But I will send a fire on Moab, And it will devour the palaces of Kerioth; And Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;
Fosbroke declared that, "This oracle against Moab is beyond doubt an authentic utterance of Amos,"[9] which, of course, is the truth; but we deny the right of Biblical critics to decide which portions of God's Word are authentic and which are not.  Such an admission by the Old Testament critics of the undeniable truth of this oracle, however, actually frustrates their assertions that the so-called "oracle" against Judah is not an authentic part of Amos.  As pointed out in the introduction, Amos, by thus concluding the prophetic denunciations against surrounding nations, including both the pagan neighbors and the pagan relatives of Israel, it would have been absolutely impossible for Amos, in any logical sense, to have proceeded to announce the destruction of Israel, without, at the same time, denouncing the apostasy of his own country, Judah.  The critics, however, intent on affirming just such a proposition, like to make it out that Amos considered Judah and Israel as a single family!  "Therefore, he would not have uttered a special oracle against Judah!"[10] What is an argument like that?  It is a denial based upon what someone in the 20th century imagines that Amos thought!  There is no evidence whatever that Amos believed Israel and Judah to be a single family; and, in fact there was not any more basis for such a thought than for believing that Israel and Edom were a single family, for both had a common ancestor.  We receive the following prophecy against Judah, therefore, as indeed a genuine and dependable portion of the true Word of God.