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Feb 15, 2023 · We typically understand a famine as a lack of food or water, but Amos 8:11 speaks cryptically of a famine of the hearing of the Word of God: “‘The days are coming,’ declares the Sovereign Lord, ‘when I will send a famine through the land—not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.’”
- Amos 5
The people of Amos’s day claimed to follow God with their...
- Amos 5
Amos 8:11 (NASB) The first act of punishment listed is that God would send a famine. But the famine was not one of no food or no water. The people would not suffer from a lack of food or water. Instead, they would suffer due to a famine of not hearing the words of the Lord. That is, they would not hear the words of Scripture which God wrote.
Sep 19, 2017 · Amos 8:11-13. Worse than famine, worse than drought, worse than natural disaster, worse terrible mourning, the day is coming, God says, when you will not be able to find me at all. There will be a famine of the words of Yahweh. You will look for me in the north, south, east, and west. You will stumble faintly from place to place trying to find ...
“The time is surely coming,” says the Sovereign LORD, “when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread or water but of hearing the words of the LORD. English Standard Version “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord GOD, “when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.
May we study to show ourselves approved unto God, as we meditate and memorise the words of life, so that our hearts may be saturated with truth and light. May we be used by God to proclaim truth to a generation that has been deceived by Satan and blinded to the truth. May we become light to a world that is groping in darkness and tell forth the ...
Amos 8:11. Behold the days come, saith the Lord — This is spoken of events which were yet at some distance. That I will send a famine in the land, not of bread, &c., but of hearing the words of the Lord — When Amos prophesied, and for a considerable time after, there were several prophets, and abundant opportunities of hearing the word of the Lord, in season and out of season: they had ...
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Amos 8:11-14 meaning. Amos predicts a widespread famine and drought that will plague the nation Israel. It will not be a famine of food or thirst for water, but rather a starvation for hearing the words of the LORD. This oracle begins with the statement " Behold, days are coming " to alert the Israelites of the imminent nature of what was about ...
