This is Daniel Whyte III president of Gospel Light Society International with The Scripture & the Sense Podcast #470, 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 6:7-8.
7 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
8 The Lord God hath sworn by himself, saith the Lord the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
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That was Amos 6:7-8. Now here is the sense of it.
The Bible Knowledge Commentary reads:
Therefore they, the first men of the first nation, would be among the first to go into exile. Their festivities and drunken stupors would end. The sound of revelry would fade into bitter silence as they headed into captivity. Israel’s sovereign Lord had sworn by Himself, binding the full force of His integrity to a solemn oath, that He would utterly destroy the land. He abhorred their pride as they said their national fortunes resulted from their own strength. Jacob, like Joseph, is a synonym for the Northern Kingdom. God detested the fortresses which were filled with the results of their oppression against the poor. Therefore, as a great suzerain Warrior, He would storm their city, and deliver up everyone and everything in it.
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