BY SRH
Who had acquired richly laden tables by cheating, perverting justice and crushing the poor, you will lose everything you have…..
When one suppresses truth what they are really doing is squashing God’s Word (John 17:17). God gave us His Word so that we may know and understand it (John 8:32). God gave us His Word so that we may live by it (2 Timothy 3:16-17). God gave us His Word so that we may have the best possible life here on earth (1 John 5:13; Philippians 4:7). Let us look at our text with these truths in mind. (SLIDE)
Amos 5:7-13 There are those who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground. 8 He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns midnight into dawn and darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land— the LORD is his name. 9 With a blinding flash, he destroys the stronghold and brings the fortified city to ruin. 10 There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court and detests the one who tells the truth. 11 You levy a straw tax on the poor and impose a tax on their grain. Therefore, though you have built stone mansions, you will not live in them; though you have planted lush vineyards, you will not drink their wine. 12 I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins. There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts. 13 Therefore the prudent keep quiet in such times, for the times are evil.
Times seem to be getting worse and worse with good increasingly called evil and evil called good. (Isaiah 5:20. Ecclesiastes 8:11) However, times have been similarly bad before in history. (Ecclesiastes 1:9,10. Ecclesiastes 7:10)
Those who call evil good and good evil are as good as dead, who turn darkness into light and light into darkness, who turn bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter. (Isaiah 5:20)
When a sentence is not executed at once against a crime, the human heart is encouraged to do evil. (Ecclesiastes 8:11)
Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these days?” for it is not wise to ask that. (Ecclesiastes 7:10)
Is there anything about which someone can say, “Look at this! It is new!”? It was already done long ago, before our time. (Ecclesiastes 1:9-10)
Amos 5:16-17 Therefore this is what the Lord, the LORD God Almighty, says: “There will be wailing in all the streets and cries of anguish in every public square. The farmers will be summoned to weep and the mourners to wail. 17 There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.
Evil men plot against the godly and viciously attack them. The Lord laughs in disgust at them, for he knows that their day is coming. Evil men draw their swords and prepare their bows, to bring down the oppressed and needy, and to slaughter those who are godly. Their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken. The little bit that a godly man owns is better than the wealth of many evil men, for evil men will lose their power, but the LORD sustains the godly. The LORD watches over the innocent day by day and they possess a permanent inheritance. They will not be ashamed when hard times come; when famine comes they will have enough to eat. But evil men will die; the LORD’s enemies will be incinerated– they will go up in smoke. Evil men borrow but do not repay their debt, but the godly show compassion and are generous. Surely those favored by the LORD will possess the land, but those rejected by him will be wiped out.
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Author: StevieRay Hansen
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