WEBVTT 00:00:00.999 --> 00:00:03.700 Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're 00:00:03.700 --> 00:00:05.740 taking this journey together to read the Bible 00:00:05.740 --> 00:00:08.919 in a year. Today we wrap up the book of Amos 00:00:08.919 --> 00:00:14.099 with chapters 6 through 9. Chapter 6 Woe to you 00:00:14.099 --> 00:00:17.059 who are at ease in Zion and trust in Mount Samaria, 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:20.019 notable persons in the chief nation to whom the 00:00:20.019 --> 00:00:23.539 house of Israel comes. Go over to Calne and see, 00:00:23.699 --> 00:00:26.640 and from there go to Hamad the Great, then go 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:29.039 down to Gad of the Philistines. Are you better 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:31.519 than these kingdoms, or is their territory greater 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:34.759 than your territory? Woe to you who put far off 00:00:34.759 --> 00:00:37.340 the day of doom, who cause the seat of violence 00:00:37.340 --> 00:00:40.439 to come near, who lie on beds of ivory, stretch 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:43.259 out on your couches, eat lambs from the flock 00:00:43.259 --> 00:00:46.520 and calves from the midst of the stall, who sing 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:49.320 idly to the sound of stringed instruments and 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:52.159 invent for yourselves musical instruments like 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:55.240 David, who drink wine from bowls and anoint yourselves 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:58.409 with the best ointments. but are not grieved 00:00:58.409 --> 00:01:01.130 for the affliction of joseph therefore they shall 00:01:01.130 --> 00:01:04.069 now go captive as the first of the captives and 00:01:04.069 --> 00:01:06.510 those who recline at banquets shall be removed 00:01:06.510 --> 00:01:10.069 the lord god has sworn by himself the lord god 00:01:10.069 --> 00:01:13.790 of hosts says i abhor the pride of jacob and 00:01:13.790 --> 00:01:16.650 hate his palaces therefore i will deliver up 00:01:16.650 --> 00:01:19.250 the city and all that is in it then it shall 00:01:19.250 --> 00:01:22.530 come to pass that if ten men remain in one house 00:01:22.530 --> 00:01:25.150 they shall die and when a relative of the dead 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:27.959 with one who will burn the bodies, picks up the 00:01:27.959 --> 00:01:30.120 bodies to take them out of the house. He will 00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:32.500 say to one inside the house, Are there any more 00:01:32.500 --> 00:01:35.760 with you? Then someone will say, None. And he 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:38.579 will say, Hold your tongue, for we dare not mention 00:01:38.579 --> 00:01:41.079 the name of the Lord. For behold, the Lord gives 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:43.519 a command. He will break the great house into 00:01:43.519 --> 00:01:46.620 bits, and the little house into pieces. Do horses 00:01:46.620 --> 00:01:49.760 run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:52.659 Yet you have turned justice into gall, and the 00:01:52.659 --> 00:01:55.500 fruit of righteousness into wormwood. You who 00:01:55.500 --> 00:01:58.700 rejoice over Lo -Debar, who say, Have we not 00:01:58.700 --> 00:02:01.799 taken Qarnaym for ourselves by our own strength? 00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:04.640 But behold, I will raise up a nation against 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:07.239 you, O house of Israel, says the Lord God of 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:09.699 hosts, and they will afflict you from the entrance 00:02:09.699 --> 00:02:14.099 of Hamad to the valley of the Araba. Chapter 00:02:14.099 --> 00:02:18.060 7 Thus the Lord God showed me. Behold, he formed 00:02:18.060 --> 00:02:20.580 locust swarms as at the beginning of the late 00:02:20.580 --> 00:02:23.229 crop. Indeed, it was the late crop after the 00:02:23.229 --> 00:02:25.909 king's mowings. And so it was, when they had 00:02:25.909 --> 00:02:28.169 finished eating the grass of the land, that I 00:02:28.169 --> 00:02:31.949 said, O Lord God, forgive, I pray, O that Jacob 00:02:31.949 --> 00:02:35.110 may stand, for he is small. So the Lord relented 00:02:35.110 --> 00:02:37.789 concerning this. It shall not be, said the Lord. 00:02:38.169 --> 00:02:40.830 Thus the Lord God showed me. Behold, the Lord 00:02:40.830 --> 00:02:43.830 God called for conflict by fire, and it consumed 00:02:43.830 --> 00:02:46.310 the great deep and devoured the territory. Then 00:02:46.310 --> 00:02:50.039 I said, O Lord God, cease, I pray. O that Jacob 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:52.879 may stand, for he is small. So the Lord relented 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:55.900 concerning this. This also shall not be, said 00:02:55.900 --> 00:02:59.360 the Lord God. Thus he showed me. Behold, the 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:01.979 Lord stood on a wall made with a plumb line, 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:05.120 with a plumb line in his hand. And the Lord said 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:08.340 