Amos 8
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| Amos 8 Summary "Israel is ripe for his final doom" because it has gone the way of sloth, coveting, and injustice instead of The Way of the righteousness of God. |
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| Amos speaks of "A basket of summer fruit". But the word for basket KafLamedVavBeit[1] is from KafLamedBeit[2] meaning dog. The word for summer fruit KufYodTzadik [3] seems connected to the word for end KufTzadik[4] according to many commentaries. |
| Ellicott's Commentary specifically states in explanation that "Israel is ripe for his final doom, that shall sweep down like a scythe.". So is the "basket of summer fruit" really a reference to Israel being like a dog in a cage who is about to meet his end. |
| If this is the poetic prophecy of Amos it is clear that it is a cage of its own making. The people refuse to repent. Their priests did not know the Song of Moses. The songs of the temple shall be howlings with dead bodies in every place. Why? Because they "swallow up the needy" and make the poor fail. What makes the poor fail today? How did they swallow the people like the grave or bite one another? |
| Proverbs 1:12 "Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:" In verse 10 we are warned that if "sinners entice thee, consent thou not." And by verse 14 there is the warning about a system where you all have "one purse". The Golden calf, Choosing to have a King in 1 Samuel 8 and the covetous practices mentioned by Peter which entangles you in the elements of the world, makes you merchandise and curse children are all prophetic warnings of going the way of destruction. |
| What of the selling of your corn, the Sabbath, and falsifying the balances by deceit? |
| If you "buy the poor for silver" did you buy their vote like LBJ and FDR did? Have they become loyal voters but merchandise. |
| The term baldness[5] we address in Micah 1 and commonly appears in Lamentations. |
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The Coming Day of Bitter Mourning
1 ¶ Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. 2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more. 3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence. 4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? 7 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. 8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt. 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
Feasts become morning and the word unheard
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness[5] upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. 11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.[6] 13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. 14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba[7] liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
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- ↑ 03619 כְּלוּב KafLamedVavBeit këlub [kel-oob’] from the same as 03611 dog KafLamedBeit; n m; [BDB-477a] [{See TWOT on 981 @@ "981b" }] AV-cage 2, basket 1; 3
- 1) cage, basket, dog cage
- כ ך Kaf K Crown: To Actualize Potential power from spiritual to physical realm [to cover, strength] (Numeric value: 20)
- ל Lamed means Aspiration of the Heart or to learn or even direct like a shepherd. It has to do with what the Hand produces, [hand is די YodDalet] or directs with staff, whip... like the tongue may direct. (Numeric value: 30)
- ו Vav Connection, Connecting realms and worlds or the dividing veil between them. [nail... And, Add, secure, hook] (Numeric value: 6)
- ב Beit Purpose: God's Dwelling Place Below - a house or God's house here. [household, in, into] (Numeric value: 2)
- ↑ 03611 כֶּלֶב KafLamedBeit keleb [keh’-leb] from an unused root means. to yelp, or else to attack; n m; [BDB-476b] [{See TWOT on 981 @@ "981a" }] AV-dog 32; 32
- 1) dog
- 1a) dog (literal)
- 1b) contempt or abasement (fig.)
- 1c) of pagan sacrifice
- 1d) of male cult prostitute (fig.)
- כ ך Kaf K Crown: To Actualize Potential power from spiritual to physical realm [to cover, strength] (Numeric value: 20)
- ל Lamed means Aspiration of the Heart or to learn or even direct like a shepherd. It has to do with what the Hand produces, [hand is די YodDalet] or directs with staff, whip... like the tongue may direct. (Numeric value: 30)
- ב Beit Purpose: God's Dwelling Place Below - a house or God's house here. [household, in, into] (Numeric value: 2)
- 1) dog
- ↑ 07019 קַיִץ KufYodTzadik qayits [kah’-yits] from 06972 KufVavTzadik (the same letters can mean "to be grieved, loathe, abhor" 06973, or Wake up 06974, or thorn 06975; n m; [BDB-884b] [{See TWOT on 2020 @@ "2020a" }] AV-summer 11, summer fruit 9; 20
- 1) summer, summer-fruit
- 1a) summer
- 1b) summer-fruit
- 1) summer, summer-fruit
- ↑ 07093 קֵץ KufTzadik qets [kates] contracted from 07112 KufTzadik the verb to cut off, an extremity; n m; [BDB-893b] [{See TWOT on 2060 @@ "2060a" }] AV-end 52, after 10, border 3, infinite 1, process 1; 67
- 1) end
- 1a) end, at the end of (of time)
- 1b) end (of space)
- ק Kuf or Kof Omnipresence - Redemption of Fallen Sparks The paradoxical union Reish and a Zayin holiness or separateness omnipresence of God [Cord and needle 𐤒 ... back of head neck... the last or least] (Numeric value: 100)
- צ ץ Tzadik is always related to The Faith of the Righteous One, the foundation of the word "to hunt" or Harvest even eat or desire. [Harvest, pant, desire] (Numeric value: 90)
- 1) end
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 07144 קָרְחָה qorchah [kor-khaw’] or קרחא qorcha’ (#Eze 27:31) [kor-khaw’] from 07139; n f; [BDB-901a] [{See TWOT on 2069 @@ "2069b" }] AV-baldness 9, bald 1, utterly 1; 11
- 1) baldness, bald
- KufReish can mean cool or cold.
- KufReishAlef can mean call out, cry for help or meet.
- KufReishBeit can mean come near, approach or even war and battle. It can also mean internal emotions or even entrails. Add the Nun on the end it can be an offering from the word Corban.
- ק Kuf or Kof Omnipresence - Redemption of Fallen Sparks The paradoxical union Reish and a Zayin holiness or separateness omnipresence of God [Cord and needle 𐤒 ... back of head neck... the last or least] (Numeric value: 100)
- ר Reish Process of Clarification The "head" or "beginning". Life's revelation. [Head... Person head highest] (Numeric value: 200)
- ח Chet The Life Force - Dynamic nature of - cause and effect - give life and live.[fence, thread, hedge, chamber...cycle] (Numeric value: 8)
- ה Hey Expression--Thought, Speech, Action. Manifest seeds of thought and life. [Emphasize, jubilation, window, fence] (Numeric value: 5)
- ↑ Tossed
- Ephesians 4:14 "That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;"
- James 1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
- Proverbs 21:6 "The getting of treasures by a lying tongue [is] a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death."
- Isaiah 33:4 "And your spoil shall be gathered [like] the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them."
- Jeremiah 5:1 "Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be [any] that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it."
- Amos 8:12 "And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find [it]."
- ↑ 0884 בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע Bë’er Sheba‘ [be-ayr’ sheh’- bah] from 0875 a well and 07651 seven (in the sense of 07650 swear and oath); n pr loc; [BDB-92a] [{See TWOT on 194 @@ "194d" }] AV-Beersheba 34; 34
- Beer-sheba= "well of the sevenfold oath"
- 1) a city at the south edge of Israel