Amos 8:11\n11Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:\n(KJV)\n\nAmos 8:12\n12And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.\n(KJV)
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It is true now and read below to soak in the full meaning.\n\n"I hope the seriousness of these verses will strike all of us to the very marrow of our being. Israel had rejected the word of God and had gone after idols. They had fallen into a depth of iniquity that has rarely been equaled in human history. God had sent various judgments upon them but they had not repented.\n\nWhen Amos began to cry out against the sin of Israel, he was rejected. The religious and political leaders tried to send him packing. Amos 7:12-13 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court. This is the king’s chapel. This is where the king goes to church and you ought to bridle your tongue, round the corners and water down what you say in this place. Do you want to embarrass the king? Go down into the land of Judah, that unsophisticated portion of the nation, and do your preaching against sin down there. We are a gentle people here. We pride ourselves in our liberal attitude. Leave us alone here in the kings court. \n\nDid God have Amos tone down his message? Absolutely not! God warns them of the worst famine yet, a famine of not hearing the word of God. No judgment brought upon a nation can equal this kind of judgment. The day would come when they would run to and fro in the land seeking the word of God and could not find it. They would go from sea to sea and from the north to the east seeking the word of God and would not find it. Their young people would faint from thirst, a thirst to hear the word of God expounded but to no avail.\n\nThere are several things that are suggested in this text to which I would call your careful and sober attention.\n\nWE SHOULD REMEMBER THAT\n\nFAMINE WAS NO STRANGER TO ISRAEL\n\nFamine was no stranger to Israel. They knew what it was to run hither and yon seeking food. They had the history of their nation written in the five books of Moses and knew there had been famine before. \n\nWe read of a famine in the land in the early days of Abraham. Genesis 12:10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land. This was bad enough that Abram had to leave the land and go down into the land of Egypt for the duration of the dearth.\n\nIn the days of Isaac there was another serious famine. Genesis 26:1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. Instead of Egypt, Isaac went to the Philistines for sustenance during the famine.\n\nThen there was the famine in the days of Jacob and Joseph which drove Jacob and his family to Egypt to live. The account of this famine and circumstances in it take up several chapters in Genesis beginning with chapter 41.\n\nThis was a seven year famine. Genesis 41:30 And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land. One can only imagine the suffering. This famine was very serious. Seven years in duration and the people suffered greatly in all the lands. Genesis 41:57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands. Seven months would be a long time to go without rain. I can’t imagine the effects of seven years.\n\nThis famine was not just in that particular part of the world; it extended over all the known inhabited earth. Genesis 41:56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt. Even Egypt suffered in the latter years of the famine. Genesis 47:13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of E
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From the King James Verson in Matthew 15:14\n\n"Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."\n\nIn the Webster version the quote is:\n\n"Let them alone: they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leadeth the blind, both will fall into the ditch."
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It is at least seven years away. The world is unraveling, the one world government is around the corner. God is in the process of cleansing His people, getting rid of the chaff. Soon, Christ will come for His bride, His church. Then, the Holy Spirit will be removed and the man of sin will ascend to power, then the count down begins. \n\n2Pe 3:3  first, knowing this, that during the last days scoffers will come walking according to their own lusts, \n2Pe 3:4  and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? For from which time the fathers fell asleep, all things remain so from the beginning of creation. \n2Pe 3:5  For this is hidden from them by their willing it so, that heavens were of old, and earth by water, and through water, having subsisted by the Word of God, \n2Pe 3:6  through which the world which then was, being flooded by water, perished. \n2Pe 3:7  But the heavens and the earth now, having been stored up by the same Word, are being kept for fire to a day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. \n2Pe 3:8  But let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is "as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." Psa. 90:4 \n2Pe 3:9  The Lord of the promise is not slow, as some deem slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not having purposed any to perish, but all to come to repentance. \n2Pe 3:10  But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with rushing sound, and having burned the elements will be dissolved, and earth and the works in it will be burned up. \n2Pe 3:11  Then all these being about to be dissolved, of what sort ought you to be in holy behavior and godliness,
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It has been only about a month since the Israelites left Egypt. They are in the wilderness. Little food grows here, and so the people complain, saying: ‘We wish that Jehovah had killed us in Egypt. At least there we had all the food that we wanted.’\n\nSo Jehovah says: ‘I am going to cause food to rain down from the sky.’ And this is what Jehovah does. The next morning when the Israelites see this white stuff that has fallen, they ask one another: ‘What is it?’\n\nThe main food of the Israelites during their 40-year trek in the wilderness.  It served as food for them until they entered Canaan in 1473 B.C.E. and partook of the produce of the Promised Land.\n\nManna appeared on the ground with the evaporation of a layer of dew that developed in the morning, so that “upon the surface of the wilderness there was a fine flaky thing, fine like hoarfrost upon the earth.” When the Israelites first saw it, they said, “What is it?” or, literally, “man hu’?”\n\nManna was “white like coriander seed” and had the “look” of bdellium gum, a waxlike and transparent substance having a form that resembles a pearl. Its taste was comparable to “that of flat cakes with honey” or “an oiled sweet cake.” After being ground in a hand mill or pounded in a mortar, manna was boiled or made into cakes and baked.\n\nNo natural substance known today fits the Biblical description of manna in every respect, and so there is little basis for identifying it with a known product. This is especially so because miraculous aspects were involved in Jehovah’s providing manna for the Israelites. The availability of manna did not depend on the time of year or a particular wilderness location. \n\nAlthough the manna would breed worms and begin to stink on all the other days if kept overnight, the additional omer of manna gathered on the sixth day, to be used as food on the Sabbath, did not spoil. No manna could be found on the Sabbath, this serving to enforce Sabbath observance on the Israelites.
