Amos 9:1-6

  1: I saw ALEPH TAV ^{[FIRST LAST]} ADONAI standing upon the altar and He said Smite the lintel of the door that the posts may shake and cut them in the head all of them and I will slay the last of them with the sword They that flee of them shall not flee away and they that escape of them shall not be delivered [-] 2: Though they are burrowing into Shaul ^{[The place of the unseen]} from there shall Mine hand take them Though they are ascending the heavens from there will I bring them down 3: And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel I will search and take them out from there and though they be hid from My sight in the bottom of the sea from there will I command the serpent and he shall bite them

Comments: ^{Amos 9:2} To whom is [את אדני] ALEPH TAV ADONAI referring that has power to burrow into Shaul, ascend into the heavens, or hide in the bottom of the sea, technologically advanced last-days humans or non-human interdimensional or extra-terrestrial creatures such as angels, Watchers, and others ^{Genesis 6:1-4}? Regardless of whether humans or non-humans are being referenced, Amos 9:2-3 is both a time-gap [-] and a prophetic free-flow [↑↓] sandwiched between Amos chapter 9, verses 1 & 4.

The time-gap in verses :2-3, gives a prophecy that is clearly not intended for the simple people of Amos [who are being spoken to inverse one], then does a U-turn in verse :4, and resumes speaking to the ancients.

4: [↑↓] And though they go into captivity before their enemies from there will I command the sword and it shall slay them and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil and not for good 5: And ADONAI YHWH [OF] THE ARMIES is He that touches the land and it shall melt and all that dwell in it shall mourn and it shall rise up wholly like a flood and shall be drowned as by the flood of Egypt

6: The One building in the heavens THEIR ascents THEIR ascents and THEIR structures over [the] earth ^{Revelation 21:2,10-27} He that calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth YHWH is His name

Comments: ^{Amos 9:4-6} The Godhead speaks in first and third person as well as refers to itself (the Godhead is a being) as both singular and plural. We know the Godhead is a triune being from both Jesus and John ^{Matthew 28:19, 1 John 5:7-8}.

Amos 8:8-11 Commentary

 

8: Shall not the land tremble for this [injustice] and everyone mourn that dwells in it? And it shall rise up wholly as a flood ^{Daniel 9:26} and it shall be cast out and drowned as by the flood of Egypt

Comments: Amos 8:8 is possibly a dual prophecy for two groups of people: Amos’s contemporaries (Amos 8:4-7) and for their descendants who will be alive during the Time of Jacob’s Trouble/The Great Tribulation and live to see the Day Christ Returns (Amos 8:8-10).

9: (-) ^{[Amos 8:9-10 is a prophecy for those who survive the Time of Jacob’s Trouble and of the Day Christ Returns]} And it shall come to pass on “that day” declares ADONAI YHWH that I will cause the sun to go down at noon and I will darken the earth in the clear day  ^{Matthew 24:29} 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 upon every head and I will make it as the mourning of an only son and the end thereof as a bitter day ^{The Day Christ Returns Zechariah 12:10} (-)

Comments: Amos 8:7-11 is an example of two separate prophecies presented as one in a non-chronological free-flow ↓↑, where a prophecy for contemporaries of Amos includes a cryptic prophecy for their descendants who will be living during The Time of Jacob’s Trouble, far into the future (The Time of Jacob’s Trouble and The Great Tribulation take place concurrently) and survive to witness the 2nd Coming of Christ.

Amos 8:10 is a parenthetical (-) statement, denoting the significant time-gap between verse 8 (-) and verses 9-10. In Amos 8:11, the prophecy makes a U-Turn and free-flows ↓↑ back to where it left off in verse :7.   