to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A plumb 00:03:08.340 --> 00:03:11.099 line. Then the Lord said, Behold, I am setting 00:03:11.099 --> 00:03:13.620 a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:16.960 I will not pass by them any more. The high places 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:19.599 of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:22.340 of Israel shall be laid waste. I will rise with 00:03:22.340 --> 00:03:24.840 the sword against the house of Jeroboam. Then 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:27.419 Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam 00:03:27.419 --> 00:03:30.219 king of Israel, saying, Amos has conspired against 00:03:30.219 --> 00:03:32.639 you in the midst of the house of Israel. The 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:35.659 land is not able to bear all his words. For thus 00:03:35.659 --> 00:03:38.419 Amos has said, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, 00:03:38.539 --> 00:03:41.580 and Israel shall surely be led away captive from 00:03:41.580 --> 00:03:45.000 their own land. Then Amaziah said to Amos, Go 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:48.030 you seer. flee to the land of Judah. There eat 00:03:48.030 --> 00:03:51.210 bread, and there prophesy. But never again prophesy 00:03:51.210 --> 00:03:54.150 at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary, and 00:03:54.150 --> 00:03:56.569 it is the royal residence. Then Amos answered 00:03:56.569 --> 00:03:59.530 and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, nor was 00:03:59.530 --> 00:04:02.430 I a son of a prophet, but I was a sheep breeder, 00:04:02.490 --> 00:04:05.330 and a tender of sycamore fruit. Then the Lord 00:04:05.330 --> 00:04:07.530 took me as I followed the flock, and the Lord 00:04:07.530 --> 00:04:10.389 said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel. 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:13.360 Now therefore hear the word of the Lord. You 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:15.639 say, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:18.579 spout against the house of Isaac. Therefore thus 00:04:18.579 --> 00:04:21.199 says the Lord, Your wife shall be a harlot in 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:23.620 the city, your sons and daughters shall fall 00:04:23.620 --> 00:04:26.519 by the sword, your land shall be divided by survey 00:04:26.519 --> 00:04:30.379 line, you shall die in a defiled land, and Israel 00:04:30.379 --> 00:04:33.060 shall surely be led away captive from his own 00:04:33.060 --> 00:04:37.839 land. Chapter 8 Thus the Lord God showed me. 00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:40.339 Behold a basket of summer fruit. And he said, 00:04:40.519 --> 00:04:43.899 Amos, what do you see? So I said, A basket of 00:04:43.899 --> 00:04:46.500 summer fruit. Then the Lord said to me, The end 00:04:46.500 --> 00:04:49.139 has come upon my people Israel. I will not pass 00:04:49.139 --> 00:04:51.420 by them any more, and the songs of the temple 00:04:51.420 --> 00:04:54.319 shall be wailing in that day, says the Lord God. 00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:57.500 Many dead bodies everywhere, they shall be thrown 00:04:57.500 --> 00:05:00.439 out in silence. Hear this, you who swallow up 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:02.740 the needy, and make the poor of the land fail, 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:06.120 saying, When will the new moon be passed, that 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:08.970 we may sell grain? and the sabbath that we may 00:05:08.970 --> 00:05:11.829 trade wheat making the efe small and the shekel 00:05:11.829 --> 00:05:14.829 large falsifying the scales by deceit that we 00:05:14.829 --> 00:05:17.230 may buy the poor for silver and the needy for 00:05:17.230 --> 00:05:20.810 a pair of sandals even sell the bad wheat the 00:05:20.810 --> 00:05:23.430 lord has sworn by the pride of jacob surely i 00:05:23.430 --> 00:05:26.129 will never forget any of their works shall the 00:05:26.129 --> 00:05:28.509 land not tremble for this and every one mourn 00:05:28.509 --> 00:05:31.069 who dwells in it all of it shall swell like the 00:05:31.069 --> 00:05:33.949 river Heave and subside, like the river of Egypt, 00:05:34.110 --> 00:05:36.290 and it shall come to pass in that day, says the 00:05:36.290 --> 00:05:38.769 Lord God, that I will make the sun go down at 00:05:38.769 --> 00:05:41.490 noon, and I will darken the earth in broad daylight. 00:05:41.730 --> 00:05:44.569 I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all 00:05:44.569 --> 00:05:47.529 your songs into lamentation. I will bring sackcloth 00:05:47.529 --> 00:05:50.389 on every waist, and baldness on every head. I 00:05:50.389 --> 00:05:52.870 will make it like mourning for an only son, and 00:05:52.870 --> 00:05:55.509 its end like a bitter day. Behold, the days are 00:05:55.509 --> 00:05:57.810 coming, says the Lord God, that I will send a 00:05:57.810 --> 00:06:00.750 famine on the land, not a famine of bread, nor 00:06:00.750 --> 00:06:03.310 a thirst for water, but of hearing the words 00:06:03.310 --> 00:06:05.889 of the Lord. They shall wander from sea to sea, 00:06:05.970 --> 00:06:09.149 and from north to east. They shall run to and 00:06:09.149 --> 00:06:11.470 fro, seeking the word of the Lord, but shall 00:06:11.470 --> 00:06:14.250 not find it. In that day the fair virgins and 00:06:14.250 --> 00:06:17.250 strong young men shall faint from thirst, those 00:06:17.250 --> 00:06:20.209 who swear by the sin of Samaria, who say, As 00:06:20.209 --> 00:06:23.310 your God lives, O Dan, and as the way of Beersheba 00:06:23.310 --> 00:06:26.079 lives. They shall fall and never rise again. 