you immune to God's judgment just because it happened to your fathers it should bring in mind
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some of the things we've talked about before with the we're going to see it in the later prophets uh against Judah as they remain oh well we have the temple oh well we have Jerusalem that'll
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protect us what he's aiming at right here is the Exodus just because you had the Exodus that's not going to protect you against the wrath of God okay so it's it's not going to make you
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immune to his judgments if you're not living in in Conformity with what he has commanded um so you can bring any of the the sort of elements you could think
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back to the days of of um you know just before and even into David's day the the Ark of the Covenant oh we have the Ark of the Covenant we can move it here and there and you know it'll take down these
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this and that well now you don't even really know where the Arc of the Covenant is do we um and we we have the temple we have Zion it's not enough those tokens will
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not ward off God's judgment so a lot of people got a little weird about uh race and geography and all these things I don't think seven and8 needs to be that mysterious to us
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necessarily unless there's a particular question or comment there not consternation but also I was also brought in mind that earlier on and I Al one of the of these nations seems to be
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the slave trade yes and he's saying look I I bring Nations this is my business to move people around as I please yes find an irony there yes and and it will come
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up again here at the end um in verse 12 he says possess the remnant of Edom we're going to have to Circle back around to chapter one and talk about Edom again um and not not the cheese
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unfortunately so yes um he he's I I think it's again it's just underscoring the sovereignty of of God Over All Peoples all creation and and as he's
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saying um are you not as the sons of Ethiopia to me oh sons of Israel is I'm you are you are as much putty in my hands as they are that all of these
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people are under my control that's essentially Paul's messageus 17 speaking to a different type of people the Greeks who thought themselves
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to be special full of knowledge noses called them ignorant agnostic right he explained to them The God Who establishes the the times and the
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boundaries of all mankind right that that idea of absolute I do think it's very easy to fall into the idea that the
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god of the Old Testament is the god of Israel but certainly the other nations that we meet in the Old Testament considered Yahweh to be the god of Israel yes but is the god of gods
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there are no other gods but him so can there can be no other nations yeah that are not under his subject to him yes no I appreciate that because I I I think
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that's exactly what what Amos is doing here additionally there's an element here and we saw him deploy it earlier and we talked about this in The Exodus study a lot of times in the Old
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Testament God identifies himself as I Yahweh who brought you out of Egypt and here he's saying yeah I brought you out of Egypt and I could move anybody around
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okay it's not that special that it's going to preserve you from my wrath um so yes he he's he's almost um inverting their their pride on them like
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like you say of of Paul and and the Greeks there um so in 8B then um we we have
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this sort of um and this this is where one of the and I I haven't brought in textual criticism and we're not really going to bring in textual criticism but some of the Hebrew Scholars object that the second half of of verse 8 must have
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been inserted by an editor because the Lord has just said um starting in in verse one and two how there will be no Refugee left we will leave nobody alive you will not escape and then we get to
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the end of eight and some editor must have scrolled in the margin but he will totally destroy the house of Jacob I don't think that's it because we've seen this before with Amos and again chapter
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divisions I think the chapter divisions in Amos are generally fine we have to make breaks make breaks somewhere but if we've looked at our our how things hang together you've heard me
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say before you can really do chapters 1 and two 3 through six and I think 7 through
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9 hang as a section because go back to the Visions at the beginning of chapter 7 what were the Visions at the beginning of chapter 7 the Lord threatens total Destruction and Amos pleads for the
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house of Jacob that he may stand because he's so he's so small it's not an insertion it's not contrary to the message that we have heard thus far and he's going to clarify
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for us he is going to destroy the sinful Kingdom the the offenders in their midst he brings in here the message of the seeve it is an instrument of
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discrimination isn't it it um this is one of those places where translations of the Hebrew get a little bit thorny um do any of your versions here in verse 9
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he says I'm commanding I will shake the house of Israel among the Nations as grain is shaken in a SI or do do any of your say um Earth or or some other version here
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without as right so grain is not actually there and some of the translations um I think if you've got a King James version Maybe it will say something like a pebble um there is a word there that is probably
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Pebble or kernel or something there was a lot of philology written here that I read through and it doesn't really matter because the point is when you shake a seive something
