Bible ~~- Older Testament ~~- Amos ~~- chapter 9 of 9 (15 verses.)

Amos 9Wrench

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YAH Decrees Destruction On Evil North Israel
1 My Adonai [YHVH hovers,] stationed over the [religious] altar. He commands [his angels], β€œStrike [a deadly blow to] the capitol-dome! Quake the [sanctuary's] columns! Slice the [pillars] to pieces on the heads of the whole [congregation]! Sword-slay every last [evildoer]. He who flees among the [wicked] won't get away. Whoever escapes won't be saved by the [fair-weather-friends] he runs to for help.
Spherical-Capital may mean tops of pillars or lintels of doors.
2 If [sinful hypocrites] dig into Sheol {the-depths-of-the-unseen-Grave}, in Sheol My hand grabs them. Though [wicked men] rocket up into space, from space I throw them down.
This and other scriptures support the hypothesis, expressed well by C.S. Lewis in his space trilogy, that sinful man cannot establish a colony outside of earth's orbit, because earth is an inescapable prison planet for disobedient beings. This calls into question the dubious assertion that Americans briefly inhabited earth's moon during the 1960's. This verse also hints that antediluvian [pre-flood] human civilizations had superior technology, including the capability for extra-terrestrial flight. Mankind is not evolving but devolving.
3 When [sinful hypocrites] hide themselves on the summit of [mount] Carmel {Fruiting-Garden}, I search and grab them off the mountain. When [sinful humans attempt to] hide from my eyes on the sea floor, I command the serpent, and he bites them.
Sea floor = mass of humanity. Serpent = devil.
4 If [people who systemically commit injustice] flee, driven into captivity before the [scowling faces of] enemy [armies, in the land of foreign exile] I command the sword. She slays the [evildoers]. I set my eye to ruin, not help [the hypocrites].”
5 My Adonai (YHVH-over-armies) touches the land. She melts. All earth-dwellers mourn. The entire [orange, glowing, molten] earth rises up like the flooding [Nile river, πŸ˜‡]! Like the flash-floods of Egypt, [lava and liquefaction] drown [and dissolve humanity].
6 [YAH] builds his stairway to heaven. He lays his sky-arch over the foundation of the earth. [YAH] is the One calling the sea [water skyward]. Then he spills the [evaporated] waters out over the surface of the earth. YHVH is [The Creator's] Name.
7 YHVH asks, "People of Isra’el: to me, are you any different from the Ethiopians? True, πŸ˜‡, I brought Isra’el up out of Egypt. But I also brought the Philistines from Kaftor {Crete}. And [I brought the Syrians to] Aram {highland-Plateau} from Kir {Fortress}.”
YHVH is Sovereign over all nations. Anyone can become a Hebrew.
8 See, πŸ˜‡! The eyes of my Adonai YHVH [peer] inside the sinful kingdom. [YAH comes to] exterminate her from off the face of the earth. Yet YHVH promises, β€œI won't utterly exterminate [ancient] Jacob's family-line.
9 Watch! I command [angels to] jolt-to-and-fro, sifting the house of Israel in a worldwide sieve [of persecution] among all Beast-nations, like [farmers] sift corn in a strainer. Yet not the smallest [good] grain falls [to waste] upon the earth.
Yah shakes out all sin. Not one pure-hearted Israelite fails to inherit eternal life. But millions of spiritualy-impure Israelites perish forever.
10 All sinners among my people die by the sword, [even though they boast], β€˜Ruin will neither overtake nor forestall us.’
Billions of christianITEs claim they'll live forever (because they said a sinner's prayer or counted their rosaries). They instead perish, like billions of Jews and Muslims who thought that by meeting some regulations of the Sinai Code they could merit eternal resurrection.
YAH Always Restores A Repentant Remnant Group
11 [See] the [future] day, πŸ˜‡, when I rebuild the falling tent of David {Love}. I repair its breaches. I raise up [David's] demolished ruins. I re-construct [the City of Peace] as in the days of ages past.
12 [See true Isra'El] come to possess the remnant [leftover land] of [the red-man's] Edom {Southland}. See all the beast-nations come to call [themselves] by My Name. [Every survivor comes to cover themselves in My Authority],” foretells YHVH, who makes [everything] happen.
13 β€œπŸ˜‡, foresee [your] coming days [of perpetual harvest]!,” says YHVH. β€œSee the plowman overtake the reaper. See the grape-treader [overtake] the [farmer] who sows seed! See [your] mountains drop sweet wine. See all [your] hills flow [with milk, juice and honey]!
14 [Watch me] return the exiled slaves of my people who will rule with Me. [See my remnant-people] re-build their desolated, [wasted] cities. [Saints] inhabit [Israel's towns]. [Innocents] plant vineyards and drink the wine, πŸ˜‡. [See holy workers] plant gardens, and eat their fruit.
15 [Watch me] plant My people upon their [own] soil, πŸ˜‡. [In the end,] no one ever again plucks [saints] up out of the land I give them,” promises YHVH your Elohim.
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