After declaring
He would send “grasshoppers”
or “locusts” the people of Israel's “grass or crops”, Amos
called “upon O Lord GOD”
and asked him to “forgive, I beseech you: by
whom shall Jacob arise? for he is
small”. In chapter seven and verse four of
his prophesy, Amos share how “the Lord GOD
called to contend by fire” where we read:
Thus has
the Lord GOD showed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to
contend by fire,
and it
devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
The verse begins, “Thus
has the Lord GOD showed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to
contend by fire,...” Amos
began with the words, “thus has the Lord”
“the title spoken in place of Yahweh in Jewish display of
reverence” “GOD”
which refers to “Yehovah or Jehovah who is the existing One and the
proper name for the one true God” “showed unto me” or
“Amos looked at, inspected, perceived and considered”: “and,
behold” which means “”
“the Lord” or “the
title spoken in place of Yahweh in Jewish display of reverence”
“GOD” which refers
to “Yehovah or Jehovah who is the existing One and the proper name
for the one true God” “called”
which means “cried out, proclaimed and uttered in a loud sound”
“to contend” which
means “strive, make a complaint and quarrel” “by
fire” or “by flames or
supernatural fire”. Amos saw how God was going to “strive” with
Israel by “supernatural fire”.
The
verse continues, “...and
it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.” Amos
added, “and it devoured”
which means “burned up, consumed, slayed and destroyed” “the
great deep” which refers to
“the many, numerous, abundant and enough deep places and abyss of
the sea”, “and did eat up”
or “devour, consume, slay and destroy” “a part”
which means “a portion, share,
territory, tract and parcel”. When the Lord God “contended
by fire”, the result would be
a consuming of the “abyss” and a portion of the territory of
Israel.
When
we meditate upon these words of Amos, we understand Israel was judged
by “fire” or “drought” upon their land which would
carry away the “people of Israel” and devastate their land. Let
it be known, when God brings judgment upon a people, they shall
suffer greatly. Jesus Christ came to “seek and to save that
which was lost”, and those who are without Him shall know the
eternal judgment of God. We should take heed to this warning of Amos
to Israel because it is a foreshadowing of the punishment that awaits
those who reject Jesus. When God's “supernatural fire” falls,
devastation, destruction and ruin will be the destiny of those turn
away from Him.
Next
time we
see Amos write for the Lord God to “cease,
I beseech you” again,
so read ahead, and we shall join together then.
Until tomorrow…there is more…
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