11: ↓↑ Behold the days come declares ADONAI YHWH 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 YHWH

Amos 8:4-7 commentary

 

^{[Prophecy for contemporaries of Amos]} Hear this O ye that swallow up the needy even to make the poor of the land to fail 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? That we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of shoes Yes and sell the refuse of the wheat? YHWH hath sworn by the pomp of Jacob Surely I will never forget any of their works

Comments: ^{Amos 8:4-7} Only those who don’t know their Bibles can claim that the God of the Old Testament is a God of wrath, while the God of the New Testament is a God of Love. God is the same, yesterday, today, and forever. The Old Testament is chock full of testimonies of God’s love and compassion, just as the New Testament tells of the Alpha and Omega, our Creator and Savior, the Prince of Peace, who will return to fight and win the bloodiest battle that will ever take place in the history of the world. Love is merciful, forgiving, kind, compassionate, and long suffering. Love also demands justice. God is love.

Amos 7:10-17 commentary

Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent [a message] to Jeroboam king of Israel saying Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel  The land is not able to bear all his words Jeroboam replies   For this Amos shall die by the sword and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land   Also Amaziah said unto Amos O thou seer Go Flee thee away into the land of Judah and there eat bread and prophesy there But prophesy not again any more at Bethel from the king's holy place and house of his kingdom   Then answered Amos and said to Amaziah I was no prophet neither was I a prophet's son but I was an herdman and a gatherer of sycomore fruit And YHWH took me as I followed the flock and YHWH said to me Go prophesy unto my people Israel   Now because of this YOU ^[Amaziah] hear the word of YHWH YOU [Amaziah] say Prophesy not against Israel and drop not your word against the house of Isaac   Because of this thus says YHWH Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword and your land shall be divided by line and you shalt die in a polluted land and Israel shall surely be deported from his land

Comments: ^{Amos 7:17} Amaziah knew Amos was a prophet and thought he was doing Amos a favor and getting “brownie-points” from God by warning Amos to flee to Judea and prophesy from there. He made the mistake of his life by trying to play both sides … by informing against Amos to Jeroboam and then warning Amos to flee the country and speak God’s Word in a different location.

Think about this: Amaziah was a priest who had the ear of the King, obviously a high-ranking fellow. Yet, because he chose Jeroboam against God and told God’s prophet not obey God, he is told that things will become so bad for him, that his wife, the prestigious wife of a high-ranking priest, who has likely, up to this point, lived an extravagant, privileged, and respected life, will take to the streets, becoming a prostitute in order to survive. Will Amaziah become her pimp? Probably. Epitomes of their society, Amaziah and his wife will sink into the dregs of society. All the while witnessing the murders of all of their children. Could the outcome for Amaziah’s family have been different had he chosen to honor God and not told His prophet to shut up?

Amos 3:3 commentary

 

Can two walk together except they be agreed?

Comments: ^{Amos 3:3} This verse is commonly used of human relationships, and this is a true principle. But in Amos 3:3, the Almighty is talking about him walking with us and us walking with him. Through the prophet Amos, the Lord declares that, though he has been long-suffering and merciful with Israel, he is ceasing to walk with them because they have consistently and deliberately fallen out of agreement with him, into irreversible depravity.

“Can two walk together except they be agreed?” How can we, who are made of clay, apply this principle to our lives and relationship with our Creator? We seek truth. God’s WORD is Truth. And we walk in it to the best of our ability. We cannot claim to walk with the Lord, unless to our best understanding we are in agreement with him. And how can we know whether or not we are in agreement with him, unless we know his WORD?

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John 4:5-26 commentary

 5: Then cometh he to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph 6: Now Jacob's well was there Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey sat thus on the well and it was about the sixth hour ^[noon] 7: There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water Jesus saith unto her Give me to drink 8: For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat 9: Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him How is it that thou being a Jew askest drink of me which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans 10: Jesus answered and said unto her If thou knewest the gift of God and who it is that saith to thee Give me to drink thou wouldest have asked of Him and He would have given thee Living Water 11: The woman saith unto Him Sir thou hast nothing to draw with and the well is deep from whence then hast thou that Living Water?

