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BEHOLD THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE UPON THE SINFUL KINGDOM - The sinful
kingdom may mean each “sinful kingdom,” as Paul says, God “will
render unto every man according to his deeds - unto them who do not...
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CHAPTER 9
The Passing of a Kingdom and the Coming of the Kingdom
_ 1. The fifth vision: The passing of a kingdom (Amos 9:1) _
2. The coming of the kingdom (Amos 9:11)
Amos 9:1. In his fifth vision...
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THE VISION OF AN AVENGING GOD. The last vision impresses upon Amos the
anger and omnipotence of the supreme ruler and judge. Yahweh is seen
(Amos 9:1) stationed by or over the altar (_i.e._ of Bethel)...
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THE RESTORATION OF GOD'S PEOPLE. This section is probably a
post-exilic appendix to the book. The point of view has changed, the
fate of Israel being quite different from that contemplated in the
rest...
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BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_. App-6.
SINFUL. Hebrew. _chata_. App-44.
EARTH. ground, or soil. Hebrew adamah....
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Jehovah's eyes are against (Job 7:8) the sinful kingdom, whatsoever or
wheresoever it be, and He will destroy it from off the face of the
earth (Deuteronomy 6:15), save only, if the kingdom be that of...
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_the house of Jacob … the house of Israel_ i.e. (cf. Amos 5:1; Amos
5:4; Amos 5:6; Amos 6:14; Amos 7:10;...
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An objection met. The Israelites were only too ready to argue (cf.
Amos 3:2; Jeremiah 7:1-15) that Jehovah, after the many marks of
favour which He had bestowed upon His people, would never cast them...
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THE LORD HE IS GOD -- AMOS 9:7-10 : God wanted it understood that not
only was Israel dependent upon God but that the entire world stood in
total dependence on the Almighty. "Are you not like the Cush...
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DESCRIPTION OF JUDGMENTS PROPHESIEDDISRUPTION AND DISPERSION
TEXT: Amos 9:7-10
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Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of
Israel? saith Jehovah. Have not I brought up Isr...
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Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I
will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not
utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.
BEHOLD...
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THE CONCLUDING VISION AND A DISCOURSE. COMFORTABLE WORDS
1. The vision.
2-10. The discourse, declaring that none shall evade God's judgments
(Amos 9:2); that Israel stands in no peculiar relationship...
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THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD
AMOS
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 9
GOD’S JUDGEMENT AGAINST ISRAEL
V1 I saw the *Lord standing by the *altar.
He said: ‘Hit the top of the columns....
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SINFUL NATION. — The kingdom of the ten tribes which had so utterly
revolted from the true centre and spiritual ideas of the worship of
Jehovah....
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הִנֵּ֞ה עֵינֵ֣י ׀ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֗ה
בַּ † מַּמְלָכָה֙...
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3. THE VOICES OF ANOTHER DAWN
Amos 9:7
And now we are come to the part where, as it seems, voices of another
day mingle with that of Amos, and silence his judgments in the chorus
of their unbroken ho...
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THE DAY OF RESTORATION
Amos 9:1-15
The guilty will certainly be punished. If they enter the sacred place
of worship, even that will not shelter them, Amos 9:1. Flight and
concealment will be in vain....
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The final vision was of judgment executed. In this there was no
symbol, no sign. We hear the manifesto of Jehovah Himself. It is one
of the most awe-inspiring visions of the whole Bible.
The message p...
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Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD [are] upon the sinful kingdom, and I
will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not
utterly (g) destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.
(g...
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"Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I
will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not
utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD. (9) For,...
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Lectures on the Minor Prophets.
W. Kelly.
"The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw
concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days
of Jeroboam the...
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Here the Prophet concludes that God would take vengeance on the
Israelites as on other nations, without any difference; for they could
not set up anything to prevent his judgment. It was indeed an
ext...
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Chapter 9 presents Jehovah Himself as directing the judgment in such a
manner that Israel should in no wise escape it, God treating them as
He would the nations that were strangers to Him, as the Phil...
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BEHOLD, THE EYES OF THE LORD GOD [ARE] UPON THE SINFUL KINGDOM,....
God is omniscient, and his eyes are everywhere, and upon all persons,
good and bad, and upon all kingdoms, especially upon a sinful...
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Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD [are] upon the sinful kingdom, and I
will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not
utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.
Ver. 8...
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_The eyes of the Lord are upon the sinful kingdom_ See Amos 9:4.
_Saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob_ God still
promises to preserve a remnant in the midst of his heaviest judgm...
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Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, directed
against it to work His punishment, AND I WILL DESTROY IT FROM OFF THE
FACE OF THE EARTH, namely, the sinful people as such, SAVIN...
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THE WICKED KINGDOM OVERTHROWN...
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1-10 The prophet, in vision, saw the Lord standing upon the
idolatrous altar at Bethel. Wherever sinners flee from God's justice,
it will overtake them. Those whom God brings to heaven by his grace,...
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BEHOLD; consider things better, and argue more like men of reason. THE
EYES OF THE LORD GOD; God of infinite purity and knowledge, whose
nature hateth all sin, and whose office it is to punish sinners...
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Amos 9:8 eyes H5869 Lord H136 GOD H3069 sinful H2403 kingdom H4467
destroy H8045 (H8689) face H6440 earth...
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YHWH WILL INEXORABLY DEAL IN JUDGMENT WITH HIS PEOPLE, WHO HAVE
FORGOTTEN WHO AND WHAT HE REALLY IS, AND THERE WILL THEREFORE BE NO
HIDING PLACE FOR THEM (AMOS 9:1).
There is something genuinely aweso...
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CONTENTS: Final prophecy of dispersion of Israel and their ultimate
restoration and blessing in the kingdom age.
CHARACTERS: God, Amos.
CONCLUSION: The sword of war is the sword of divine vengeance,...
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Amos 9:1. _I saw the Lord standing upon the altar_ in Jerusalem, as in
Isaiah 6:1, and Ezekiel 9:3. Here the prophet heard the awful words,
that God would hunt the idolaters from all their hiding plac...
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_Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto Me, O children of
Israel?_
SIN DISSOLVING THE UNION BETWEEN GOD AND HIS PEOPLE
1. These verses strike at the root of all Israel’s fancied security.
They...
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AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 9:1 This final vision has two parts, one negative
(vv. Amos 9:1) and the other positive (vv. Amos 9:11). God considers
wo
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
AMOS 9:9.] The figure explains how. FOR] God will disperse Israel,
shake them with other nations. Wheat and chaff are mixed together. The
wicked, chaff and dust, fall through the siev...
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_HOMILETICS_
CRITICAL NOTES.]
AMOS 9:7. AS CHILDREN] No longer highly favoured Israelites, but
acting like Cushites. Their election of no avail. They had become like
the heathen, accursed as Ham, bla...
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EXPOSITION
AMOS 9:1
§ 6_. The fifth vision displays the Lord standing by the altar and
_commanding the destruction of the temple (Amos 9:1). No one shall
escape this judgment, flee whither he will (A...
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Now in chapter 9 the final prophecy of Amos, he said,
I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel
of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all
of the...
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1 Kings 13:34; Amos 9:4; Deuteronomy 4:31; Deuteronomy 6:15; Genesis
6:7
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The sinful kingdom — Every sinful kingdom....