Who do You Think You Are? (Amos 1-5)

 Almighty roars over all nations. At His voice the earth trembles. All people are under His Law for they are His creation, so he may demand  his Justice on all as D. David Garland in his book “Amos:: Bible Study Commentary wrote this:

Since the Creator is a moral being, those created in His image were also. Therefore, every moral standard set by the Creator was to be observed by every man whether a citzen of a covenant nation or not. Any man or any nation ignoring God's standard or refusing to meet it was placed under judgment.” (pg.21:Zondervan Publishing House, 1966)

Neither, Beelzebub not commerce can save us. We have sinned and deserve the judgment of the Holy One, He he is also merciful and does not give us everything we deserve immediate ly giving us time to repent as John Calvin wrote in COMMENTARIES ON THE TWELVE MINOR PROPHETS Vol. 2 this:

Let us learn from this place, that God, whom the world regards as too cruel, when he takes vengeance on sins, shows really and by sure proof the truth of what he declares so often of himself in Scripture, and that is, that he bears long and does not quickly take vengeance: though men are worthy to perish yet the Lord suspends his judgments. (PG 150 Owen)

1 But, there is a limit to grace I the physical realm. God still must judge sin. It is said the  second Temple fell for baseless hatred. The blood cries of the innocent unborn demand justice on those who chose abortion. HURRICANS, PLEGUE AND RECECSSON ARE GIVEN TO BRING REPENTANCE.

We Children of of the Living God have committed crimes against the Holy one also. We lost our love for scripture. Sinai is the second freedom. Obedience to God’s commands are no longer important to us. Justice is for sale, having divorced the truth. Our gluttony has caused us to forget the importance of giving to the poor. Deviant sex permeated the people of the Almighty. Rejecting the Lord for bribes, we are more responsible because of our sin as Dr. Thomas L. Constable wrote in his “Notes on Amos” this:

 God’s people are greatly blessed people. Unfortunately, many Christians conclude that because “there is therefore now no condemnation in Christ Jesus,” there is also no accountability to Christ Jesus. We must all stand before the judgment seat of Christ to receive payment for what we have done with the light that God has given us (Rom. 14; 1 Cor. 3; 2 Cor. 5).(pg13 2023 edition)

Can two walk together nonsensical? Or, so traps trigger themselves? See how the West has already become chaotic? God will destroy the West so that only rubble remains. Christendoms crimes are numerous. Monuments of our greatness, the Lord will destroy.

 

            Wealth weakens a country from within. It destroyer national morals. Poverty becomes the oppressor. The rich despise the divine as Jacob, the Messiahs’s brother, gave this reproof in James 2:6-7, “But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you and personally drag you into court? Do they not blaspheme the fair name by which you have been called?”John Calvin wrote later in COMMENTARIES ON THE TWELVE MINOR PROPHETS Vol. 2 this:

….and it was right that they should be thus roughly handled, because through fatness, as it is usually the case, they had contracted dullness; for when men abound in riches, when they become great in power, they forget themselves and despise God, for they think themselves beyond the reach of danger. (PG. 218 Christian Classics Ethereal Library )

 

The Western Church has become a social club. It is not God's house. We build edifices to our moral standards and sin. The Lord's standards are lost so we sin in worship as Warren W. Wiersbe wrote in "Amos," in The Bible Exposition Commentary/Prophets, "It's as though a pastor today said to his congregation, 'Sure, go ahead and attend church,but by attending, you're only sinning more.…Your heart isn't serious about knowing God or doing His will. Since it's all just playacting.'"(p. 353:Christian Book; 2007).

The Lord gives difficulty, but we continue to sin. He tries drought but we do not return to Him. Coronaviris ravaged the land, and we would not repent. We need the The Plagues of Exodus . The Almighty will mow down our youth and give us up to ourselves as Romans 1:28-29a  “And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; ...”  The attributes of the Mystical YHVH are pitying the sinner, gracing the repentant, ruling, sympathizing to suffering, loving concern, long-suffering, abounding in mercy, verifying, remembering human merit, understanding, forgiving, atoning, and seeing guilt.

The West has fallen. It is only an issue of time . If as individuals we turn to the Lord, we may live as the prophet Amos wrote in Amos 5:4,  “For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel,  Seek Me that you may live.” NASU Love good and do what is right.

 Those who seek the second coming are fools. Those who seek the second coming overlook the severity of the judgment they will face. It is a day of weeping not rescue.

Our holiness does not impress the Lord. God did not create Christmas, Easter, Sunday, ect. If you hate your brother, the Lord will not take your offering. The Lord only wants love and His Torah to be kept, as amos also said in Amos 5:24 “But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.” KJV So fall the West.