So the Lord relented. “This will not happen,” the Lord said.

I know these next chapters of Amos are so important, as the whole of scripture is… So to understand better, I once again recommend the animated story board retelling videos on YouTube – a starting board from which to dive in….

And these images in Amos 7 are of a vision of the destruction of wayward Israel, offsprings of Jacob and his tribes, with locusts and fire – but Amos, a fig tree farmer turned prophesy preventer, calls out to the Lord as is to say ‘Don’t ruin us completely’: “How can Jacob survive? He is so small!” Yes, Amos was making the realization of the need to be saved as a people from their wayward ways, they were words the Lord was wanting to hear… Amos saw AMAZING Almosts then spoke of the Spiritual Save!

God relented these acts of locusts and fire, but He was as True to His Word as the plumb line was to the earth – God was going to correct their waywardness, crumbling faith devotion, with exile and rebuilding. 

Rebuilding! This was the crumble before the correction… Soon to ve written is the rise from the ashes of a Savior (see chapter 9 ahead)… Jesus was and is and will be the Savior of AMAZING AMENS! 

AMEN 

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Amos 7

Locusts, Fire and a Plumb Line

This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts after the king’s share had been harvested and just as the late crops were coming up. When they had stripped the land clean, I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!”

So the Lord relented.

“This will not happen,” the Lord said.

This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: The Sovereign Lord was calling for judgment by fire; it dried up the great deep and devoured the land. Then I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!”

So the Lord relented.

“This will not happen either,” the Sovereign Lord said.

This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb line in his hand. And the Lord asked me, “What do you see, Amos?”

“A plumb line,” I replied.

Then the Lord said, “Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.

“The high places of Isaac will be destroyed and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined; with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam.”

Amos and Amaziah

Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel: “Amos is raising a conspiracy against you in the very heart of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words. For this is what Amos is saying:

“‘Jeroboam will die by the sword,

    and Israel will surely go into exile,

    away from their native land.’”

Then Amaziah said to Amos, “Get out, you seer! Go back to the land of Judah. Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there. Don’t prophesy anymore at Bethel, because this is the king’s sanctuary and the temple of the kingdom.”

Amos answered Amaziah, “I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees. But the Lord took me from tending the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’

Now then, hear the word of the Lord. You say, “‘Do not prophesy against Israel, and stop preaching against the descendants of Isaac.’

“Therefore this is what the Lord says:

“‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be measured and divided up, and you yourself will die in a pagan country. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their native land.’”

I highly recommend this :https://youtu.be/mGgWaPGpGz4?si=_zCK2ZC8Q4_jo4zA