AMOS

Amos Chapter 2

• Amos 2:1  Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime: 
• 2  But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet: 
• 3  And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD. 

The burning of the king of Edom may be referring to what is recorded in 2 Kings chapter 3. Apparently they hated this king so much that they offered him up as a sacrifice to one of their gods. Moab was a descendant of Lot the nephew of Abraham. They got into idolatry years later and worshiped these false gods.

The Moabites are the ones that had a king who tried to get Balaam to curse Israel. God refused to go along with that so they devised a plan by which the daughters of Moab would entice the men of Israel into fornication so they could tempt them to depart from the real God and worship the idols of Moab. They were enemies of Israel just like Edom was.

Judgment on Judah

• Amos 2:4  Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked: 
• 5  But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. 

This was fulfilled after the invasion of Babylon when Nebuchadnezzar took them captive. Also after their rejection of Jesus Christ they were completely destroyed as a nation in 70 AD and were scattered all over the world. Many settled around Germany and suffered during the Holocaust in the 1930s. After that God brought many of them back into their own land, and in 1948 even surrounded by those that hated them, they became a mighty nation again.

During the great tribulation that is yet future, they will again either build another temple or have one already built by that time according to a few bible theologians. The man of sin, called the anti Christ will attempt to deceive the Jewish people into a 7 year peace treaty into which he breaks after 3 1/2 years and tries to get rid of the Jewish people once and for all.

At that time Jesus will return with His faithful believers who were taken to Heaven with Him previous to this and Jesus will save the Jewish nation of Israel from any future attempt to destroy them again. They will get all their land back that was promised to Abraham and never lose it again but they have to recognize their king and Messiah, Jesus first. No one will ever harm Israel again after that.

• Zechariah 12:10  And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. 

This prophecy in Zechariah has not yet been fulfilled as of May 2025 but it will be.

Judgment on Israel

• Amos 2:6  Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; 
• 7  That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name: 
• 8  And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god. 

Here we see how Israel lost their nation even before the nation of Judah was ended by the king of Babylon. They despied the poor and sold them. They sold the righteous. They got into idolatry and sexual sins against the law of Moses. Sexual sins are still a sin in the sight of God, even those of us that are not under the law of Moses. This is a stumbling block to all of us. We must avoid what God has warned against. We can be forgiven through the power of the gospel but fornication is something that is an abomination in the sight of God. We must stay away from that and also idolatry. It will destroy our very souls if we do not turn away from it. I will add abortion, despising the poor, and taking away land from the innocent. We must be very careful how we treat or what we teach children also.

• Amos 2:9  Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. 
• 10  Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. 

Because of the sins of the Amorites and Canaanites, God gave their land to Israel. Now they did the same sins and lost their nation until 1948. They still have not gotten back all that was promised to Abraham.

• Genesis 15:18  In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: 

I know the world doesn't like this promise to Abraham but we really do not have the power to stop what God ordains. We can't fight against God. This will come to pass although it hasn't come yet in full.

• Amos 2:11  And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD. 
• 12  But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

The Nazarites were under a vow not to drink wine. Apparently the kings of Israel began to persecute the real prophets of God. Also drinking wine was strictly forbidden within the house of God or temple.

• Amos 2:13  Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
• 14  Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: 
• 15  Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself. 
• 16  And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD. 

The northern kingdom of Israel was lost before the southern kingdom of Judah by the invasion of Assyria. Judah was lost later by Babylon. They were restored again in part by the decree of Cyrus the Persian and other Persian kings and were called Israel but still under the power of the Empires that ruled. They lost the their nation fully in 70 AD until the latter days when God brought them back. But as of today they still have not returned wholly to God in full but they will.

• Matthew 24:29  Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: 
• 30  And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 
• 31  And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. 

The Coming of Christ is told of in Zechariah chapter 14 also. There are many places in the whole bible that tells of the latter day restoration of the nation of Israel. The gospel of Jesus though applies to all both Jews and Gentiles who will believe in Him. They will join Israel in the latter days and be with Jesus when He sets up His kingdom. Those saved before the latter day great tribulation will come back with Jesus Christ when He defeats the anti Christ and sets up His Kingdom.

Many as I also do, believe in the pre tribulation rapture of what we call the Church which is simply the called out ones that received Jesus Christ into their lives previous to this latter day tribulation that is also called, the time of Jacob's trouble. -DC

• Jeremaih 30:7  Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. 

Amos Chapter 3