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falls through something remains it's an instrument of discrimination just the same way that the plum line that we read in chapter 7 is an instrument of discrimination isn't it it's what measures up and what falls through and
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so whether you're trying to preserve the grain and shake out the chaff or if you're trying to get the Pebbles out of here and we're shaking the Earth through I don't care it's an instrument of discrimination is the point it doesn't
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wreck the Poetry to know one way or the other so an instrument of discrimination he's not pursuing the total Destruction of his people as we saw in those first
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uh Visions in in chapter 7 veres 1-6 the mind of God was not set to the total Destruction of his people he he both sovereignly judges and he sovereignly
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saves that he has both of them in his purpose and in his capacity and so he's separating the good from the bad this is not one that you see brought up a lot in
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terms of uh the things that we read I've never heard it brought up in relation to Revelation but I frankly think it's the same he's separating the wheat from the tears he's separating the sheep from the
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goats he's making a separation between Those whom he will save and Those whom he will condemn to destruction so instruments of uh
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discrimination I did like the phrase that mner had in his um he said if if you sort of look at this section one uh or chapter 7 through through chapter 9
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if um verses 1- six of chapter 7 is God saying no to the total Destruction of Israel verses 11 11 through 15 is God
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saying never to the total Destruction of Israel it's no never are there any questions on that section before I go on to the last bit
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here the sort of piece that we have here um I had pointed out in one of the very early studies and Aaron corrected me very rightly I had described this last
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piece as a separate Oracle it is not separated from the piece ahead of it it is all of a thought and it deres great power from the destruction that has just been described the Discrimination that
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is coming on them in the that day he says I will raise up the Fallen Booth of David um verse 11 of chapter 9 takes
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that vision from Beyond the moment of discrimination that we've just been examining the winnowing and destruction that they will endure takes us beyond that moment to the glories that await
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Those whom the Lord has purposed to save um and I think there are there's an interesting bit here I it's not as clear to me that it's intentionally that way
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in the Hebrew but I think you can
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identify basically each of these verses that remains has its own sort of heading if you like um so 11
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king talking about the booth of David um again significant based on the people to whom he is speaking isn't it because we've just examined the fact that Rab's that Rab's concern Jobo I keep getting them
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backwards I'm sorry jeroboam the First's concern when he split them off was that they will return to the House of David that they would go and be joined to that davidic Kingdom and so the davidic
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concern and we haven't spent a lot of time talking about this frankly we could we could probably do an entire other study on the davidic ideal that runs through the prophets um Chuck was
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talking on Thursday night about the sort of themes that we can identify throughout scripture and certainly there are aspects of it that come up earlier but a major major major component that
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runs through the prophets I think I'm going to risk it here and say without exception the prophets have some vision of the davidic ideal the davidic
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promise and Kingdom being renewed in the last day um that there is an ideal of the the House of David and so he says here uh I will raise up the Fallen Booth
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of David wall up its breaches raise up its ruin and rebuild as the days of old but again significant to the people to whom he's talking isn't it because what's happened in jeroboam I second's
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day well they reached those borders that that Solomon had established before um now we can go into the geography if you want there is still one item that um and
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it comes up here with with Edom in verse 12 um there is one section that David conquered that nobody besides David ever managed to conquer and that was Edom and significant portions of edom's territory
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but there's a there's an element here of of the sort of cleansing or clarifying of the jeroboam by jeroboam II by falsehood and
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by by pride and by struggle had has reclaimed the borders of that Kingdom that Solomon had and yet here the Lord
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is saying I will rebuild it I will make it as the days of old we've just gone through here excuting you for living effectively in a whitewashed
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tomb a nation that has the extents and the wealth and is completely Hollow and devoid of of actual peace and actual
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happiness and any real religion um in no small part because jeroboam the first and jeroboam thei
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have co-opted the religion as a tool of self-satisfaction haven't they that they have turned religion that they have turned Yahweh into a tool in their
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hands for political power and we have seen again and again in Amos that the people have followed their Leader's example and co-opted religion and co-opted the name of Yahweh for their
