This is Daniel Whyte III president of Gospel Light Society International with The Scripture & the Sense Podcast #454, where I read the Word of God and give the sense of it based on an authoritative commentary source such as the Bible Knowledge Commentary or Matthew Henry Commentary. This podcast is based upon Nehemiah 8:8 where it says Ezra and the Levites “read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.” The aim of this podcast is that through the simple reading of the Word of God and the giving of the sense of it, the church would be revived and the world would be awakened.
Today we are reading Amos 5:8-9.
8 Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name:
9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
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That was Amos 5:8-9. Now here is the sense of it.
The Bible Knowledge Commentary reads:
In the midst of this denunciation of human perversity, Amos identified the God who controlled the workings of the physical universe and who surely, therefore, would overturn the injustice of men. He who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion—the rising of Pleiades before daybreak signaled the return of spring while the rising of Orion after sunset heralded the onset of winter), He who controls the 24-hour cycle of day and night, turning blackness into dawn and day into night, He who controls the elements of nature, gathering by evaporation the waters of the sea and draining them out over … the land—this great Sovereign of the universe is also Israel’s covenant God. The Lord (Yahweh) is His name. And He would judge their covenant faithfulness. This God whose dominion was unchallenged in heaven was also irresistible on earth. Nothing could withstand His destruction—not the mightiest stronghold or the most fortified city.
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