America's Famine Of TRUTH!

(Amos 8, substituting America for Israel)

Thus the Lord God showed to me:

Behold, a basket of [ripe and therefore soon-to-perish ] summer fruit.

And He said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit.

Then said the Lord to me, the END has come upon My people America;

I will not pass by and spare them any more.

And the songs of the Temple shall become wailings in that day,

Says the Lord God;

The dead bodies shall be many;

In every place they shall be cast forth in silence.

Here this, O you who would swallow up and trample down the needy,

Even to make the poor of the land to fail and come to and end,

Saying, When will the new moon festival be past, that we may sell grain?

And the sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale,

Making the ephah measure small, and the shekel measure great,

And falsifying the scales by deceit.

[Today, the Federal Reserve falsifies the value of the dollar,

Printing “funny money” at the whim of the political environment;

Ultimately making everyone poor.]

That we may buy [into slavery] the poor for silver

And the needy for a pair of sandals;

Yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat [ as if it were good grade]?

[Today the US government has enslaved its people

And especially this generation to an accumulation of a debt

That will never be repaid.]

The Lord has sworn by [Himself Who is] the glory and pride of America, 

Surely I will never forget any of their [rebellious] deeds.

[America's sin is ever before the Lord; Yet most of America is blind to it;

If it is not repented of, it will never be forgiven

And has already brought a curse upon the land;

The Lord has lifted His hand of blessing.]

Shall not the land tremble on this account,

And every one mourn who dwells in it?

Yes, it shall all of it rise like the river [Nile],

And it shall be tossed about and sink back again to normal level,

As does the Nile of Egypt.

And in that day, says the Lord God, I will cause the sun to go down at noon, And I will darken the earth in the broad daylight time. [Ezek. 32:7-10]

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation;

And I will cause sackcloth to be put upon ALL loins,

And baldness [for mourning] shall come on every head;

And I will make it as the mourning for and only son,

And the end of it as a bitter day.

'Behold, the days come, says the Lord God,

That I will send a famine in the land,

Not a famine of bread , not a thirst for water,

But a famine for hearing the Words of the Lord.

And the people shall wander from sea to sea,

And from the north even to the east,

They shall run to and fro to seek the Word of the Lord--

Inquiring for and requiring it [as one requires food]--

But shall not find it.

In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.

Those who swear by Ashimah or the sin of Samaria, and say,

By the life of your god [the golden calf], O Dan! And swear ,

By the life of the way of [idolatrous] Beersheba,

They shall fall and rise no more.' (Amos 8:1-14 AMP)

[O how numerous are your idols America; who can count them?]

[Today, America is suffering from a famine of TRUTH!

A famine of the Whole Word Of God!

America is deceived into thinking that she can do as she pleases,

As if God and His Word and His Christ did not exist;

That He is not the same God as in the day of Amos or Isaiah, or Jeremiah

Or any of the other of God's Prophets.

America is as ignorant of God as the day is long.

So she will learn the terrible lesson

Of the prideful, arrogant, godless, sinful nations that preceded her;

That have been rendered impotent or lie in the dust.]

Today, the world is raging against God, rushing toward oblivion. (Psalm 2)

Save yourself from this corrupt generation! (Acts 2:40)

As God has written, so shall it be! Hallelujah! Maranatha!