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

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