Amos 4
Drinking selfish women verse 1
Hear this word – you kine of Bashan
that are in the mountain of Samaria
which oppress the poor
which crush the needy
which say to their masters
Bring and let us drink
Judgment of these women verse 2- 3
The Lord GOD has sworn by HIS holiness
that – lo – the days shall come upon you
THAT HE will take you away with hooks
and your posterity with fishhooks
AND you shall go out at the breaches
every cow at that which is before her
and you shall cast them into the palaces
says the LORD
False religion condemned verse 4- 5
Come to Beth-el – and transgress – at Gilgal
multiply transgressions
and bring your sacrifices every morning
and your tithes after three years
and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven
and proclaim and publish the free offerings
FOR this like you – O children of Israel
says the Lord GOD
LORD sent hunger verse 6
And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities
and want of bread in all your places
YET have you not returned unto ME
says the LORD
LORD prevented rain verse 7- 8
ALSO I have withheld the rain from you
when there were yet three months to the harvest
and I caused it to rain upon one city
and caused it to not rain upon another city
one piece was rained upon
and the piece whereupon
it rained not withered
SO two or three cities wandered unto one city
to drink water
BUT they were not satisfied
YET have you not returned to ME
says the LORD
LORD sent blasting and mildew verse 9
I have smitten you
with blasting and mildews
WHEN your gardens – vineyards – fig trees
olive trees INCREASED
the palmerworm DEVOURED them
YET have you not returned unto ME
says the LORD
LORD sent pestilence verse 10
I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt
your young men have I slain with the sword
and have taken away your horses
And I have made the stink of your camps
to come up unto your nostrils
YET have you not returned unto ME
says the LORD
LORD defeated verse 11
I have overthrown some of you
as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah
and you were as a firebrand plucked
out of the burning
YET have you not returned unto ME – says the LORD
Prepare to meet your God verse 12
THEREFORE thus will I do to you – O Israel
AND because I will do this unto you
PREPARE TO MEET YOUR God
O Israel
Sovereignty of God stated verse 13
FOR – lo – HE that formed the mountains
and created the wind
and declared to man what is HIS thoughts
that makes the morning darkness
and treads upon
the high places of the earth
THE LORD – THE God of hosts – IS HIS NAME
COMMENTARY:
DAILY SPIRITUAL BREAKFAST: Young Believers
: 6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have you not returned unto me, says the LORD. (2640 “want” [chocer] means lack of, need, become empty, scarce, be abated, be devoid of or poverty.)
DEVOTION: The phrase “cleanness of teeth” is interesting. If you have nothing to eat your teeth have nothing to get caught in between them. They are clean.
Next HE takes away their only stable food. Bread was very important to the children of Israel. They had it with every meal. I married into a family that is a lover of bread. They have fresh bread at almost every family gathering. My wife makes homemade bread regularly and shares it with our son and his family.
What would happen if you didn’t have your favorite item of food? What would you do? Would you go to the store in the middle of the night to try to find that item?
The children of Israel could not be satisfied if they didn’t have bread. However, the source of all things is the LORD and they didn’t want to go to HIM for their bread. They were stubborn.
When we lack basic necessities what do we do? Do we turn to the LORD and ask HIM to forgive us for not being faithful to HIM. OR do we just continue on our present course of action without realizing that HE is trying to get our attention?
CHALLENGE: If our circumstances seem impossible to conquer, it should cause us to ask why. Then we should go to the LORD in prayer and ask how we can allow HIM to change our circumstances.
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: 7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain on another city: one piece was rained on, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. (4513 “withholden” [mana‘] means keep back, refrain, deny, hinder, or refuse to hand over or share)
DEVOTION: Here we find that the LORD is in control of the weather. HE uses many means to get our attention. HE used the lack of rain to get the attention of the children of Israel.
They were a people who were farmers. They needed rain so that their crops would grow. They needed rain to have enough water to drink. They needed rain so that their animals could live.
God took away their rain so that they would return to HIM. HE had a purpose for a famine. HIS purpose is always to have HIS people come to HIM in prayer and ask for forgiveness of sin.
HE sent disease to the plants so that they were no good to eat. So the people were without a good crop and even what they had wasn’t good to eat.
If a people is thirsty and hungry and still doesn’t return to the LORD. Where do they go? Humans have the feeling that they can conquer any problem themselves without the LORD. They are wrong but we have these same thoughts even today.
CHALLENGE: If the LORD is trying to get your attention by some things that are happening in your life, go to HIM in prayer and ask for wisdom to know what HE is expecting of you.
