The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
Amos, whose name means burdened, was a herdsman and shepherd of Tekoa in Judea who prophesied at Bethel in the reigns of Uzziah king of Judah and Jeroboam II king of Israel while burdened for his people. He was accused of treason by the priests and expelled from the northern kingdom to which many of his prophecies referred. Amos 7 belongs to his prophecy to the northern kingdom, where he condemned Israel's idolatry and injustice and warned that privilege carried responsibility and that failure to live up to received light would bring punishment.
The verse is part of what the Lord Jehovah showed Amos to declare to both houses of Israel as a decided message to the wicked kingdoms of Israel and Judah to turn from their sins, put away their idols, and worship God. It told them of pestilences and sure destruction that would certainly follow their course of sin and how offensive their doings were in God's sight. Like the setting of a plumbline in their midst, the message made apparent their crookedness and broken-down condition, leading to the declaration that the end is come upon God's people Israel and He will not again pass by them any more.
The prophecy foretells the downfall of apostasy and points forward from that to the last days when there shall be a famine of the Word. It is full of striking illustrations from shepherd life, with striking coincidences between its predictions and those of Joel, whose local illustrations are typical of calamities preceding the great day of Jehovah and the time of war and trouble closing earth's history. Amos 7 shows that political and national corruption was foretold in Scripture and brings decay and ruin. The verse records the Lord's response to a plea in Amos's vision: He relented, withdrew the threatened judgment, and declared that the disaster would not happen, showing divine compassion in response to the appeal.
Amos, whose name means burdened, was a herdsman and shepherd of Tekoa in Judea who prophesied at Bethel in the reigns of Uzziah king of Judah and Jeroboam II king of Israel while burdened for his people. He was accused of treason by the priests and expelled from the northern kingdom to which many of his prophecies referred. Amos 7 belongs to his prophecy to the northern kingdom, where he condemned Israel's idolatry and injustice and warned that privilege carried responsibility and that failure to live up to received light would bring punishment.
The verse is part of what the Lord Jehovah showed Amos to declare to both houses of Israel as a decided message to the wicked kingdoms of Israel and Judah to turn from their sins, put away their idols, and worship God. It told them of pestilences and sure destruction that would certainly follow their course of sin and how offensive their doings were in God's sight. Like the setting of a plumbline in their midst, the message made apparent their crookedness and broken-down condition, leading to the declaration that the end is come upon God's people Israel and He will not again pass by them any more.
The prophecy foretells the downfall of apostasy and points forward from that to the last days when there shall be a famine of the Word. It is full of striking illustrations from shepherd life, with striking coincidences between its predictions and those of Joel, whose local illustrations are typical of calamities preceding the great day of Jehovah and the time of war and trouble closing earth's history. Amos 7 shows that political and national corruption was foretold in Scripture and brings decay and ruin. The verse records the Lord's response to a plea in Amos's vision: He relented, withdrew the threatened judgment, and declared that the disaster would not happen, showing divine compassion in response to the appeal.