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The Book of Amos Chapter 9:1-15

[Aired February 1, 2025]

This is the final chapter in this study of Amos. 

Our Lord is merciful to not utterly consume His children after the sins He caused them to perform lest they become overly offended, discouraged, and taken.

Isa 45:5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
Isa 45:6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
Isa 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil [Hebrew: ra]: I the LORD do all these things.

Pro 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked [Hebrew: râshâ] for the day of evil. 

1Sa 16:14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him. 

1Sa 19:9  And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his hand. 

Lam 3:18  And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: 

Mic 1:12  For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem. 

Exo 23:29  I will not drive them out [the giants and evil spirits in our land within] from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
Exo 23:30  By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. 

Such is our Lord’s mercy in giving us an experience of evil at the hands of his murderous servant, Satan, after which Christ saves us following our acknowledgment of our sins and, by his strength, brings us to our safe haven in him.

Psa 107:23  They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; 
Psa 107:24  These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep. 
Psa 107:25  For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. 
Psa 107:26  They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
Psa 107:27  They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end. 
Psa 107:28  Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. 
Psa 107:29  He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. 
Psa 107:30  Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven. 
Psa 107:31  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! 
Psa 107:32  Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

In the first ten verses of this last chapter in Amos, to the unspiritual eye, it seems that the Lord is mercilessly negative; however, his Elect see the chastisements positively, which starkly contrasts them from their former Babylonian nature of hiding, accusing and excusing themselves then always pricked with a guilty conscience, while in that sickly state, never coming to the knowledge of the truth. Of course, the Elect of God knows that the destruction of Israel is the Old Man within, gloriously sacrificed, slaughtered upon Christ, his altar, and are thankful for the evil he exacted and the consequence of the sword never leaving his house.

2Sa 12:9  Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 
2Sa 12:10  Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.

Col 1:19  For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
Col 1:20  And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Col 1:21  And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 
Col 1:22  In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: 
Col 1:23  If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister; 
Col 1:24  Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church
Col 1:25  Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; 
Col 1:26  Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 
Col 1:27  To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 

Significations:

The Destruction of Israel

Amo 9:1  I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel [‘Bulb, knob, capital’ = one’s head, the centre of understanding] of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. 
Amo 9:2  Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: 

A “lintel” in doorway construction is a major supporting beam of wood, steel or stone immediately above the door supported by its side posts the upper weight of the building. In scripture, it symbolises our head and Christ.

No greater heavenly smiting and earthquake shaking of the lintel is there than our Lord’s smiting of our spiritual lintel between our ears of understanding with his blood from the cross. That smiting inspires us to emulate our Husband, filling up behind similar afflictions though spiritually he physically endured, now in our bodies (Col 1:24). Though most impudently, we often don’t soberly shake in reverential fear of our Lord and husband wholly, like the emblematic whore we are escaping.

Exo 12:20  Ye shall eat nothing leavened [today, the Lord’s undefiled word]; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread. 
Exo 12:21  Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. 
Exo 12:22  And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts [our eyes and ears of understanding] with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning [remain in the Lord for the rest of our lives into the First Resurrection]. 
Exo 12:23  For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians [“slay the last of them with the sword of his word”, within]; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. 
Exo 12:24  And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. 

If we are deemed the ‘very Elect’ (Mat 24:24), we will gladly see that we do not wish to ‘flee away’ from our Lord’s chastisements since, and if we, like Adam, continue to ‘hide’ and attempt to escape from acknowledging our sins, we will desiccate in his midday sun of truth, undelivered ⎯ represented at a later date in a perceived hotter furnace of truth, the Lake of Fire.

Jer 3:13  Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD. 

Thankfully, we cannot hide from Christ’s glorious wrath while we are concealed in a hole, clefts in the rocks, or caves in the mountains since he is mighty and powerful to draw out Leviathan on our behalf from within (Rev 6:15-17).

Psa 139:6  Your knowledge is beyond my comprehension; it is so far beyond me, I am unable to fathom it.
Psa 139:7  Where can I go to escape your Spirit? Where can I flee to escape your presence? 
Psa 139:8  If I were to ascend to heaven, you would be there. If I were to sprawl out in Sheol, there you would be. 
Psa 139:9  If I were to fly away on the wings of the dawn, and settle down on the other side of the sea, 
Psa 139:10  even there your hand would guide me, your right hand would grab hold of me. 
Psa 139:11  If I were to say, “Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,” 
Psa 139:12  even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you. 

Job 41:1  Can you draw out the Leviathan with a hook, or hold down his tongue with a cord? 
Job 41:2  Can you put a reed rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw with a thorn? 
Job 41:3  Will he multiply pleas for help to you? Will he speak soft words to you? 
Job 41:4  Will he make a covenant with you? Will you take him for a servant for ever? 
Job 41:5  Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your maidens? 
Job 41:6  Shall your companions bargain over him? Shall they divide him among the merchants? 
Job 41:7  Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fishing spears? 
Job 41:8  Lay your hand on him, think of the battle; you will never do it again. 