DAILY SPIRITUAL LUNCH: Transitional Believers
: 8 So two or three cities wandered to one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied; yet have you not returned to ME, says the LORD. (7725 “returned” [shuwb] means to turn away from sin, to turn back, go back, come back, apostatize, repent, or physical motion to point of departure.)
DEVOTION: There is a tendency in the Christian life to wander from the LORD. We still have our sin nature after salvation. We still have a struggle understanding the Christian life. We are still tempted to do and say things that the LORD doesn’t approve of.
Each year there are new trials the LORD allows in our life. HE is not tempting us to sin. God never tempts anyone to sin. HE wants us to grow in our knowledge of HIM and this only happen through suffering.
The children of Israel were faced with famine and instead of repenting and turning from their sins they continued in sin and looked for other sources of help to relieve their thirst.
In this chapter the LORD keeps stating through HIS prophet Amos that no matter what HE sent their way for them to come back to HIM, they didn’t come. The word “return” is used to tell us what the LORD wanted HIS people to do but they didn’t. HE didn’t force them to return but HE gave them opportunity.
We have the same opportunity in our life if we stray from the LORD. HE wants us to return to HIM. If you have strayed don’t stay there, come back to the LORD. HIS arms are open just like the father of the prodigal son.
CHALLENGE: When the LORD repeats a statement through HIS prophet we should even listen today.
DAILY SPIRITUAL SUPPER: Mature Believers
: 12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. (3559 “prepare” [kuwn] means to be firm, be stable, be established, set up, be ready, or be securely determined.)
DEVOTION: The children of Israel were sent five warning of judgment. They were sent prophets to preach the coming captivity. They were sent drought to tell them that the LORD was not pleased with their actions. They were sent armies against them. Cities were destroyed. Natural disasters were sent. The people saw all these things happening around them and yet they would not return to the LORD.
As we look around our world do we see the same types of warnings going on? Is the LORD still trying to communicate with HIS world with natural disasters, war, and famine? Are we listening to HIS warnings? How many more warnings does HE have to send before we will return to HIS standards?
We realize that most of those in the world will never make a decision to follow Christ. They are blinded by sin. They just don’t see the truth of what is happening around them. Satan has them believing lies and liars. They want to listen to people who say they can make their life better. They promise a rose garden but give land full of weeds.
Are we ready to meet our God? In every funeral I preach I present the gospel message to those who are there. Some people only come to funerals and weddings to hear the word of God. They are warned that they have a choice to make concerning their future. Most who don’t know Christ leave the building thinking that they have plenty of time to make a decision to follow the LORD.
One of my friends just died and it only took less than a second before he was in the presence of the LORD. He knew the LORD but many do not. Our responsibility is to warn them of coming judgment and their need to be ready. It is our desire that all in our world would make a decision to follow Jesus. How about those in your world?
God gives enough warning to get the attention of HIS people. IF they don’t respond correctly, HE has to end their life. In the New Testament we are told to examine ourselves so that we can know where we stand with our fellowship with the LORD.
If we don’t respond correctly, HE will send weakness, then sickness and finally pre-mature death.
CHALLENGE: If we stray, we need to return to the LORD through confession and seek a new direction toward HIM. The alternative means an end of life.
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DISCIPLINES OF THE FAITH:
BODY
Chastity (Purity in living)
Fasting (Time alone with LORD without eating or drinking)
Sacrifice (Giving up something we want to serve the LORD)
Sacrifices of Thanksgiving verse 5
Submission (Willing to listen to others and LORD)
Solitude (Going to a quiet place without anyone)
SOUL
Fellowship (Gathering together around the Word of God)
Frugality (wise use of resources)
Tithe verse 4
Journalizing (Writing down what you have learned from the LORD)
Study and Meditation (Thinking through your study in the Word)
Secrecy (Doing your good deeds without others knowing but God)
SPIRIT
Celebration (Gathering around a special occasion to worship LORD)
Confession (Tell the LORD we are sorry for our sins on a daily basis)
Prayer (Conversation with God on a personal level)
Silence (Letting the LORD deal with some problems and needs)
Worship (Time to praise the LORD alone or in a group)
Tithes verse 4
Sacrifices of thanksgiving verse 5
Offerings verse 5
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DOCTRINES OF THE FAITH:
Scripture (66 inerrant books of the Bible)
God the Father (First person of the Godhead)
Lord – Adonai (Owner, Master) verse 2, 5
GOD – Jehovah (Covenant keeping, Personal) verse 2, 5
