Good Morning. Before the Lord issues punishment to His erring children He normally sends a warning. In In Amos 1:2 we see the Lord sending a warning to the children of Israel that He will act against them because of their transgressions. The word of the Lord said, ‘And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.” Matthew Henry in his commentary on this verse said, “The Lord will roar from Zion. His threatenings by his prophets, and the executions of those threatenings in his providence, will be as terrible as the roaring of a lion is to the shepherds and their flocks. Amos here speaks the same language with his contemporaries, Hosea (ch. 11:10) and Joel, ch. 3:16. The lion roars before he tears; God gives warning before he strikes. Observe, 1. Whence this warning comes-from Zion and Jerusalem, from the oracles of God there delivered; for by them is they servant warned, Ps. 19:11. Our God, whose special residence is there, will issue out warrants, given at that court, as it were, for the executing of judgments on the land. See Jer. 25:30. In Zion was the mercy-seat; thence the Lord roars, intimating that Gods acts of justice are consistent with mercy, allayed and mitigated by mercy, nay, as they are warnings, they are really acts of mercy. We are chastened, that we may be not be condemned.” The same way God sent his warning to the children of Israel as an act of mercy, God is doing the same thing to us this morning. If we want to be spared from the wrath of God, we need to repent of our transgressions and allow the Holy Spirit to change our heart. God of mercy and compassion look with pity upon me - https://youtube/watch?v=Jc_JfqzdS2U Have a blessed and Holy Spirit-filled day.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 09:23:20 +0000
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