Never allow anyone to tell you not to read the Old Testament. God Himself spoke many times about what we should look for in these end times in Old Testament writings. After God sent His children into captivity, the nations, and surrounding nations went to far in what they did, and had done to the Israelites, and He is watching what is going on with His children today. Here God names the nations, and tells what His plans are for them. Also understand this. If Gods word seems to be a little bit much for you, then just maybe God is not for you. God demands that you take the necessary time in His word to understand what it is that He want you to know in order that you may have the ability to pass this knowledge on in seed form. The time is out for one verse revolving Revs. Get into His word and study to show yourself approved. (Amos was a herdsman, and engaged in agriculture. But the same Divine Spirit influenced Isaiah and Daniel in the court, and Amos in the sheep-folds, giving to each the powers and eloquence needful for them. He assures the twelve tribes of the destruction of the neighbouring nations; and as they at that time gave themselves up to wickedness and idolatry, he reproves the Jewish nation with severity; but describes the restoration of the church by the Messiah, extending to the latter days. Judgments against the Syrians, Philistines, Tyrians, Edomites, and Ammonites. - GOD employed a shepherd, a herdsman, to reprove and warn the people. Those to whom God gives abilities for his services, ought not to be despised for their origin, or their employment. Judgments are denounced against the neighbouring nations, the oppressors of Gods people. The number of transgressions does not here mean that exact number, but many: they had filled the measure of their sins, and were ripe for vengeance. The method in dealing with these nations is, in part, the same, yet in each there is something peculiar. In all ages this bitterness has been shown against the Lords people. When the Lord reckons with his enemies, how tremendous are his judgments!) Amos 1:1 The words of Amos (Amos = burden a prophet of the Lord who prophesied in the northern kingdom; native of Tekoa in Judah near Bethlehem and a shepherd by trade), who was among the herdmen (sheep-raiser, sheep-dealer, sheep-tender) of Tekoa (a town in the hill country of Judah near Hebron built by king Rehoboam of Judah; birthplace of Amos a wilderness area where king Jehoshaphat of Judah defeated the people of Moab, Ammon, and Mount Seir), which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. ( Zechariah 14:5 You will flee to the valley in the mountains, for the valley in the mountains will reach to Atzel (Azal = proximity: he has reserved a place near Jerusalem, site presently unknown (CLBL) n pr m Azel = reserved a Benjamite descendant of Saul and Jonathan). You will flee, just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uziyah king of Yhudah. Then ADONAI my God will come to you with all the holy ones.) Amos 1:2 And he said , The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn , and the top of Carmel shall wither. 3 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, (These nations did things over and over again.) I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead (Gilead = rocky region a mountainous region bounded on the west by the Jordan, on the north by Bashan, on the east by the Arabian plateau, and on the south by Moab and Ammon; sometimes called Mount Gilead or the land of Gilead or just Gilead. Divided into north and south Gilead a city (with prefix Jabesh) the people of the region n pr m son of Machir and grandson of Manasseh father of Jephthah a Gadite) with threshing instruments of iron: 4 But I will send a fire (Hebrews 12:29 For * our God is a consuming fire.) into the house of Hazael (Hazael = one who sees God a king of Syria; sent by his master, Ben-hadad, to the prophet Elisha, to seek a remedy for Ben-hadads leprosy; apparently later killed Ben-hadad, assumed the throne, and soon became engaged in a war with the kings of Judah and Israel for the possession of the city of Ramoth-gilead ), which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad (Ben-hadad = son of [the false god] Hadad the king of Syria, contemporary with Asa of Judah the son of Hazael, also king of Syria). 5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven (Aven = vanity a name used contemptuously for the following places of idolatrous worship a city in Egypt, possibly On (Eze. 30: Bethel with its calf worship (Hos. 10:, A town or region in Syria (Amos 1), and him that holdeth the scepter ( sceptre (mark of authority) clan, tribe, could also be referring to the preist of this land.) from the house of Eden (Eden= pleasure n pr m loc the first habitat of man after the creation; site unknown n pr m a Gershonite Levite, son of Joah in the days of king Hezekiah of Judah): and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir (Kir = wall a place in Mesopotamia), saith the LORD. 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