Answers from Amos

I’ve been studying Elohim’s word this morning, and I was led to open up the little Book of Amos. I read all nine chapters. Somehow, I sensed that the answer to the question I asked in the previous post might be found therein. That question was how do we get to the next stage in our spiritual walk?

I can’t say that I have the full answer, but some spiritual insights were garnered.

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The bottom line is that we need a fresh prophetic vision — a divine revelation of where YHVH wants us to go next.

It goes back to Proverbs 29:18, which says that without prophetic vision, YHVH’s people perish or become unloosened spiritually. Additionally, all prophetic vision should be on a solid Torah foundation — something that doesn’t exist among the so-called prophets in the contemporary mainstream church  system.

Amos explains the role of the prophet and how people really don’t want to hear YHVH speak to them through his servants, the prophets, much less obey the word of Elohim they’re proclaiming. So why then should YHVH send them his prophets if his people refuse to hear and to obey?

Though I’m not a prophet, as a servant of the Most High, I should be speaking prophetically as inspired by the Holy Spirit. This applies to you too. When a Bible teacher or preacher gets up in front of others to speak, he should do so prophetically; that is, in an inspired way that brings forth divine revelation from the word of Elohim. The problem is that most people start to shut the preacher off when he urges them to repent of sin. As a preacher, I can tell you this is the case. Almost every time I preach a message of repentance, someone gets offended and blames me for their angst. Instead of looking at themselves in the mirror and conforming their lives to the word of Elohim, they make excuses why it doesn’t apply to them, and then they shoot the messenger. Frankly, it get’s tiring after a while!

Okay, enough of this. Let’s see what Amos had to say. Here are some insights from this prophet I gathered this morning.

Amos 8:11, A famine…of hearing. Hearing is the Hebrew word shema, which has the compound meaning of both hearing and doing. In our modern world, the word of Elohim is more proliferated than ever before, especially with the advent of the internet. Many people have access to Elohim’s word and hear it, but very few actually do it. There are many people who are religiously active following the traditions and doctrines of men, but very few who actually read, study and then actually bring their lives into conformity with the actual word of Elohim. To do so is the biblical definition of hearing.

Amos 8:12, Run to and fro. Not only is there a famine “of hearing the words” of YHVH, but the prophetic word of Elohim is also scarce, and people are running to and fro seeking it.

Earlier in the Book of Amos, YHVH promises to do nothing except that he reveals it first to his servants the prophets (Amos 3:7). The prophet throughout his little book rebukes the people of his day for their greed, idolatry, injustice, pride and their refusal to repent of their errant spiritual ways.

Perhaps it was because of Israel’s state of spiritual apostasy that prophets were so scarce in that day, which is why people were having to run to and fro over long distances seeking a true prophetic word from Elohim.

We read in Proverbs that without a prophetic vision from Elohim that is based on a solid foundation of Torah, YHVH’s people perish or become spiritual unloosened or unrestrained (Prov 29:18).

There are plenty of carnal or profane prophets in the modern church who prophesy out of the dictates of their own hearts without any understanding of the Torah and do little good for the spiritual well-being of YHVH’s people (see Jer 23; Isa 28; Ezek 13; 28).

In addition to that, when a true prophet would speak, Amos complained that the people hated hearing such a prophet (Amos 5:10). The same is true today. People are people. Why should YHVH send one of his prophets to such people? The people won’t hear him anyway.

It’s ironic how YHVH’s people have this strong yearning to hear a prophetic word from YHVH (probably because of the human yearning to divine the future), but when he sends one of his true prophets to deliver it, the people refuse to hear it (because with future predictions of YHVH’s prophets comes the message of repenting of sin,which people don’t want to hear). Ezekiel noted this proclivity of YHVH’s people and complained about the problem (Ezek 33:30–33). The people want to hear the prophet’s words, but they don’t want to obey the word of YHVH because it goes against their carnal desires (Ezek 33:31).

Ezekiel goes on to predict that eventually, though each generation tends to reject the prophets YHVH sends to them, once the prophets are dead, subsequent generations would recognize them as true prophets (Ezek 33:33). Indeed this was the case, for later generations of Jews accepted those rejected prophets as divinely sent and put their writings into the canon of Scripture.

Yeshua noted this phenomenon in the Gospels (Luke 112:46–51 cp. Matt 23:31–36). That generation now accepted the prophets of old that their forefathers had rejected, but following in the same path as their forefathers, and in their own day, they rejected Yeshua — the greatest Prophet of all.

All this is to say that often we need a fresh prophetic vision from YHVH Elohim, and when it comes, it will demand that we make changes in  our lives involving repentance from sin. If we want to go to the next level in our spiritual walk, we have to pass this test. This means hearing and doing the words of the prophet and accepting the fresh prophetic vision that YHVH sends to us without rejecting either the prophet of the vision.

I’m looking for that fresh vision.

 

3 thoughts on “Answers from Amos

  1. this was an interesting one, some people just don’t want to listen maybe there just scared? now if I can find out what in the world the dream I had last night would be great sometimes God talks to us that way this was a odd one well you call them sage I was standing outside and this blonde went in the temple by herself and he got mad and said now I have t get rid of the scroll I say scroll but I think it is called Torah he was looking like moses that is the best visual I can send you but he wasn’t he had his wife next to him they were wearing odd clothes dress clothes like very light brown like they did along time ago, now this gets odd he had golden hooves as a foot the gold was shinny like new and he was nailing the scroll to a wood board each side and them some women came in and nailed needles by the side but I told her to go and I gave the needles to his wife and he looked at me and said something but I can’t remember he had the bluest eyes and he said one thing I remember” now you know booth” that’s all, both walk away, now if you can explain that one would be great.. the feet were so odd I never dreamed of hooves specially on a holy man..have a nice Sabbath..

  2. Thank you, very good! I love reading the Prophets! Repenting should be a life style, it is for me. The more I want to do Right in Yahweh’s Sight, the more I find I am doing wrong!
    I want a fresh Thing from Y’shua Also, I am waiting for an old Thing to be fulfilled!

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