12: Art thou greater than our father Jacob which gave us the well and drank thereof himself and his children and his cattle? 13: Jesus answered and said unto her Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again 14: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him ^{[Invisible women x’s 3]} shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. 15: The woman saith unto Him Sir give me this water that I thirst not neither come hither to draw 16: Jesus saith unto her Go call thy husband and come hither 17: The woman answered and said I have no husband Jesus said unto her Thou hast well said I have no husband 18: For thou hast had five husbands and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband In that saidst thou truly

Comments: ^{John 4:17-18} We do not know if the Woman at the Well was widowed or divorced. Chances are good that her fifth husband put her away without giving her a divorce settlement, thereby leaving her in marital limbo, which prevented her from marrying. If she had been divorced at any time in her past, Jesus acknowledged her marriages as legitimate. He did not stigmatize her for being married five times, though he did not legitimize her current living arrangement.

19: The woman saith unto him Sir I perceive that thou art a prophet 20: Our fathers ^{[invisible women x’s 2]} worshipped in this mountain and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship

Comments: ^{John 4:19-20} It goes without saying, that in this passage the woman refers to her ancestors, both her foremothers as well as her forefathers worshipped, but who is pictured in reader’s minds when all ancestors are called “fathers?” Who is pictured in the minds of readers when translators translate all people as “men?” Males are pictured, rendering women invisible. Gender-biased-translation is the case with most every Bible translation. This must be addressed and corrected.

Though a social outcast, otherwise she would not be drawing water at high noon when none of the other women would be at the well, the Woman at the Well is obviously interested in the things of God. As soon as Jesus spoke of spiritual matters, she immediately launches into a theological debate.  

21: Jesus saith unto her Woman believe me the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain ^{Amos 5:1} nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father 22: Ye worship ye know not what We know what we worship for salvation is of the Jews

Comments: ^{John 4:21-22} Jesus stopped the debate by telling her the Law of Moses, that required worship to take place in the Temple at Jerusalem, would soon be abolished. When he said that salvation is through the Jews, it was an unapologetic reminder that the scriptures foretold that Messiah would descend from the line of Judah.  

23: But the hour cometh and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him 24: God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth 25: The woman saith unto him I know that Messias cometh which is called Christ When he is come he will tell us all things 26: Jesus saith unto her I that speak unto thee am He

Comments: ^{John 4:23-24} We worship by the Holy Spirit, by the Truth of HIS WORD, through faith in the RISEN SON OF GOD, who is TRUTH personified. Jesus said he was the only way, the only truth, and the only life, and that no one could come to the Father except through Him. Jesus died for the sins of all, so that all could be saved, but not all will be saved.

^{John 4:25-26} The Woman at the Well was looking for Messiah. She was a woman of faith. The first record we have of Jesus verbally revealing his identity to anyone, is to a woman. Though history and gender-biased-Bible-translators have tried to render women invisible, Jesus never did. Our Creator went out of his way to obliterate sinful gender-based hierarchies and double standards. Jesus made a point to let women and his male disciples know that his female creation was every bit as important, relevant, and autonomous as his male creation, and needed to be publicly treated as such.

Amos 5:27

 

Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus says YHWH ELOHIM of Armies Name of HIM, “פ” PEY

Comments: ^{Amos 5:27} This verse ends in an untranslated stand-alone letter, following the phrase, "Name of HIM.” The letter is not simply the letter “P.” The Hebrew letter (which is also a word) is PEY. 

The letter Pey is associated with the word mouth. By extension, it signifies expression, speech, and breath. ELOHIM spoke: By the Word of YHWH were the heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of HIS mouth. Messiah, who is YHWH ELOHIM in the flesh, will destroy the Man of Sin with the Breath of HIS Mouth ^{Psalm 33:6, 2 Thessalonians 2:8}.

 

Pey symbolizes breath, the power to speak, and is considered to give insight and expression.