Lord GOD verse 2, 5
Holiness verse 2
LORD – Jehovah verse 3, 6, 8- 11, 13
Judgment verse 6- 11
Creator verse 13
Declared HIS thoughts verse 13
The God of hosts verse 13
God the Son (Second person of the Godhead –God/man, Messiah)
God the Holy Spirit (Third person of the Godhead – our comforter)
Trinity (Three persons of the Godhead who are co-equal = ONE God)
God – Elohim (Creator, Sovereign, Plural name) verse 11- 13
Angels (Created before the foundation of the world – Good and Evil)
Man (Created on the sixth twenty-four hour period of creation)
Egypt verse 10
Sodom verse 11
Gomorrah verse 11
Sin (Missing the mark set by God on man and angels)
Oppress the poor verse 1
Crush the needy verse 1
Drink verse 1
Transgress/ transgressions verse 4
Not returned to LORD verse 6, 8, 9, 10, 11
Salvation (Provided by Christ’s death on the cross for our sins)
Hear verse 1
Sacrifices verse 4
Tithe verse 4
Thanksgiving verse 5
Return verse 6, 8- 11
Prepare to meet your God verse 12
Israel (Old Testament people of God)
Samaria verse 1
Bethel verse 4
Gilgal verse 4
Children of Israel verse 5 , 12
Church (New Testament people of God)
Last Things (Future Events)
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QUOTES regarding passage
13 A hymnic element, portraying some aspects of the nature of the God the Israelites are to face in judgment, closes this section. For (kî, untr. in NIV) connects v.13 to the preceding reference to God. The word “forms” (yôṣer) refers to God’s activity in creation and is paralleled by “creates” (bōrēʾ). These words are participles in Hebrew. The use of participles is typical of these hymnic elements. This is often used as an argument for their lateness because participial constructions may be found in other poetic celebrations of God’s creative power, especially in “Second Isaiah” (40:22–23, 26–29; 42:5; 44:24; 45:7, 18). This phenomenon also occurs in Jeremiah (10:12–16; 51:15–19) and certain Psalms (94, 104). While the passages in Jeremiah are considered late additions by some scholars, there is good reason to believe that both psalms cited are of preexilic origin (Dahood, AB), thus placing the tradition much earlier than “Second Isaiah.” The reason for the participial structure is difficult to determine. It may be that the Hebrew theology assumed a role for God both in creating and in sustaining his universe. It is also possible that the participial construction may be simply a stylistic device.
The word “form” (yāṣar) has as its basic emphasis the shaping of the object involved, whereas “create” (bārāʾ) emphasizes the initiation of the object. Not only does God form the mountains and create the wind, but he reveals to man “his thoughts” (śēḥó). The word for “thoughts” is never used of God in Hebrew; and, in the light of 3:7, it is unlikely that Amos believed that God revealed his thoughts to all people. It is best to apply the suffix ô (“his”) to man and understand the verse to speak of God’s activity in searching the hearts of all mankind and revealing their thoughts and motives.
In describing God’s treading the high places of the earth, the hymn takes on a theophanic tone. The Hebrew word for “high places” (bāmāh) basically means “height.” It may refer to pagan religious sanctuaries (Jer 7:31); but in the cosmic atmosphere of this hymn, it must refer to the mountains and hills. In ancient times possession of the heights of enemy territory meant that the enemy was virtually brought into subjection (Deut 33:29; Ezek 36:2). The majestic metaphor of God striding over the hills and mountains shows his sovereignty over the earth. A similar theophany occurs at the beginning of Micah, where it precedes the description of God’s judgment in Samaria and Jerusalem (1:3–7; 3:9–12). The theophany presages judgment, as God steps into history and treads the heights of the earth. The prophets’ theophanic language, depicting God’s presence in the events of history and in natural phenomena, shows their belief in his immanence.
The awe this picture brings is heightened by the last line: “the Lord God Almighty” (YHWH ʾelōhê-ṣeḇaʾôṯ, lit., “Lord God of Hosts”). The “hosts” are generally taken to be either the heavenly bodies or the armies of heaven. While the latter is probably the best alternative, YHWH ʾelōhê-ṣeḇaʾôṯ certainly connotes the vast power of the God of heaven and earth.
In one bold sweep, this hymn shows the sovereignty of God—from his creation of the world to his daily summoning of the dawn, from his intervention in history to his revelation of mankind’s thoughts. Every believer can take comfort in the fact that, while sometimes it seems that God does not interfere in human affairs, the world is never out of his control. His sovereignty extends to every aspect of human experience.
This brief but sublime hymn is so in keeping with Amos’s preceding words and lends such a note of finality to his message that its authenticity should be given fairer consideration. It implies the right of the Creator to judge his people and points to the divine judgment that is so vital a part of Amos’s prophecy. (McComiskey, T. E. (1986). Amos. In F. E. Gaebelein (Ed.), The Expositor’s Bible Commentary: Daniel and the Minor Prophets (Vol. 7, pp. 307–308). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House.)