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THE POOR RAISED UP OUT OF THE DUST, AND THE BEGGAR LIFTED UP FROM THE DUNGHILL (Part 1)\nPreached at Eden Street Chapel, Hampstead Road, on Lord’s Day Morning, August 20, 1843.\n"He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s and he hath set the world upon them."- 1Sa 2:8\nMOST of you are probably familiar, not only with the name of the person who uttered these words, but also with the circumstances under which they were spoken by her. But lest any should not immediately recollect the passage, I will just observe that they are the words of Hannah, the mother of the prophet Samuel, and that the circumstances under which they were spoken, were when she brought her infant son, and presented him before the Lord, that he might be his for ever. Her heart, it appears, was then so enlarged, and her soul so comforted and strengthened by beholding her infant son as the manifested answer to her prayers, that she burst forth into that song of thanksgiving of which the text forms a portion.\n\nBut before I enter into the experimental meaning of the text, it may be desirable, with God’s blessing, to trace out a few leading particulars of Hannah’s case.\n\nI believe, that, in Scripture, there are typical characters, as well as what are more properly called "types", or typical things; and Hannah appears to me to have been one of these typical characters. By typical characters, in this sense, I mean, not in the same way as Aaron, or Solomon, were types of Christ, but certain persons whose history and experience are typical or representative of God’s dealings with his people, or of characters that should arise in the church. The history of Hannah affords us more than one instance of these typical characters. We read, for instance, 1Sa 1:1,2 that "Elkanah had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah; and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children." Elkanah seems to me to typify the Lord Jesus-I think we may fairly assume this without doing violence to the figure; and his two wives seem to represent the church, Peninnah the professing, and Hannah the possessing church. Let us see if the figure will bear us out in this interpretation. Peninnah, in type, represents the professing church. As having a form of godliness, and a name to live, she had a vast superiority outwardly over her rival, for she was fruitful, whilst Hannah was barren. This points out the superiority, in outward fruit, which many professors have over God’s spiritually-taught children. But we may observe that in Peninnah’s fruitfullness there was nothing manifested of a supernatural character. She had children in the common course of nature, as other married women have them; there was nothing peculiarly providential, nothing eminently striking, nothing miraculous; but all took place in the usual course.\n\nNow this strikingly represents the way in which mere professors of religion bring forth their good works. The fruits they produce are not wrought in them by miracle; they do not spring out of a supernatural operation upon their consciences; but they are brought forth, from time to time, in the mere course of nature, without any galling disappointment on account of previous barrenness, without any earnest cry that the Lord would work powerfully in their soul, without any manifested answer to the prayer that he would make them fruitful in every good word and work. But these good works and religious performances, on which they pride themselves so highly, are brought forth by them in the usual course of nature, by the mere exertion of the creature, utterly independent of any work of the Holy Ghost upon their heart.\n\nBut this fruitfullness of Peninnah much galled and pained her barren rival, as the zeal, devotedness, piety and amiability, evide
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Jesus never said that and they verse you are thinking of is \n\nGen 38:9 And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled [it] on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.\n\nread the whole chapter
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Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. \n\nThis is one of my favorite promises, one of the 10 Commandments.  It is the only one of the 10 commandments which offers a promise of long life if you but honor your father and mother.
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against nature, contrary to nature\nI don't know what God thought but the story of Ruth & Naomoi\nRuth 1:14 Ruth clave onto her, same as Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh
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The bible is 'Gods' word to us.It says to pray without ceasing. That means on a daily basis.I have had prayers that haven't ''yet'' been answered. They are still in his care waiting for right time or till I realize it isn't His will for my life, and I find peace about it.Hang in and hang on..God is faithful.   ''He is able to do exceedingly ,abuntdantly above that which  I ask or think''
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(2 Samuel 12:11-14 NAB)\n\nThus says the Lord: 'I will bring evil upon you out of your own house.  I will take your wives [plural] while you live to see it, and will give them to your neighbor.  He shall lie with your wives in broad daylight.  You have done this deed in secret, but I will bring it about in the presence of all Israel, and with the sun looking down.'\n\n    Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord."  Nathan answered David: "The Lord on his part has forgiven your sin: you shall not die.  But since you have utterly spurned the Lord by this deed, the child born to you must surely die."  [The child dies seven days later.]
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If you're referring to Malachi 3:10, it says this:\n\n(NIV) 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.\n\n(KJV) 10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.\n\nThis scripture is in response to the descendants of Jacob robbing from God by not paying their tithe.  This is the only time in the Bible where God says "test me."
