Flight will perish from the swift; And the strong won't strengthen his force; Neither shall the mighty deliver himself;
We have the words repeated eight times that, "Thus saith Jehovah," making God Himself the author of these words, not Amos.  Furthermore, there is no known recurrence of this formula anywhere else in the literature of all nations.  It is therefore not a stereotype.  We believe that there is an eternal message in this eight-fold warning.  The three and four pattern holds good for the whole world of Adam's race.  Adam's race has already been judicially hardened THREE TIMES; and the FOURTH AND FINAL TIME (perhaps even now beginning) will usher in the SECOND ADVENT AND FINAL JUDGMENT OF ADAM'S REBELLIOUS RACE!