Amos 9

O the infinite power of Jehovah! Before his scepter angels veil, and prostrate themselves, kings cast their crowns at his feet (Amos 9:5). He touches the mountains and they melt.

It is a blaspheming the name of God to call him Father, yet live in sin. Such as profess God is their Father, yet live unholily, they will slander and defraud, these are as bad to God as heathens: (Amos 9:7) Are you not as children of the Ethiopians to me, O children of Israel,…

The scandalous Jews (though circumcised) were in God's account as heathens. Amos 9:7: "Are you not as children of the Ethiopians to me, says the Lord?" Alas! What is it to have the name of Christ, and want his image?

Christ's free and invisible love is a fair white web of gold, that a saint is wrapped in on the evil day. Where is he? he is hid, yet he goes through the sieve, and sifted he must be, but not a grain of him falls to the earth (Amos 9:9). 3. There have been questions about the Pr…

So Isaiah in this place shows that he propounds nothing of his own head, but only refreshes their memories with the consideration of that which God had in times past promised touching the eternity of this kingdom. By the way then, he touched that which Amos had handled more full…

The passages in which he is called "the son of David" are sufficiently well known. In a word, the angel declares that in the person of Christ would be fulfilled the prediction of Amos, "In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen," (Amos 9:11.) 33. And he…

That its royal dignity had crumbled down long before, and that by slow degrees its supremacy had nearly given way, does not imply such a discontinuance as to be at variance with Jacob's prophecy. For God had promised two things seemingly opposite; that the throne of David would…

But as Herod's dread of arousing the people against him deprived him of the use of his reason, so again he is driven by such madness, that he does not hesitate or shudder at the thought of provoking God. For he knew that, if a King were born, it was ordained by God, that he shou…

He is nowhere included, and yet nowhere excluded; His circumference is everywhere: God hath an eye in Councils, in Armies, he makes an Heart-anatomy; he sees what men's designs are, and whither they are driving. If hatred wears the livery of Friendship, if Ambition comes masked…

And this poor virgin was espoused to an husband who was a poor man. Though they were of the royal family of David, the most honourable family, and Joseph was the rightful heir to the crown; yet the family was reduced to a very low state, which is represented by the tabernacle of…

"For the seed shall be prosperous, the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give her dew, and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things." See also Jeremiah 31:12, 13 and Amos 9:13. Yea then they shall…

MEn have their winnowing dayes, and God has his; a day to separate the chaff from the wheat, the godly from the ungodly, who shall both be held up to the wind, but only the wicked shall be driven away by it. Such a day God has in this world, wherein he winnows his wheat, and sep…

O what a favor is this, that in the midst of the greatest confusions in the world, God has given such abundant security to his people, that it shall be well with them? Amos 9. 8. Ecclesiastes 8:12.

He disposes of all nations and their interests according to what is for the good of believers. Amos 9:9: in all the siftings of the nations, the eye of God is upon the house of Israel — not a grain of them shall perish. Look to heaven: angels are appointed to minister for them,…

By Jonathan Edwards, Master of Arts, Pastor of the Church of Christ in Northampton. Amos 9:2-3. Though they dig into hell, thence shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down. And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will…

Ezekiel 37:12: O my people, I will open your graves, as many as Saul and David did feed, whether they have a new heart or not, the Lord calls them his people (1 Samuel 9:16; 2 Samuel 7:8). See Psalm 50:7: Hear O my people (Psalm 81:13; Jeremiah 9:26), and so the church of Corint…

The Fathers have Church-right to Circumcision, to Baptism, to the Passover, and to the Lord's Supper, so have the Children: but it is most false of the invisible mystical body and root only, and of real and internal holiness; For neither in Old or New Testament is it true, If th…

By Jonathan Edwards, Master of Arts Pastor of the Church of CHRIST in Northampton. Amos 9. 2, 3. Though they dig into Hell, thence shall my Hand take them; though they climb up to Heaven, thence will I bring them down.