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*The Remnant and Restoration.*
[Amos ch.9]
*Intro:* Amos stopped prophesying in ch.7 – was kicked out of the temple in Bethel.
In ch.8 he had a vision of summer fruit, the end.
What comes after the end?
The end of the northern kingdom, also end time judgement – what is after the end?
It is not the end entirely – there is a /remnant/ out of which הוה makes a new beginning.
A seed from which a renewed Israel grows: what is after the end?: REMNANT AND RESTORATION* [OHP1]*.
I love the minor prophets, neglected because so full of judgement and gloom, but in them are the most wonderful prophecies of restoration.
They stand out like shining gems against the bleak background [diamonds on black velvet].
The preceding talk of judgement and wrath makes the prophecy of restoration so much the more wonderful.
Nine chapters, only in one is there mention of restoration.
All seems lost, hopeless – but God's plan hasn't failed or been discarded.
There will yet be a glorious Israel.
146 verses in Amos, 5 verses of glorious restoration.
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*Judgement decreed from heaven *[v1-10] - inescapable [v.1-4] *v.1 –* "I saw the Lord" – brakes on!
Back up – actually saw the Lord!
Awesome thing (Isaiah, Moses, John, Ezekiel).
יהוה Himself gives the order – Amos hears it decreed: inescapable judgement!
He sees יהוה at the place of mercy (the altar where sacrifice was made) but it had been defiled by idolatry, it became the place of judgement – they had rejected God's mercy.
יהוה had stationed Himself, in place, for action, for judgement - it was imminent!
about to be executed!
The temple of idolatrous worship would be struck down and destroyed.
יהוה had issued the command.
Idolatry was to be wiped out.
There would be an earthquake that would cause it to totter and collapse (cf.
v.5; 8:8).
The idolatrous worshippers would be slain.
Those not decapitated in the collapse of the temple would be slain by the sword of the invading army.
All would die!
There would not be one of them left to flee, no survivor to escape and become a refugee.
All idolaters will perish.
Those who do not worship Him in truth will be slain.
*v.2*- יהוה will relentlessly pursue them.
None will be overlooked.
None will escape.
Nothing they do will be able to spare them.
No matter where they go or what they do יהוה Himself will hunt them down, get them, and slay them!
There is no escape!
No way out!
No way to avoid יהוה’s hand of judgement.
Be it heaven or hell, one extreme or the other, it makes no difference, the highest height or the lowest depths יהוה will get you!
There is no escape!
He will bring them down.
This is the judgement יהוה decreed.
He personally carries it out:"/My/ hand ...." "/I/ will slay ..." It is unequivocally and indisputable יהוה’s doing.
"/I/ will search ..." (v.3) "/I/ will command ..." (v.4) "/I/ will set /My/ eyes ..." (v.4) [8x in 4 verses].
When יהוה acts in judgement, who will not fear?
For who can escape His hand?! Relentless, thorough, complete is His judgement.
*v.3* - Nothing we do can extricate us from the inevitable judgement *v.4* - Jews, characteristically, show great resource and ingenuity - and all stops are pulled out to avoid this calamity (very reminiscent of during the Nazi era).
They attempt to escape in the world of the dead, in heaven (v.2), in caves on Mount Carmel, even on the ocean floor!
(v.3).
But here is the cleverest of all - they deliberately exile themselves to the place יהוה is sending them anyway, going ahead of the enemies who will take the rest of the nation captive.
Why fight the inevitable? - rather cooperate, go along with it, adapt and make the most of it - if you fight, you will be destroyed but if you align yourself with the inevitable, you will survive.
Not so!
Even this crafty ruse יהוה sees through and personally commands the sword to slay them (just as those who cooperated with the Nazis and became their agents against their brothers finally ended up in the gas chamber with them).
יהוה has His eyes /against/ them for /evil/, not for good.
When this is the case - what can be done?
What fate could be worse than to have יהוה against you to cause you calamity?
This is the fate of those who reject Him and worship other gods.
from the Almighty [v.5,6]*v.5 *- It was יהוה, God Himself in all His might and authority who decreed this by His awesome and almighty Name! יהוה the LORD, יהוה of armies, will touch the land!
- and at His touch it melts, it quakes and all those who dwell in it will mourn at the calamity caused by the earthquake that comes when יהוה touches the land (cf.
8:8; 1:1).
When יהוה acts in judgement it is terrifying indeed!
Who will not fear Him?! *v.6* - Who is like Him?! Who can prevent Him doing what He has purposed?!
He builds the heights of heaven!
He established the heavens above the earth!
He call to the waters and pours them on the earth, filling the seas!
*יהוה** is His Name*!
Who will not worship and fall down before His awesome greatness!
Hallelujah! (*Revelation 15:1-4** */Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels who had seven plagues, which are the last, because in them the wrath of God is finished.
/Those who had not given way to the antichrist sang this: /“*G*reat and marvelous are Your works, O Lord God, the Almighty; righteous and true are Your ways, King of the nations!
“Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify Your name?
For You alone are holy; for all the nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed.”/)
no different to the rest [v.7,8] *v.7* – Israel thought they were God's special people, that they would be spared – but they were no different to the rest.
This almighty LORD would destroy every sinful kingdom, Israel not excepted (v.7-10).
His chosen nation had no special privilege in the moral sphere.
Israel was just like other nations - they thought they were special because יהוה had brought them from Egypt to this land, and hence they would never be removed.
But יהוה had also brought other peoples from other nations - the Philistines from Crete and the Arameans from Kir - they weren’t so unique after all!
If יהוה had brought certain people, He had also removed them from another land - therefore He could just as easily exile Israel from this land - and He would.
We tend to think it is emigration movements, social, political pressure, perhaps famines or conflict that cause a certain people to move.
We only see the human reasons - which are not the true cause at all.
It is the LORD’s doing (cf.
*Acts 17:26** * /He// made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation/) - *He brought them*!
He determines where a people dwell and He determined that Israel would go from the land into exile!
He would destroy it and remove it totally from the land!
*v.8** *- יהוה looks, He sees!
He knows our deeds!
(cf.
Psalm 94:4-11).
He saw the sin ridden kingdom of Israel and determined that He would utterly extirpate it - wipe it off the face of the earth.
a time of shaking [v.9-10; Hag 2:6,7; Heb 12:25-29] *v.9** *- יהוה would strike Israel, disturb and unsettle them – a time of shaking (cf.
*Haggai 2:6** */For thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Once more in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea also and the dry land.
/*Hebrews 12:26-29** * /And// His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.”
This expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire./).
The shaking would be literal: an earthquake – both in Amos' day and in the end times.
She would be shaken as grain (or soil) in a sieve (cf.
*Isaiah 30:27**,28 * /Behold, the name of the Lord comes from a remote place; burning is His anger and dense is His smoke; His lips are filled with indignation and His tongue is like a consuming fire;His breath is like an overflowing torrent, which reaches to the neck, to shake the nations back and forth in a sieve, and to put in the jaws of the peoples the bridle which leads to ruin.
/*Luke 22:31** */ Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat/) – speaks of testing and judgement, true heart revealed - the light, useless, chaff would be blown away - Israel would go into exile, scattering them among the nations - but the good grain (what is solid, the pebbles) would remain - there would be a remnant.
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