As if a man fled from a lion, And a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, And a snake bit him.
Here they were longing for the day of the Lord, but because of their lives, their sin, the day of the Lord wasn't gonna be glory for them. It was gonna be for them the day of judgment and the day of darkness. And so is the day of the Lord. For those who are the servants of the Lord, it's a glorious day that we anticipate, the establishing of His glorious kingdom. And so there is this dichotomy involved with the day of the Lord. There are those that, there are those scriptures that speak about a day of judgment and wrath and so forth, which it will be to those who love evil, to the wicked. But unto the righteous, a glorious day of glory, the day of the Lord. It's something that we do look forward to. But unto them, because of their sins, a woe to them when the day of the Lord will come.Now it will be as though a man was going down the road and a lion attacked him, and he escaped from the lion. And he didn't go very much further until a bear attacked him. And he escaped from the bear and he finally gets home exhausted, having run from the lion and run from the bear, and he gets home and he just is exhausted. He leans up against the wall of his house, and a snake bites him and he dies. I mean, you're going from the frying pan into the fire. That's the figure that Amos uses here.