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Here it is from Exodus 20:1-17.\n\nExodus 20\nThe Ten Commandments \n 1 And God spoke all these words: \n 2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. \n\n 3 "You shall have no other gods before [a] me. \n\n 4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand {generations} of those who love me and keep my commandments. \n\n 7 "You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. \n\n 8 "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. \n\n 12 "Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you. \n\n 13 "You shall not murder. \n\n 14 "You shall not commit adultery. \n\n 15 "You shall not steal. \n\n 16 "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. \n\n 17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
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The account is found at Numbers 20:1-13; Deuteronomy  32:50-52; and enlarged upon at Psalms 106:32, 33.\n\nWhile Israel was encamped at Kadesh, Moses made a serious mistake. Moses not only was in a highly privileged position but also was under weighty responsibility to God as leader and mediator for the nation. Because of a water shortage the people began to argue with Moses, blaming him for leading them out of Egypt into the barren wilderness. Moses had endured much, putting up with their perverseness and insubordination, their constant bickering and complaining, their repeated displays of a lack of faith.  He also had been sharing their hardships, and interceding on their behalf when they sinned, but for one moment, he lost his meekness and mildness of temper.  Exasperated, Moses and Aaron stood before the people as Jehovah commanded.  But instead of calling attention to God as the Provider, they spoke harshly to the people and directed attention to themselves, Moses saying: “Hear, now, you rebels! Is it from this crag that WE shall bring out water for you?” With that, he struck the rock and God caused water to flow.  But God was greatly displeased with the conduct of Moses and Aaron. They had failed of their primary responsibility, namely, to magnify God’s name.
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In Zechariah 2:8 there's a passage which says, "Israel is the apple of my eye and whoever touches Israel I will deal with them.\n\n" Now, what's the apple of your eye? The "apple" is the very center of the eye; it's the pupil. It is the most sensitive \npart of the body. So, God says, "When you touch the \nmost sensitive part of my body, you are touching me \nand I'm going to deal with you." \n\nPeople ought to learn that from history; Egypt had to learn it; the \nAmalekites had to learn it. The Romans, Greeks, \nSyrians, Babylonians, the Ottoman Empire, the \nCrusaders, Spain, Germany and England and many more \nhad to learn it. \n\nIsrael is the apple of God's eye; not that \nthey're perfect because there are inequities in some \nof the things that Israel does and has done. I'm not \nsaying everything is right in Israel, but God has made \na covenant promise to the nation of Israel and God \nsays, "Whoever curses Israel, I will curse; whoever \nblesses Israel," He says, "I will bless." \n\n\nGenesis 12:1-3\n\nIn these three verses we find three of the most important promises ever given to a man. They were given to Abram or Abraham, as he would later be called. In this passage God promised Abraham three things:\n\na. That out of his loins would come the greatest nation on earth, a people so great in multitude that they could not be numbered by the stars or the sand of the sea: In Genesis 22:17, God said, "That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore." \n\nb. God promised Abraham a land--a land "flowing with milk and honey." It is the land the Bible refers to as the Land of Israel. Israel was the name God gave to Jacob, the son of Isaac, who was the son of Abraham. God repeated these promises both to Isaac, and to Jacob. And let me add; God has never rescinded His promise concerning the Land He gave to Israel--it has always been the Land of Israel and will always remain the Land of Israel.\n\nQUOTE: During the hearing of the British Royal Commission on Palestine in 1937, David Ben Gurion, chairman of the executive committee of the Jewish agency for Palestine, affirmed: "The Bible is our mandate. The mandate of the League is only recognition of this right and does not establish new things." The land has always belonged to Israel.
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Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. \n\n 2I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. \n\n 3I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. \n\n 4They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away. \n\n 5O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. \n\n 6Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel. \n\n 7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. \n\n 8I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children. \n\n 9For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. \n\n 10When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. \n\n 11I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them. \n\n 12They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards. \n\n 13But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. \n\n 14Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. \n\n 15Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. \n\n 16Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. \n\n 17And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. \n\n 18Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies. \n\n 19Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee. \n\n 20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. \n\n 21They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. \n\n 22Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. \n\n 23Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. \n\n 24Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. \n\n 25Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents. \n\n 26For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. \n\n 27Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness. \n\n 28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. \n\n 29But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. \n\n 30I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. \n\n 31This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs. \n\n 32The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God. \n\n 33For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners. \n\n 34Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein. \n\n 35For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession. \n\n 36The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
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Prophecy \nIn that day . . . I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in broad daylight (NKJV). Amos 8:9 \n Fulfillment \nFrom the sixth hour [noon] until the ninth hour [3 pm] there was darkness over all the land (NKJV). Matt. 27:45 \n \n  \nComment \nWhat a remarkable prophecy! The sun will darken at noon during broad daylight. Amos predicted this somewhere between 760 and 753 B.C. The sky would darken and it did happen during Jesus' death. Not only do the gospels say it actually happened but secular scientists and historians knew it occurred and sought a natural physical explanation. This is a significant prophecy.
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Scriptureman says:\n\nPsa 9:17  The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.