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4:13. Amos likened God’s terrifying approach in judgment to the darkening of a storm. The One who formed the mountains and created the wind now covered those high places with churning clouds. The early dawn turned back to eerie darkness as black swells unfolded to shroud the earth. The flash of lightning and the reverberation of thunder marked God’s ominous “tread” from one hilltop to another as He approached the Northern capital (cf. Micah 1:3–5). God had revealed His thoughts to man; His intent to judge had been made known (Amos 3:7). Now, as the Lord God Almighty (see comments on 3:13), Commander of all forces in heaven and earth, advanced against them. Their judgment was inescapable. (Sunukjian, D. R. (1985). Amos. In J. F. Walvoord & R. B. Zuck (Eds.), The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures (Vol. 1, pp. 1437–1438). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.)
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Ultimate judgment (vv. Amos 4:12–13). The kingdom of Israel had experienced famine, drought, blight, plagues, wars, and devastating catastrophes as God had tried to speak to His people and bring them to repentance. No matter what discipline He sent, they would not return to Him. What more could He do? He could come Himself and deal with them! “Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel!” (v. 12) was not a call to repentance but an announcement that it was too late to repent. The Lord of Hosts (armies) Himself would come with the Assyrian hordes and take the people away like cattle being led to the slaughter (v. 2). “There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst” (5:17 niv).
Amos ended his message with a doxology of praise to the Lord (4:13; see 5:8–9; 9:5–6). When a servant of God praises the Lord in the face of impending calamity, it shows he’s a person of great faith (see Hab. 3:16–19). In this doxology, he reminds us that our God is the Creator who can do anything, including making the earth out of nothing. He can turn dawn into darkness; He can tread upon the mountains, and nobody can hinder Him. He is also the omniscient God who knows what we are thinking. Thus there’s nothing we can hide from Him (Ps. 139:1–6). He is the Lord of Hosts, the God of the armies of heaven and earth!
But are God’s people any more prepared today? (Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). Be concerned (pp. 41–42). Colorado Springs, CO: Chariot Victor.)
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For though they knew Him not, yet He who formed the mountains and created the winds, declaring unto man his secret thoughts and making the morning darkness, treading on earth’s high places, was Jehovah, the mighty God of hosts (ver. 13).
Him they must meet—but how? And you too, my reader, have this before you, if still unsaved. Think well how you will stand in that great day of His wrath!
For the believer walking carelessly, this word also has an application. Taking his own way, he may despise the chastisement of the Lord, and fail to hearken to His reproving voice. But not for long can he so continue. Sooner or later God must be met, and all be solemnly gone into in His presence. Oh, then, keep short accounts with Him who knows the secrets of all hearts! (Ironside, H. A. (1909). Notes on the Minor Prophets. (p. 160). Neptune, NJ: Loizeaux Brothers.)
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Ver. 13. For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, &c.] These words are a description of the glorious Person, thy God and Saviour, to be met; he is the Creator of all things, that formed the mountains, and so was before them, as in Prov. 8:25, 26 and able to surmount and remove all mountains of difficulties that lay in his way of working out salvation for his people: and createth the wind; or spirit; not the Holy Spirit, which is increated; but either angels, whom he makes spirits; or the spirit and soul of man he is the Creator of; or rather the natural wind is meant, which is his creature, he holds in his fists, restrains and commands, at his pleasure, Matt. 8:26, 27: and declareth unto man what is his thought; not what is man’s thought, though he knows what is in man without any information, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, and can reveal them to men, and convince them that he knows them, Matt. 9:4. but rather the thought of God, the meditation of his heart, concerning the salvation of men; his thoughts of peace, which are the deep things of God, and which Christ, lying in the bosom of his Father, was privy to, and has declared, John 1:18. The Septuagint and Arabic versions, reading the words wrong, render them, declaring to men his Christ; which, though true of God, is not the sense of this clause. The Targum is, “what are his works?” his works of creation, providence, redemption, and grace: that maketh the morning darkness; or darkness morning, or the morning out of darkness; being the day-spring from on high, the morning star, the sun of righteousness, that, rising, made the Gospel day, after a long night of Jewish and Gentile darkness; and who made the same dispensation a morning to one, and darkness to another, John 9:39. The Septuagint version is, making the morning and the cloud; the Vulgate Latin version, making the morning cloud; his coming was as the morning, Hos. 6:3: and treadeth upon the high places of the earth; the land of Israel, which is Immanuel’s land, is said by the Jews to be higher than other lands; Jerusalem higher than any part of Judea, and the mountain the temple was built on higher than Jerusalem: here Christ trod in the days of his flesh, and from the mount of Olives ascended to heaven, after he had trampled upon and spoiled principalities and powers, spiritual wickednesses in high places, and when he led captivity captive. Jarchi interprets it of humbling the mighty and proud, who are compared to the high places of the earth. The Targum is, “to declare to men what are his works, to prepare light for the righteous as the morning light, who goes and prepares darkness for the wicked, that he may break the wicked of the earth;” the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name; he is the Jehovah, the Lord our righteousness, the God and Governor of the armies of heaven, the hosts of angels, and to whom all creatures on earth are subject; all power in heaven and earth belongs unto him; this is Israel’s God, his Redeemer and Saviour, he is called upon to prepare to meet. (Gill, J. (1810). An Exposition of the Old Testament (Vol. 6, pp. 496–497). London: Mathews and Leigh.)