Amo 9:3  And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel [our ‘lintel], I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them: 

Leviathan’s God-controlled bites and our subsequent pleading for our Lord’s delivery are vital to humble us to grow in grace, knowledge and Christ’s faith.

Num 21:8  And Jehovah said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole. And it shall be when everyone that is bitten, when he looks upon it, he shall live. 

Psa 44:2  You drove out the nations with Your hand, and planted them; You brought evil on peoples and cast them out.
Psa 44:3  For they did not get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but it was Your right hand, and Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them. 

Paradoxically to the former Babylonian within, the evil given to chastise us is for our good.

Amo 9:4  And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
Amo 9:5  And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land [afflict our bodies], and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt. 
Amo 9:6  It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven [including Babylon within, a mighty tower, only to smash it down], and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name. 

In verse five, we begin our journey as the ‘land’ that will, for us, melt at his fiery word and in bewildering fearfulness for the entire World of our brothers and sisters; similarly, in the Lake of Fire, a type of baptism of fire in the Israelites crossing of the Red Sea; “the flood of Egypt”.

Jer 31:34  And they shall no more teach each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Jehovah. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sins no more. 
Jer 31:35  So says Jehovah, who gives the sun for a light by day and the laws of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who divides the sea when its waves roar; Jehovah of Hosts is His name; 
Jer 31:36  if those ordinances depart from Me, says Jehovah, the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me forever. 

Mat 3:11  I indeed baptise you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptise you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: 
Mat 3:12  Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. 

Amo 9:7  Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor [original home of the Philistines] and the Syrians from Kir? [a place in Mesopotamia = ‘wall’]

Israel and formerly, we being the children of the Ethiopians, Egyptians, Philistines, Babylonians and Old Israel, denotes our Gentile Christian origins, the Great Whore from whom we were conceived, confirmed in these next verses:

Hos 2:4  And I will not have mercy on her sons, for they are the sons of adulteries. 
Hos 2:5  For their mother has prostituted herself. She who conceived them has done shamefully. For she said, I will go after my lovers who give my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink [her own clothing representing her self-righteousness]. 

Eze 18:20  The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Eze 18:21  But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Eze 18:22  All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. 
Eze 18:23  Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live? 
Eze 18:24  But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die. 

In the Old Covenant, righteousness was attained by keeping the Law; what a person did in accordance with the Law caused him to be right with God; it was the person’s righteousness, self-righteousness, and imagined free will to do or not to keep the Law. 

Php 3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith

Amo 9:8  Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD. 
Amo 9:9  For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
Amo 9:10  All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

The negative of grain, a seeded Elect of God not falling to the earth, is him not dying in the earth of his body to bring forth increase and meat for his Lord’s table. Positively, our Lord guarantees that if indeed we are the ‘very Elect’, he will bring us from birth to the fullness of spiritual maturity. Hence, not the least grain will fall upon the earth and be lost. Since mankind are sinners and everyone, inclusive of the Elect, will die by the sword of God’s word, we harken back to the earlier statement that we do have a way of escaping our wretched corruption in and through Christ without being destroyed forever as most Christian harlot churches teach. Those statements are verified in the next verses:

The Restoration of Israel

Amo 9:11  In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old: 
Amo 9:12  That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this. 

Increasingly today, as the Great Whore (out of which comes the Bride) half-sees the end of her reign, she, represented by Zionism and the artificial nation called Israel, becomes more strident, vocalising that they are God’s chosen people and the rest of the World are cattle for slaughter, goyim serving the Jew’s imaginary temple within themselves possibly soon to be reconstructed on the site of the old temple mount. While it is true that they, too, will ultimately be saved, as though fire, Amos 9:11-12 is speaking of the Lord’s very Elect, his spiritual Jews, the remnant that will rule the World, who is symbolised by Edom.

Rev 12:17  And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Rev 3:8  I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
Rev 3:9  Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. 
Rev 3:10  Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the World, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

1Co 3:13  Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
1Co 3:14  If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
1Co 3:15  If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

That ‘open door that no man can shut’ spoken of in Rev 3:8, for the most part, is represented in the next verse, illustrating the mighty flood of our Lord’s fiery word baptising the Bride in his truth. The full richness of his words is represented by tender grapes, harvested grain and cup of our Lord’s wine melting our stubbornly remaining hills within.

Rev 16:19  And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
Rev 16:20  And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. 

Amo 9:13  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. 

Jer 49:12  For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink [Gentile Christianity and the World] of the cup have [will] assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it. 

Jer 25:27  Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
Jer 25:28  And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.

As cryptically depicted in the next verses, led by the chosen spiritual Jews, the entirety of humanity conceived from Adam to the end of the One Thousand Year reign will represent the rich harvest of souls in the Lake of Fire.

Amo 9:14  And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. 
Amo 9:15  And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God. 

Jer 31:34  And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

And, led by the Bride of Christ, notice that she is already seated with Christ, her husband in heaven since the First Resurrection,

Rev 21:2  And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Rom 11:26  And so all Israel [representive of the entirety of mankind] shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 

Lord God, hasten that day!

Amen.