PREPARE TO MEET YOUR GOD Amos 4:12 Rebellious Israel was headed to captivity. They would not repent of their sins in spite of all the prophets warnings and the consequences God continually sent upon them. Amos. 4:6-11 details some of the reproofs. They lacked food, had rains withheld from them to the extent that their cities ran out of water, suffered every type of natural disaster and horrible losses in war. In spite of all of these punishments that decimated them to the point that their destruction was compared to Sodom and Gomorrah, the scriptures repeatedly state, Yet you have not returned to Me. (vss. 6,8,10,11) With all that they had suffered, they might have thought that though they were shaken, they were still standing in spite of all that God had to throw at them, and they might yet be all right. Any who might have thought this way were greatly mistaken. Though God had done so much to them, He had not yet begun to exhaust the reservoirs of His resources. That insubordinate people would soon have to meet God fully in judgment. So Amos warned, Therefore, thus I will do to you, O Israel; Because I shall do this to you, Prepare to meet your God, O Israel. (vs. 12) What at horrible thought to have to meet God after having lived so immorally. Meeting God under such circumstance is akin to the sheriff taking the felon from his cell and saying, Time to face the judge. We might not think ourselves to be (or in fact be) as bad as ancient Israel, but we must still seriously consider Amos admonition, Prepare to meet your God because we will all meet Him. Let us carefully consider this admonition word by word, from last to first.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 10:46:30 +0000
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