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own self-satisfaction and here Amos is promising those who are saved those who have been preserved through that process of winnowing will enjoy Real tangible
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substantial from the hand of the Lord the rebuilding the reestablishing as it was in the days of old he says
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then that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name declares Yahweh who does this does this um there are two things here one is the
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the sort of possession of the remnant of Edom there's uh I guess I'll put it this way the more modern slightly more sensitive versions
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of the commentators who are looking at the second half of this saying oh all the nations called in by my name great but now we have this this sort of very ugly possession of Edom like we're we're
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being very about it uh mner I thought had an interesting point here where he said um if you reflect on um when joab calls David to the Conquering of and I'm
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now I've lost the name of the city um there's one of the cities that rabah and he says come here before I break the gate down and if I conquer it it'll be called by my name so it's the idea that
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the one who conquers gets to put his name on it well here who is the one who conquers but Yahweh the Lord of hosts
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his names on all the nations and their possession of Edom is that final we're actually nailing down the extents of the de davidic Kingdom we will take these
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things but it's also a repudiation of Edom from the very beginning here where he indicts them
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here yes that's what I'm trying to find sorry I went right past it so thus says Yahweh for three transgressions of Edom and for for I will not revoke his punishment because he pursued his brother with the sword stifled his compassion so his anger tore continually
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maintained his Fury forever we talked a little bit there about the the contention between Edom and Israel and the fact that in no small part what edom's being indicted for there in in
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Amos is The Grudge that they held in perpetuity generation after generation that they were at odds at at enmity with each other and so here there is that
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element of the we will finally be at peace because that will be done and over with that they will have been destroyed and possessed Now by by Israel but I do
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think it's significant here I don't hear it talked about a lot and maybe I'm not reading the right books but the number of times frankly um in in the Old
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Testament prophets that there is a universal conception of it all the nations called by my name declar Yahweh who does this
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that there is a a vision now you see it sometimes you see it uh I think clearly spoken about in a lot of the text when we talk about Micah for example and the the sort of the mountain being raised up
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and all the nations will come in okay well that's very obvious but it's peppered throughout here isn't it we just saw it earlier in the chapter where he says I bring this one I I move that one I have moved these peoples around
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and now we have Yahweh extending that all these nations called by my name declares Yahweh that he will gather them in bring them in in this Vision that he
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has here of this this final day um and so it says behold days are coming declares Yahweh so so that was uh verse
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12 is the
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Nations and then verse 13 he he speaks of of the earth um well here I think there's an element here and and I don't want to overstate the
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case but in the pursuit of the davidic ideal throughout the prophets there is a conception of the greater David the David who will come the son of David it's not explicitly spelled out here other than in the rebuilding of the
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booth of David but I think there's an element of it there um
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wealth I think it will will bring to your mind the descriptions of the promised land that are originally given flowing with milk and honey we have here um the the
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uh the plowman will will overtake the reaper the Treader of grapes him who SWS the seed the mountains will drip sweet wine the hills will be dissolved he's describing really that that abundance of the land will be so intense that um the
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the the people who need to make the preparations for the next year's crop have caught up because the people who are gathering the stuff in can't gather it in fast enough we can't even get it
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all in in the time that we have for for harvesting it's already time to do the new planting or To Tread The Grapes or or rather to to seed the new seeds but before we finish treading the grapes and
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Gathering these in there's so much of it it is I think an image of
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it's the inverse of what's threatened or not threatened but condemned upon Adam That by The Sweat of your your brow you will bring forth your food from the
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ground he's basically saying it's going to be in full abundance it will be impossible for you to gather it all in it will just be overflowing with the amount that we're giving here I will
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restore the Captivity of my people in verse 14 um and they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them they will plant their Vineyards and drink their wine
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they will make Gardens and eat their
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chapter five um wherein he he tells them as he part of the destruction
