Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-10
ISRAEL'S FALL FORETOLD
LESSON VI, SECOND QUARTER, IN
TsRNATiONAL SERIES, MAY 10.

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l. THUS hath the Lord God showed unto
me, and behold a basket of summer fruit ,
In our last lesson we heard Jehovah re
minding Israel Of the many ways in which
He had sought to win them back to Him
self. In chapter V, 4, g. IA, -, they are re-
peatedly eatteated TO seek Him and live
Then they are warned of the day Of the
Lord and its terrors, yet they conspirt
against the prophet Amos and refuse K
hear his words ,stvf, 1913. Now, in a
vision, the nation Is shown to the prophet
as basket Of ripe fruit, ready to be
consumed; they will not be- warned and
therefore Judgment must come.
?. Then said the Lord unto me, The
end Is come upon my people of Israel;
will not again pass by them any mora"
Similar words are found in chapter vii, &
and in Eek. vii, 2, g. Long and patiently
He forbears, and lovingly seeks in every
way to win them back, bus there is q point
where mercy stops and Judgment must
fall.
3. And the songs Of the temple shah be
bowling in that day, saith the Lord God;
many dead bodies in every place; they shall
cast them forth with silence"
In lisa. xiii, go, and in many other places
bowling is associated with the Day of the
Lord, and the expression ''in that day
found in this verse and in verses 9 and l9
also signifies the Day Of the Lord lisa. ii, II,
~ The Great Day Of the Lord is yet future,
and is everywhere associated with judg-
ments upon the ungodiy and deliverance
for the faithful remnant (see lisa. xxxiv,
s; xxxv, 4; xiii, A. But the approaching
Judgment in the days Of Amos was fore
shadowing of the Great Day yet future.
4. Hear this, o We that swallow up the
needy, even to make the poor of the land
to fail"
They were painting for the goods Of the
poor, that they might fail out of the land.
They are described in Prov. XXX, IA, as IA
generation whose teeth are as swords, and
their jaw teeth as knives, TO devour the
poor from off the earth, and the needy
from among men"
D. Saying, When will the new moon be
gone, tn / we may sell corni and the Sab
bath that we may set forth wheat"
They outwardly kept these days re-
igiously, but all the time their hearts
were longing for the business of the NOR
row.
Making the ephah small, and the sheke
great, and classifying the balances by de
ceit"
Not only were market days better to
them than Sahbaths, but they were full OF
deceit even in business, giving their pur-
chasers short weight and taking from
them more than was due, Not scrupling
to cheat God out Of His appointed worship,
they found no difficulty in cheating their
fellow man
6. That we may buy the poor for silver
and the needy for pair of shoes, and sell
the refuse Of the wheat"
Compelling the needy to sell themselves
as slaves and eat refuse corn. They sold
the righteous for silver and the poor for a
pair of shoes CHAP. ii, O.. They had no
heart for God or His commands or His
poor
q 1.-THE Lord hath sworn by the excel.
lency of Jacob, Surely l will never forget
any of their works"
HE will remember their iniquity and
visit their sins" THE sin Of Judah is
written with pen of iron, and with the
point Of diamond" (Hos. viii, IS; Jer
xvii, n.
s. Shall not the land tremble for this,
and every one mourn that dwelleth there
inn And it shall rise up wholly as a Aood,
and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by
the food of Egypt"
This shaking world would be great and
sore, but nothing when compared with the
great shaking of heaven, earth, sea, dry
land and all nations in the day of the Lord
alag. ii, 6-7; Heb xii, 26).
0. And it shall come to pass in that
day, saith the Lord God, that will cause
the sun to 90 down at noon, and will
darken the earth in the clear day"
The physical signs shall happen as accom-
paniments and intensi1cations Of the aw-
full state Of things which the description
typifes.
To- And | will turn your feasts into
mourning, and all your songs into iameuta-
ton"
The mourning, lamsntation, sackcloth,
badness and bitterness of this verse all
indicate the great Judgment that would
overtale them because of their sins
II. Behold, the days come, saith the
Lord God, that will send a famine in the
land; not famine of bread, nor thirst
for water, but of hearing the words of the
Lord"
Multitudes in our day would not worry
much over that kind of famine. It was
just so in Israel
- -h+H 'Nt AhteAA Nhhhti ATOln sta 10
sea, and from the north even to the east;
hey shall run TO and fro TO seek the Word |
Of the Lord, and shall not find it,"
blessings lost are apt 10 DO priced wheA |
1 ID too late.
10. I'm that day shall the balT virgips
and young men Saint for thirst."
Fhts is the third reference In oar lesson /
% "thes day" In chspter TX, li-i5, observe |
low & is associated w<gh the national |
never again 10 be broken up: |
,ut besors THAI there will be the great
Tibulsrioa 81 Jes, XXX. {; Dan. xii, |. The /
u the ctptivisy were fsreshAd |
wings OF The tins here spoken Of No that I
hay" Tins t..sslng sor tkirst viii he Ne /
;a'iss of coatssausd iu.pesiter,ce iosin lisa
Iii, y. is - written, When the poor and |
leedy seek S~srr, aud there Is none, nnd |
heiF eoosue fsile<b cor thirst, I, tho Lord, /
sill hn<s< uhers |, the Gsd Of kas~sl, win |
bot h1vsske them"
In Lean. !, -, u. -, He sy-Ak. Of Ms
peopse - yo,ins nsea aad visgsus
"a Thny thse swear hJ' the sin Of s--
nsria. Md say, Thy Sod, o Dan, hy~th;
Md, The manner OF Bcersaeba liveth;
wen tfey stall fall. and pers~ rise mp
lgsin.N
In D~ut tx, 81, the xaldsn calf which
AArnS made "A ~,rted f,x,~laa air yf,