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:31.000 Chapter 9 I saw the Lord standing by the altar, 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:34.240 and he said, Strike the doorposts, that the thresholds 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:36.600 may shake, and break them on the heads of them 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:39.240 all. I will slay the last of them with the sword. 00:06:39.420 --> 00:06:42.120 He who flees from them shall not get away, and 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:44.279 he who escapes from them shall not be delivered. 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:47.420 Though they dig into hell, from there my hand 00:06:47.420 --> 00:06:49.800 shall take them. Though they climb up to heaven, 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:52.339 from there I will bring them down. And though 00:06:52.339 --> 00:06:55.199 they hide themselves on top of Carmel, from there 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:57.819 I will search and take them. Though they hide 00:06:57.819 --> 00:07:00.480 from my sight at the bottom of the sea, from 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:02.980 there I will command the serpent and it shall 00:07:02.980 --> 00:07:05.459 bite them. Though they go into captivity before 00:07:05.459 --> 00:07:07.939 their enemies, from there I will command the 00:07:07.939 --> 00:07:11.100 sword and it shall slay them. I will set my eyes 00:07:11.100 --> 00:07:14.139 on them for harm and not for good. The Lord God 00:07:14.139 --> 00:07:16.480 of hosts, he who touches the earth and it melts, 00:07:16.660 --> 00:07:19.480 and all who dwell there mourn, all of it shall 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:22.040 swell like the river. and subside like the river 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:24.620 of Egypt, he who builds his layers in the sky, 00:07:24.819 --> 00:07:27.939 and has founded his strata in the earth, who 00:07:27.939 --> 00:07:30.240 calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:32.540 out on the face of the earth, the Lord is his 00:07:32.540 --> 00:07:35.060 name. Are you not like the people of Ethiopia 00:07:35.060 --> 00:07:38.220 to me, O children of Israel, says the Lord? Did 00:07:38.220 --> 00:07:40.680 I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:43.339 the Philistines from Kaphtor, and the Syrians 00:07:43.339 --> 00:07:46.600 from Kir? behold the eyes of the lord god are 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:49.019 on the sinful kingdom and i will destroy it from 00:07:49.019 --> 00:07:51.259 the face of the earth yet i will not utterly 00:07:51.259 --> 00:07:54.019 destroy the house of jacob says the lord for 00:07:54.019 --> 00:07:56.860 surely i will command and will sift the house 00:07:56.860 --> 00:07:59.779 of israel among all nations as grain is sifted 00:07:59.779 --> 00:08:02.860 in a sieve yet not the smallest grain shall fall 00:08:02.860 --> 00:08:05.420 to the ground all the sinners of my people shall 00:08:05.420 --> 00:08:08.199 die by the sword who say the calamity shall not 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:12.259 overtake nor confront us on that day i will raise 00:08:12.259 --> 00:08:14.839 up the tabernacle of David, which has fallen 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:17.959 down, and repair its damages. I will raise up 00:08:17.959 --> 00:08:20.920 its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old, 00:08:21.060 --> 00:08:23.680 that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:26.500 all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says 00:08:26.500 --> 00:08:29.500 the Lord who does this thing. Behold, the days 00:08:29.500 --> 00:08:31.920 are coming, says the Lord, when the plowman shall 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:34.399 overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes, 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:38.019 him who sows seed. The mountains shall drip with 00:08:38.019 --> 00:08:41.120 sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:43.899 it. I will bring back the captives of my people 00:08:43.899 --> 00:08:46.799 Israel. They shall build the waste cities and 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:49.159 inhabit them. They shall plant vineyards and 00:08:49.159 --> 00:08:51.799 drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:54.820 and eat fruit from them. I will plant them in 00:08:54.820 --> 00:08:57.379 their land, and no longer shall they be pulled 00:08:57.379 --> 00:09:00.580 up from the land I have given them, says the 00:09:00.580 --> 00:09:08.399 Lord your God. I hope you enjoyed today's reading 00:09:08.399 --> 00:09:10.710 as much as I did. And I look forward to seeing 00:09:10.710 --> 00:09:12.750 you again tomorrow to continue on our journey. 00:09:12.889 --> 00:09:14.549 God bless you and have a great day.