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better ah okay verse uh 11 and and well really verse 11 therefore you impose heavy rent on the poor and extract a tribute of grain from them though you have built houses of well hun Stone you won't live in them and you have planted
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Pleasant Vineyards yet you will not drink their wine uh I thought there was a reference in here also to the garden but I'm missing it right now
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uh anyhow so it's the reversal of this threat is it not it's that they will be able it's sort of the end of their
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frustrations the frustrations that he has condemned them to in chapter 5 that the things you build the stuff you plant the things you work on you won't get to see the fruits of your labor you will not enjoy the effort that you have put in here he's saying you'll get it the
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things you work on you will receive them you will be rewarded in this way and then finally you have the
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establishment this sort of final stability and rootedness
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that he will bring them in here and he will establish them I will plant them on their land and they will not again be rooted out from that land which I have given them says Yahweh your god um and I
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have I have put here uh in the Hebrew it's just the three words and and again I've mentioned it in earlier ones and I've got a little Fancy with it here but it's literally the Amar is a declaration
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and he caps this message with this Amar Yahweh eloha a declaration of Yahweh your God period end of book um are there
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any particular questions about that or or thoughts I have a com Israelites are yes and God is
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promising vineard careful yes that's very good yeah because he and at that point they are
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they are being told that they will take The Vineyards and the houses of another and that they will receive them as part of their inheritance of the land that's that's an excellent point thank you I thought of that other thoughts or
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questions as we close this morning oops Yeah I we go I'm just veryu by
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yes absolutely and and I didn't bring it out this morning but again I do think there's there's that element of there's a lot of argument but in that day well what day um the day of the Lord
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there's that that question mark when you read through and you hear in that day or the day of the Lord look out for those terms but yes that final but but you're you're also correct in that I think you
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see it here in Amos very clearly the Lord is not pleased to have any AD mixture of iniquity the destruction is necessary for the rebuilding that he will shake off those
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things before he rebuilds that's the message of Jeremiah the Exile after ex idea of shaking and then
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rebuilding that which remains is yeah that runs all the way through scure culminating of Jesus Christ yes that's a
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good point and we we've put it up a couple of times and again you could almost do a whole another study um on Remnant theology because in no small part The Remnant is not merely
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be careful how I say this it's not merely that the Lord has preserved them from destruction it's that the Lord will use them as he rebuilds and that is significant and and you see that here I
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think again there was some arguing in the texts as I read about this you know s first half of nine is all about how there will be no one left and then he sort of goes on with this I will not
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completely destroy I think it makes perfect sense which is to say he is going to preserve a seed he is going to preserve that that kernel and rebuild his kingdom with it but he will leave no
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chaff in it he will allow no ad mixture to enter this so we'll finish our look at Amos there
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um I would ask if if you have the time at all I think it would be helpful again not least of all because of the number of things we've referred back to here uh this morning just read Amos once through
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at a out a go all together um I I said before chapter before chapter divisions I think in Amos they're not in particularly distracting places like they are in some book
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books but there's so much continuity of thought in it you could almost make an argument that Amos could have given this as one message delivered at at a whole I think it would be very beneficial to
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read and see the the encompassed message of the Lord there um but I'm not going to do it in your hearing this morning we're out of time so let's close in a word of prayer as we go to
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worship father we do thank you for your promises we thank you that that you have not promised only to destroy but to rebuild we do pray that you would search us and try us and root out any wicked
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way that is within us make us aware of the things that beset us that we would strive as we have read in your scriptures to wage Warfare against the
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sins in the flesh but that we do so not of our own power not by anything that we possess but by the equipping that you have given us the strength of the holy spirit that same strength that raised
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Jesus Christ from the dead is available to us by the indwelling of your Holy Ghost and so it is on him that we lean and by him that we plead these things we ask we beg that you would be with us
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this morning that you would make us aware of your presence that you would be anointing our worship and making it acceptable in your sight that it would have its appointed work to magnify your
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name to glorify you and to edify our hearts and our minds and our our in enire being we ask these things in Jesus name amen