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FROM MY READING:
“The field is the world, “but ours is not to weigh the options and look for the perfect place of ministry. Ours is to surrender to the Sower and bear fruit wherever HE plants us. (p. 54)
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The godly Christian submits to the authority of Jesus Christ and the spiritual leaders of the church and seeks to build the church by being a servant. (p. 59)
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Submission is a voluntary surrender to authority, and it’s motivated by love and not fear. (p. 59)
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Time that the church leaders should be investing in ministry is wasted in digging trenches and defending territorial rights. (p. 59)
(10 Power Principles for Christian Service by WarrenW. &David W. Wiersbe)
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Esther 7
Haman’s plot is revealed, and he is hanged.
INSIGHT
The final irony falls. Haman hangs on the gallows which he had constructed for Mordecai. Pride has come full circle; sin has self-destructed. Satan is called the deceiver and the destroyer; he deceives in order to destroy. He gets us to commit ourselves to a course of action which we think will achieve our aims, and, in the end, it destroys us. If you are on any course of action which you feel will achieve your aims—but the course of action is wrong—give it up. Unchecked, you will eventually be destroyed by it.
(Quiet Walk)
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SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR
Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. Mark 12:34
If people are not sure whether they are Christians or not, then I take leave to suggest that they are not. The Christian, according to the New Testament, is someone who can say something like this: “I was–I am.” That is how the apostle described the Corinthians, was it not–He said, “And such were some of you!” They had been drunkards, adulterers, fornicators, etc. “But,” he says, “you are not like that now–“But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God'” (1 Corinthians 6:11). The apostle Peter used exactly the same terminology: “Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy” (1 Peter 2:10). That is it!
There are variations in people’s relative positions with respect to this kingdom. Our Lord said about one of the scribes who came to him, “Thou art not far from the kingdom of God.” He did not say that about everybody, but He did say it about him. So, outside the kingdom people can be in one of many, many positions.
There are people who have never given it a thought, who have never read the Bible and are not interested in it–they do not know its barest elements. They are not interested in God, in the Lord Jesus Christ, or in the soul, and they live the kind of life that we can see all around us.
Although there are different positions occupied by men and women outside the kingdom of God, in the last analysis they do not matter at all. There is no advantage in being “not far from the kingdom.” “But,” you reply, “do you mean to say that the person who is at the very door has no advantage over the one who is, as it were, at the other end of the world?” Precisely! And that is where the devil deludes so many.
A Thought to Ponder: There is no advantage in being “not far from the kingdom.”
(From The Kingdom of God, pp. 176-178, Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones)
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Thy Word Is Settled Forever
“For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.” (Psalm 119:89)
This is the central verse in the longest chapter in the longest book in the Bible, and it is surely one of the greatest verses in the Bible. It conveys the amazing news that the Word of God (which is the theme of the entire 119th Psalm) has existed from eternity past and will continue to exist forever in the future. It was eternally settled in the mind of God before the world was created, then gradually inscripturated “at sundry times and in divers manners [as God] spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets” (Hebrews 1:1).
Other verses in this psalm likewise stress the eternal validity of God’s words: “The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting. . . . Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever. . . . Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever” (Psalm 119:144, 152, 160).
In the book of Isaiah appears a magnificent claim: “The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever” (Isaiah 40:8). This contrast is expanded by the apostle Peter: “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever” (1 Peter 1:23).
To guarantee this great truth beyond any further question, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself made the following tremendous claim: “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away” (Matthew 24:35). “Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled” (Matthew 5:18)
The entire physical universe is (literally) “passing away,” heading inexorably downhill toward ultimate death—with one exception! The words of our Bible and its glorious promises are eternal and immutable. (HMM, The Institute for Creation Research)
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